Libyan militia detains hundreds of Chadians after poachers arrested

Guards in Chad’s Zakouma national park looking for poachers. The country lost about 4,000 elephants in a decade to poachers from Libya and Sudan. Photograph: Simon Hathaway/Alamy

Hundreds of Chadians are being rounded up and detained on the streets of a Libyan town for a ninth day in retaliation for the Chad government’s arrest of four Libyan men on suspicion of poaching endangered animals.

At least 400 people have now been arrested in the city of Ajdabiya by a militia linked to the warlord Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army.