Libya signs borders control agreement with southern neighboring countries

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    • Libya signs borders control agreement with southern neighboring countries

      Libya’s Foreign Ministry announced that Libya had signed an agreement with its southern neighboring countries Niger, Chad and Sudan to secure the joint borders against human trafficking and weapons smuggling.

      The Foreign Minister Mohammed Sayala signed on Thursday in the capital of Chad N’Djamena the agreement which will help jointly secure the borders, according to the ministry’s statement.

      “Libya is working on supporting joint relations between the four countries and is keen to support all efforts to combat terrorism, transnational organized crime, smuggling of all kinds, illegal migration, mercenaries, arms smuggling, and smuggling of all kinds of subsidized commodities and petroleum derivatives." Sayala said, according to the statement.

      Libya has lately announced the launching of a new operation to combat IS remaining militants and to fight the threats to the security and chaos caused by criminals, smugglers and human traffickers.

      https://www.libyaobserver.ly/news/libya-signs-borders-control-agreement-southern-neighboring-countries
      #Niger #Soudan #accord

    • Subject: Sudanese Rapid Support Forces as beneficiaries of EU funds

      The Sudanese government has deployed its militia, the #Rapid_Support_Forces (#RSF), at the borders with Libya to prohibit irregular migration and combat human trafficking. The RSF’s crimes against humanity and war crimes are well documented (i.a. by the International Criminal Court). Amnesty International reports that the Sudanese government may also have used chemical weapons against civilians in Darfur in 2016.

      The EU cooperates with the Sudanese government in the area of migration, notably through the project ‘Better Migration Management (Khartoum Process)’ and, according to the relevant Action Fiche, provides i.a. capacity building support to front-line officials. The Action Fiche lists ‘provision of equipment and trainings to sensitive national authorities diverted for repressive aims’ as a risk. However, it does not indicate any direct mitigation measure to address this.

      1. Are the RSF direct or indirect beneficiaries of EU funds in the context of this or any other project?

      2. Does the EU consider the RSF eligible for future EU capacity-building projects in support of security and development (CBSD)?

      3. Why are there no direct mitigation measures to counter the serious risk inherent in this project, and how will the EU ensure compliance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and prevent complicity in serious human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity?

      http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2016-007564+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
      #processus_de_khartoum