Maggie Michael, investigative reporter, Cairo; Lori Hinnant, enterprise reporter, Paris; and Renata Brito, video journalist, Barcelona, were first to follow money given to Libya to prevent migration, and what they found was startling: The money has spawned a web of thriving and highly lucrative businesses that profit off the misery of migrants – funded by the European Union and enabled by the United Nations. The AP team came to this conclusion through interviews with more than 50 migrants and confidential information from internal United Nations emails and high-level sources, including senior Libyan officials. https://bit.ly/2QGAuBH
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AP: EU money funds businesses that profit off migrants
Prudence Aimee, 30, from Cameroon poses with her children, from left Ange, Wifrid, 1, and William, 3, aboard the humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking in Italian waters, Sept. 23, 2019, hours before disembarking. Aimee left Cameroon in 2015 and spent nine months at Libya's Abu Salim detention center where she saw “European Union milk” and diapers, delivered by UN staff, pilfered before it could reach migrant children, including her toddler son. Aimee herself would spend two days at a time without food or drink.
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