The situation of migrants, refugees or asylum seekers in Libya continues to deteriorate. And some people are now paying traffickers to go to Libyan detention centres, which they believe will give them a better chance of being identified by the United Nations for refugee resettlement programmes.
This is the sad observation made, on Wednesday 4 December in Brussels, by Vincent Cochetel, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) special envoy for the Central Mediterranean.