Libya has become one of the main transit countries for irregular migration from Africa to Europe and a hub for human trafficking in the Mediterranean. Over the past 15 years, the North African country was rocked by two major waves of armed conflict. In 2011, the uprising that unfolded during the Arab Spring overthrew Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, while in 2014 a multi-front conflict broke out between militias — the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), and the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar. Although large-scale military operations declined since 2020, the country’s political and territorial fragmentation has persisted, and Libyan society continues to operate under severe economic, humanitarian, and security burdens.
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