Efforts by the Libyan police force to clamp down on human trafficking and illegal immigration have yielded a major breakthrough in the outskirts of Libya. The discovery of a human trafficking network, led by an unidentified smuggler, has resulted in the rescuing a large number of Somali nationals kidnapped in Libya, mostly women and young men, who have been held captive for over 15 years in small houses. The squalid conditions in which the group