Libyan militia detains hundreds of Chadians after 4 Libyan poachers arrested in Chad
Source: The Guardian
Libyan militia detains hundreds of Chadians after poachers arrested
At least 400 Chadian workers rounded up in east Libyan town of Ajdabiya after security forces in Chad arrest four Libyan poachers
Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Fri 16 Sep 2022 17.36 BST
Last modified on Fri 16 Sep 2022 18.25 BST
Hundreds of Chadians are being rounded up and detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals.
At least 400 people have now been arrested in the city of Ajdabiya by a militia linked to the warlord Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army.
Earlier this month the Chadian authorities arrested four men from Ajdabiya for entering the country illegally and poaching a rare species of antelope. It is understood that the Libyans are part of a network that has been poaching in the north-east of Chad for years.
A security source in Libya told the Guardian that at least 400 Chadians had since been arrested by the Ajdabiya brigade, led by Ayoub Issa al-Ferjani, Khalifa Haftar’s son-in-law.
“The campaign is still going on,” the source said. “It can reach a point where ties with Chad will be cut if anything happens to the four Libyans.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/16/libyan-militia-detains-hundreds-of-chadians-after-poachers-arrested
