plan has been drawn up at a joint african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear how the deal be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries but the reports from. the theme of this summit was huge but there is no doubt the from the outset it was dominated by the issue of the refugee slave trade in libya and by migration we heard from. the president of the ivory coast in the beginning who said that everyone had a collective responsibility to do something but at the end of the summit leaders decided is that they would try and repatch. migrants and refugees that are trapped in libya and want a task force to try and crack down on people smuggling and we spoke to many people here who said that that is just a case of firefighting and what is really needed is a long term strategy to deal with migration. for anything other than african and european union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traffickers and urgently repatch rate anyone who's trapped there the fun is on fire. there ar

the plan has been drawn up at a joint u. african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent mainly to their home countries reports from. for a lot of the work that african and european union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traffickers and urgently repatch rate anyone who's trapped there the fun is on fire. there are women and children living in inhuman conditions we have agreed along with the e.u. and the un to set up a task force for repatriating at least three thousand eight hundred people the. leaders say there are more than forty refugee camps in libya where people are bought and sold by those with little respect for human life. well the leaders here have committed to helping refugees in libya there were very few do tells us exactly how and when they will repair create them and they were also very frank about the new task force they say they'll put in place to combat people smuggling. there was also no mention of the french president

. migration dominated talks between leaders from the african and european union's in the ivory coast capital abidjan is the first time the two organizations have come together and just about to reports from their. it was the host of the summit the president of the ivory coast who set the tone allison what torah said it was totally unacceptable that in this day and age refugees were being traded as slaves in libya. this is disgraceful drama reminds us of the darkest hours of humanity i call on our collective sense of responsibility to take urgent action many refugees in libya are in detention centers where conditions are appalling others are bought and sold by those with little respect for human life the slave trade in libya has shocked and embarrassed leaders in both africa and europe and it has injected a sense of urgency into this summit we have to think there is a very critical issues and across this like in libya and that's why i want to finalize before the end of this summit a very great initiative between the african union and european union. leaders on both sides are expected to launc

. african union summit in ivory coast libya's un back to ministration has joined the agreement but has limited control over the territory where the migrants are being held it's not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back mainly to their home countries. we took firm decisions on the immediate evacuation of refugees setting up a committee led by the african union's commission on human rights assisted by the european union pursuing smugglers of human beings and we consider this smuggling a crime against humanity also the various countries must put in place special forces to fight against smugglers of human beings many of those refugees gathering in libya are trying to find their way to europe with those who do manage to make it across landing in greece a surge in the number of people arriving on the island of lesbos is severely straining emergency facilities the conditions are so dire that some refugees are resorting to self harm in the hope of being taken out as jenna hall now reports in the third part of our series from that's false. in a busy cafe

work more closely with africa to address illegal migration of ivory coast's leader says urgent measures are needed to end migrant slave trading and reports from. a migration there has really dominated the first day of this summit in abidjan i think the sense of urgency was really underlined by the fact that all of the leaders where they spoke about opening statements each of the mentioned migration and the tone was really set earlier on not by the president of the ivory coast where this summit is being held because he talked about libya and the trading of refugees various slaves and he really said that this is totally unacceptable and everyone here has a collective responsibility to do something about it not just a bit earlier i spoke to the fridge present tomorrow my call and what he told me was that leaders here want to try a north an initiative a strategy to try and tackle the situation in libya to help evacuate some of those refugees that are trapped but it is interesting also that earlier we heard from the u.n. secretary general and what he said is what he said the solutio

first joint summit on the ivory coast with migration top of the gender. and the pope calls for reconciliation in myanmar but again stopped short of referring specifically to go ahead. hello it's been raining in china not unusual you might think but this is on season we shouldn't have any significant rain in this part of chinatown the but there has been the still will be that's drawing up a little by the time we get to friday but still we haven't talked in the winter wind to be honest it's still twelve in shanghai the rather dismal twelve and twenty four in hong kong rain has been significantly heavy in tamil nadu in sri lanka as you might expect that's correct just on the even here we've had quite a bit falling nothing much elsewhere in india that's correct it should be dry is a breeze stirring up the atmosphere be a good sing in new delhi where equality of course is still the issue the potential development of a tropical depression here just the us is for like a couldn't house the rain even more in the next day or so so flooding seems quite likely even this time of year for th

lagos it's part of a deal signed in ivory coast last month that summit of african and european union leaders now the agreement followed revelations that african migrants trying to reach europe were being sold as slaves in libya now these ambien president has called on the military to help fight a cholera outbreak that's killed at least forty one people in the capital lusaka. says the emergency measures are needed to try to stop the epidemic from spreading including closing some markets more than one and a half thousand people have contract with the disease since september. in the third her vassar is looking ahead to twenty eight teams who we report from zimbabwe voters will head to the polls after a series of extraordinary events all the military force long time leader robert mugabe to resign many hope the outcome of the election will help improve the economy and boost zimbabwe's standing on the world stage or will toss a has more from harare. after decades of economic stagnation high unemployment and a shortage of cash people hope things will get better in twenty eighteen robert mug

. these are repatriated to the ivory coast from libya so they risk being sold into slavery oh it's not really about this so africans over there in libya they sell men even fifteen year old libyans are there in a car they're armed the coming kidnap you and the cell you for seventy two one hundred fifty dollars and then others will resell you think they're going to leave soon as you arrive in libya the first thing that happens is that you are taken away and sold our black brothers from west africa wherever you are from a million a cynical ease or any other nationality from the west even ibori and you are sold and for what seven hundred dollars. but these margins will tell you that life is so hard in their home country that it's worth almost any risk to make a new start in europe now with the advent of the smartphone and with facebook and others pushing into africa a youngster can meet a smuggler in two seconds on the phone now that nothing is being done to challenge that they think they're following a dream to europe they end up in the mall in the grip of these repay shoes smuggler despi

guinea ivory coast gambia senegal sudan and somalia and the power vacuum in libya after the fall of moammar gadhafi has made human trafficking and people smuggling smuggling a booming trade in the european union's renewed strategy to stop migrants and refugees traveling across the mediterranean has led to more people being stuck in libya without money or food mike hanna is at the united nations headquarters in new york so mike why is is france calling this debate now. well actually that's a good question a week ago today the u.n. security council are cast a resolution condemning this a slave trade in libya however france clearly felt that this was not enough along with some other members so it is called again this emergency session which is taking place at the moment france making clear that it wants to push things a little bit further wants to discuss exactly how to end this trade what kind of punitive measures should be taken against those individuals and entities responsible for what it describes as these barbaric acts and crimes against humanity this is what the outgoing preside

europe and africa holding their first joint summit it's taking place in the ivory coast they say it will herald a new partnership but there's growing concern that aid to africa is being used to block refugees and migrants instead of being used for development let's get more on this from the tasha butler who is in abidjan for sana tasha fair to say migration very much at the top of the agenda at this summit right now. yes well the leaders are just arriving and shortly they will begin this summit and when they do get down to business there is no doubt that migration will be one of the issues which really dominates their talks it comes at a time when so many people still trying to absorb the fact that refugees are being traded to slaves in libya and what officials on both sides have told us is that we can expect some sort of initiative or plan from the a.u. e.u. partnership to try and tackle those prices to try and evacuate many of those refugees who are trapped there also questions over e.u. aid because it's linked to all this because some people are saying that the fact that much of

in ivory coast outspent by french president mandela follows the outcry over a video apparently showing african migrants being sold as slaves in libya. they handover of power in gaza has been postponed rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah agreed to ask egypt for the delay a mosque is due to transfer power of the gaza strip to the palestinian authority by friday as part of reconciliation deal both sides accuse the other of not respecting the deal keep it here faultlines is next in the more news. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the way. al-jazeera. donald trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute and i will faithfully execute it's been just over a year since start of trump won the us presidential elections and shook the country and its political system to the core. between the unpredictable statements and tweets it's.

of an african union leader in ivory coast the announcement by french president emmanuel micron follows an outcry over a video apparently showing african migrants being sold as slaves in. the reporting now from the summit in abidjan. well at the end of this summit we are expecting a joint statement by europe in an african leaders that will announce the creation of an anti slavery task force and i want. this task force will be used to save and protect refugees as they travel to tree roots in africa and in particular in libya will also be used to speed up the voluntary return for refugees to their countries of origin and help identify possible asylum seekers there is no doubt that the issue of slavery and migration absolutely dominated the agenda here at the summit in abidjan but there is a lot of concern amongst those who say that perhaps the approach their leaders are taking is not the right one that they are quick fixes over a long term solution and more needs to be done to really address the root causes of why people are leaving home in the first place. but the new president o

monument. four day trip to africa which will also take him to ivory coast and ghana this was a highly anticipated speech in which is expected to talk about a new kind of politics as he seeks to break away from neo colonialism across the african continent you know this war is basically aimed at boosting france's regional influence in africa and also as you heard the president talk a little bit about there stemming the flow of migrants from africa into europe. the french president speaking again to eight hundred students at the university of wanted to go and this will be followed by a question and answer session by the audience there let's bring in our correspondent on the line from wanted to go. this is a speech that's been highly anticipated because everyone of course recalls the controversial speech former french president nicolas sarkozy gave in dakar a few years ago talking about france africa relations and everyone expecting my call to hit the reset button if you will between france and africa what has he said so far any what is his message basically to the african countries. well