Libyan Interior Minister of the UN-backed government, Al-Aref Al-Khoja (L) speaks at a press conference in Tripoli, Libya, on Nov. 23, 2017. Al-Aref Al-Khoja on Thursday said the government has improved living conditions of the country's immigration housing centers. (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)
TRIPOLI, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Libyan Interior Minister of the UN-backed government, Al-Aref Al-Khoja, on Thursday said the government has improved living conditions of the country's immigration housing centers.
"Everyone knows the political complexities and economic conditions in the country. However, the Ministries of Health, Foreign Affairs and the Anti-Illegal Immigration Department have, with available means, made great efforts to improve conditions of illegal immigration housing centers," Al-Khoja said in a press conference on Thursday in Tripoli.
The Interior Minister believes that addressing the issue of illegal migration cannot be solved by Libya alone, "but with planned cooperation of Africa and the EU."
A recent CNN report showed auctions in different parts of Libya, where stranded African migrants were sold as slaves for as little as 400 U.S. dollars.
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in a statement on Wednesday condemned slave trade of African migrants in western Libya, calling on the Libyan government to "address comprehensively this outrage to the conscience of humanity."
