Libya: Tracing the ‘Continuum of Violence’ Between Nigeria and Libya

How the movement of people from Edo State fuels the Libyan conflict economy

Despite being thousands of miles apart, Libya and Edo State in southern Nigeria are connected by a centuries-old route for trade and the movement of people. Since the outbreak of conflict in Libya in 2011, it has become a major route for human-smuggling and -trafficking.

This research paper traces the movement of people along that route and reveals a transnational ‘continuum of violence’, connecting structural violence in…