In an article published April 12, 2017 in International Business Times, Brendan Cole reports that people are being openly sold in slave markets in Libya as they try to leave Africa and cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

Here's the article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/migrants-are-being-sold-open-slave-markets-libya-1616492

Is this part of a larger operation?

Who are the "buyers"?

How is this allowed to go on?

Cui bono?