{UAH} Burkina Faso recalls ambassador to Libya over “slave markets” report

MICHAEL OCAYA P'OCURE,

Will Uganda Also Recall Arab Ambassadors To Protest About The Enslavement And  Barbaric Mistreatment Of Ugandans In Countries Like Oman, Saudi Arabia. UAE, And Qatar? Nearly 500 Ugandan Citizens Have Been Murdered Or Reported As Having "Committed Suicide" In The Middle Eastern Muslim Arab Countries In The Last 10 Years Since The Rwandan Outlaw Kayibanda Museveni Began Exporting Slave Labour To These Barbaric Countries.

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Burkina Faso recalls ambassador to Libya over "slave markets" report

Minister of Foreign Affairs Alpha Barry of Burkina Faso in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Minister of Foreign Affairs Alpha Barry of Burkina Faso in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 19, 2016. REUTERS

Burkina Faso's foreign minister said on Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Libya over a report that black African migrants were being auctioned as slaves there.

The decision comes after CNN broadcasted footage of what it said was an auction of men offered to Libyan buyers as farmhands and sold for $400, a chilling echo of the trans-Saharan slave trade of centuries past, Reuters reports.

Foreign Minister Alpha Barry announced the decision by President Roch Marc Kabore in a news conference."The president of Burkina Faso has decided to recall the ambassador to Tripoli, General Abraham Traore, for a consultation," Barry said.

He added that he had also "summoned the Libyan charge d'affairs in Ouagadougou to express our indignation at these images that belong to other centuries, images of the slave trade".

African and European leaders are due to meet in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan next week, where migration and Europe's efforts to tackle it by co-opting Libya will be high on the agenda.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said last month that a European and African deal to stem the flow of migrants coming through Libya to Europe had failed to tackle the severe abuses they face.

A study by the UNHCR revelled that movements by sea from Libya to Europe, have increased and are likely to rise, despite being the most dangerous route for reaching the continent.

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