The President of France, Emmanuel Macron has revealed that France and other EU leaders are strongly considering taking military actions to tackle the human traffickers in Libya.
Macron who revealed this in a interview with a local news agency also stressed that "the traffickers are smuggling people from the Sahel region to the Mediterranean coast, from where they were sent on their way to Europe and Thousands have perished in the sea".
"We are proposing to take police and military action. We are not waging war but this is a country in a political transition," he told France 24.
Macron revealed that he has contacted German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on the possibility of taking military actions in tackling the human trafficking menace in Libya.
Officials of concerned European countries and the AU are currently in a meeting in Abidjan, the capital of Cote d'Ivoire to discuss the issue and possible solutions.
The 2011 Civil War in Libya that ousted their leader Muamar Gaddafi has left a lawless Libya in its wake and has left Libya without a central authority and created a big humanitarian crises in the North African country.
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