Libya can be great again if the world unites to glue the country back together – Telegraph.co.uk

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I was standing on the hot Tripoli dock with the head of the Libyan coastguard when he gestured at what has been for the past six years the most abject eyesore of the harbour. Look what you did, you British! he said.

This Libyan coastguard has a serious shortage of ships. Every week he and his men are out at sea, chasing down the people smugglers. Every week those loathsome human flesh-traffickers are at it again, cynically pushing people onto the waves in home-made dinghies.

It was only a couple of months ago that a furious row broke out: between the Libyan coastguard and the charities employing mercy ships to pluck people from the sea. The Libyans said the charity boats were acting as magnets for the migrants. The NGOs said the Libyans were recklessly preventing their rescue operation. All sides agreed on one thing that the Libyan navy was struggling to cope. Tripolis coastguard has...

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