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Senegal, Gambia, Eritrea - and many say they've been detained in the city of Sabratha...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDozens of young African men look forlornly through the iron bars of a detention centre on the Libyan coast.\u003cbr/\u003eThey're migrants from across the continent - Senegal, Gambia, Eritrea - and many say they've been detained in the city of Sabratha after attempting to reach Europe in a smuggler's boat.\u003cbr/\u003eEach year, thousands of people fleeing war and repression in the Middle East and Africa try to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the hope of making a new life in Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eMany make their way by land to Libya where they pay smugglers to ferry them to Europe's nearest shores - the Italian island of Lampedusa or the island nation of Malta.\u003cbr/\u003eLibya has been riven by turmoil and has been struggling with militias since the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.\u003cbr/\u003eTowns and cities along its thousand-mile (kilometre), largely unpatrolled coastline have become collection points where migrants mass, scrounging up the hundreds of dollars to pay smugglers for the journey.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, in the first six months of this year, 8,400 migrants reached Malta and Italy by sea. \u003cbr/\u003eAlmost all of them set off from Libya.\u003cbr/\u003eThat's almost twice the number in the first six months of 2012, UNHCR says.\u003cbr/\u003eFor some migrants, the journey ends in tragedy.\u003cbr/\u003eCrammed onto rickety boats that lack life vests and routinely require rescue, few make the crossing safely.\u003cbr/\u003eHundreds have died in a string of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this month alone.\u003cbr/\u003eAt least 365 people - mostly Eritreans - died when their boat sank within sight of Lampedusa, in one of the worst verified migrant sea tragedies in the Mediterranean.\u003cbr/\u003eFor those who avoid a watery grave, the journey often ends at a detention centre - like the one in Sabratha, a coastal city of about 110-thousand people.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials say the city is now home to about 10-thousand migrants waiting for a boat to take them the 200 miles (322 kilometres) to Malta or Lampedusa.\u003cbr/\u003eLibya's chaos since the overthrow of Gadhafi has turned the country into a prime springboard for tens of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.\u003cbr/\u003eActivists and police say human smuggling has reached the level of a mafia-style organised industry, involving the country's out-of-control militias and corrupt officials.\u003cbr/\u003eThey claim militias use their own offices as well as stores, schools and abandoned buildings as detention centres for migrants - often abusing them and holding them hostage until they receive money from the migrants' families, and demanding a cut from others in the smuggling network. \u003cbr/\u003eAmong those who crossed the vast Libyan desert in an attempt to reach Europe is Suleiman Sabari, a migrant from Senegal.\u003cbr/\u003eHe had hoped to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, but is now locked up at the Sebratha immigration detention centre.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an recent interview with the Associated Press, he said he would prefer to return home to Senegal than remain behind bars.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Police caught me and I have been here for three months,\" he said. \"The police do not respect my situation because my life is going to Europe, and if I can't go to Europe, police should take me to my home country, you see, because I am tired here, here is not good.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMusa Adabo, a Gambian migrant, echoed those thoughts.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I came to Libya to find money, to build my life, to search for greener pastures, that's why I am here,\" he told the AP. \"But I am not seeing all that because Libya is hard to live in for me. So it's even better to pass (through Libya) and go to Europe - and even go back to my country.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThere are women and children at the Sebratha detention centre, too.\u003cbr/\u003eAyshat Aziz, a Nigerian migrant, told the AP that she and fellow detainees were suffering physical abuse.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now that we're here, we don't want to stay here more and more again. Do you understand that? Because we are so suffering here, they (the jailers) are so beating us in here, and it's not right, it's not possible, it's not good, no food,\" she claimed.\u003cbr/\u003eThough some behind bars sought to cross the Mediterranean, there are others - like Sudanese migrant Bayt Alhim Zulai - who claim they had no plans to travel to Europe.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We came here (Libya) to eat, we didn't come here for problems. We have brothers, fathers and mothers in our countries who depend on us and also we have sons waiting for us. We are only looking for work,\" she explained.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They say we want to go to Europe. Why go to Europe? Here there is work, but they don't give us a chance to do good work,\" she added.\u003cbr/\u003eAmer Bashier, the head of the Sebratha migrant department, told the AP in a recent interview that the number of migrants coming to Libya had increased since the fall of Gadhafi \"because of the security weakness in the vast Libyan borders, especially the desert borders\".\u003cbr/\u003eHe told AP that there were increasing numbers of migrants reaching Libya from the Horn of Africa, including Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.\u003cbr/\u003ePeople fleeing violence in Syria are also reaching the Libyan coastline.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now we're also suffering because of our brothers the Syrians, whose numbers have increased and who also want to reach Europe,\" Bashier said.\u003cbr/\u003eFor now, Libya's government appears weak and ineffectual at coping with the influx of migrants.\u003cbr/\u003eIt has put militias on Interior Ministry or Defence Ministry payrolls in an effort to control them, but the militias still do whatever they want - even briefly kidnapping the prime minister earlier this month.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd, on the long stretch of seafront cities in eastern and western parts of the country, migrants continue to seek to passage to Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite all the dangers, the boats keep coming.\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close of African migrants looking through bars of locked door at Sabratha migrant detention centre for men\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of African migrant men looking through bars\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of migrant men at detention centre \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Suleiman Sabari, Senegalese migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I came to this country to go to Italy, but police caught me and I have been here for three months. The police do not respect my situation because my life is going to Europe, and if I can't go to Europe, police should take me to my home country, you see, because I am tired here, here is not good.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of clothes hanging on metals bars of window \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Musa Adabo, Gambian migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I came to Libya to find (make) money, to build my life, to search for greener pastures, that's why I am here, but I am not seeing all that because Libya is hard to live in for me. So it's even better to pass (through Libya) and go to Europe - and even go back to my country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of migrant men lying on mattresses\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of African migrant women behind bars at Sabratha migrant detention centre for women and families\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of woman migrant holding child\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of child in her arms\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of migrant families\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ayshat Aziz, Nigerian migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now that we're here, we don't want to stay here more and more again. Do you understand that? Because we are so suffering here, they (the jailers) are so beating us in here, and it's not right, it's not possible, it's not good, no food. Nothing, nothing, we are suffering here. For what reason? It's not good.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of women migrants\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Bayt Alhim Zulai, Sudanese migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We came here (Libya) to eat, we didn't come here for problems. We have brothers, fathers and mothers in our countries who depend on us and also we have sons waiting for us. We are only looking for work. We don't want problems. They say we want to go to Europe. Why go to Europe? Here there is work, but they don't give us a chance to do good work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of women migrants behind bars \u003cbr/\u003e16. Amer Bashier, head of the Sabratha migrant department, sat at desk \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Amer Bashier, head of the Sebratha migrant department:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Illegal immigration has increased, especially since the Libyan revolution because of the security weakness, as you know, in the vast Libyan borders, especially the desert borders.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Cutaway of his hand \u003cbr/\u003e19. 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