Last week, the joint Sudan-Libyan forces announced that they have freed 112 Sudanese from the hands of human traffickers and migrant smugglers and seized six large trucks with vehicles at the border between the two countries.
This operation is the first announced by the joint forces between Sudan and Libya since the fall of the ousted regime of President Omar al-Bashir last April.
The Sudan News Agency quoted some of the freed hostages as saying that they had been threatened by human trafficking gangs and blackmailed to pay 2 million pounds per truck for their release.
It is noteworthy that the Sudanese army forces, arrested , on 25 September, 13 migrant smugglers and human trafficking gangs, and stopped 120 irregular migrants on the border with Libya.
Sudan is fighting the phenomenon of human trafficking, which has doubled in recent years, on its eastern border with Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as its northwest border with Libya.
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