UN calls for rescue operations after 43 immigrants drown off Libyan coast
Following another deadly shipwreck off the coast of Libya that claimed 43 lives on Monday, the UN migration and refugee agencies have called for countries...
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Death toll from shipwrecks in Libya coast rises to 100
The death toll from Thursday’s shipwrecks off the coast of Libya has risen to 100, the UN migration agency said Friday in a statement. The...
Libya shipwreck: At least 74 migrants killed
At least 74 migrants have drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya, the U.N.’s migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at...
Nearly 1,000 migrants intercepted and returned to Libya in 3 days
Within three days, Libya’s coast guard intercepted 935 migrants in the Mediterranean and returned them to Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM)....
10,000 illegal immigrants Rescued Off Libya in 2020
On Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced that a total of 9,839 illegal migrants have been rescued off Libya’s coast in 2020. In...
IOM Reports Repatriation of 160 Migrants to Libya
A reported 160 migrants in the night between Sunday and Monday were taken back to Libya by coast guards, a spokesperson for the International Organization...
Libya says it detains men suspected of burning Nigerian to death
Three Libyans killed a Nigerian man by setting him on fire in Tripoli, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, in what a U.N. agency described...
UN: Boat capsizes near Libya, migrants presumed dead
The U.N. migration agency said Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, leaving at least two...
Three Returned Migrants Shot Dead On Libya Coast
Three Sudanese migrants have been killed and four others have been wounded in a shootout on Monday night in Khums, east of Tripoli, the International...
Malta rescues 95 migrants from sinking dinghy
Malta’s armed forces have rescued a group of 95 migrants found in distress on a dinghy north of Libya and brought them ashore at a military base...