Missing in Libya: what are the Moroccan authorities doing?

Concerned about the fate of their loved ones who have disappeared in Libya, Moroccan families and community workers are calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Residents to intervene with the Libyan authorities.

“My sister went to Libya in 2015 to work for a Libyan lady in her home, before a dispute arose between them, pushing my sister to go and work for another lady through a Moroccan woman,” she tells Hespress Zohra, a Moroccan woman living in El Hajeb province. Her sister Faïza has been missing in Libya for eight years. “Since 2016, we have had no news of her, and the contacts we attempted with her first employer and with the lady who had found her another job opportunity have not allowed us to determine her location or reveal her fate. (…) The family has lost all contact with Faïza and has since lived in expectation and hope for her safe return to the country,” she adds.