“Half of the people in Garabulli is still in this business; nothing has changed after the agreements with Italy.”

The United Nations said most armed groups involved in human trafficking in Libya have links to the country’s official security institutions.

The spokesman of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous operation Mohamed Al-Ghusri told Libyan Express Sunday that Libyan displaced communities’ return must all come in one package, commenting on the return of Tawergha IDPs.

The Libyan authorities on Tuesday freed a group of Sudanese migrants that were being held and tortured by suspected human trafficking gangs.

Work was resumed at the Ras Ajdir border crossing between Libya and Tunisia on Saturday, one day after deadly clashes left two people dead.

Libya’s Interior Ministry of the UN-backed government has approved to recruit 500 new members of the diplomatic security service responsible for protecting foreign embassies and missions in Libya, according to a security official on Monday.

The spokesperson of the Libyan Navy Forces, Ayoub Qassem, said, in a press release, that the CNN TV report on slave trafficking in Libya was a fabrication and a false accusation. He added that Libya is doing its best in fighting the illegal migration.

The Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Faraj Egayem has been detained by the forces of Libya’s eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar in Al-Marij town after the townsmen handed him over to Haftar’s General Command, sources told a Libyan local TV on Wednesday.

The Chief of the General Directorate of Coast Security at the Libyan Interior Ministry, Colonel Tariq Sahnbour, has warned of international media reports and campaigns promoting the existence of a slave market in southern Libya.

A former interior minister and a journalist are among an as yet unknown number of supposed supporters of the Government of National Accord (GNA) deputy interior minister Faraj Al-Gaem who have have been arrested in the past 24 hours in Benghazi.