In the forty years before 2011, Libya was a peace heaven, a place in which immigrants of African nations could seek refuge for its thriving standards of living and prosperous economy, not to mention the surge in development projects that were carried all over the country and which required massive human resources and manpower. African migrants of the Subsaharan region endeavored to cross the vast and precarious desert at times on foot. They took laborious Manuel jobs that did not require education like plummeting and construction. One of their biggest concentrations was the southern city of Sabha wherein these desperate migrants worked in farms, road repairs/building, and construction. Despite the strenuous nature of these jobs and the often high temperatures characterizing this part of the world, they incurred no violence of the degree they experience today. They were paid wages which covered their living expenses and other sums which they took back home whenever they left aboard one of those trucks seen in the picture.
( I.T.O )
