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Shocking details of how 5 Kenyans were sold as slaves in Libya

 

African migrants at a safe house in Bani Walid, Libya on December 12. For migrants who escape torture and starvation at the hands of trackers, the safe house offers them shelter and medical care.

An intelligence report seen exclusively by the Saturday Standard details the sordid journey of five Kenyans from the relative calmness of their homes to the rough and tumble world of the Libyan slave market where, together with thousands of other African immigrants, they were sold to the highest bidder.

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