Last Saturday, Hadim Mbye, a 31-year-old migrant from The Gambia, boarded a small rubber dinghy together with over 130 others at a beach close to Tripoli in Libya. They had almost no supplies, expecting to…
WASHINGTON — Bodies of 13 African migrants have been found inside a shipping container in western Libya. Officials of the Red Crescent in Libya said the victims appeared to have been locked inside the container…
Libya’s Red Crescent has said that 74 bodies of refugees have washed ashore in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea. The aid organization’s spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati told the AP news agency that…
One hundred and sixty-one Nigerians, who have been stranded in Libya voluntarily returned to the country yesterday on board an Airbus 329 with registration number Nouvelair TS-INB. The returnees journey back to Nigeria was facilitated…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — European Union leaders at a summit in Malta on Friday embraced a plan to stem a relentless flow of smuggled migrants through Libya toward the continent, insisting the approach will save…
After several days at sea, the migrants spotted land, thinking it was Italy. Several drowned trying to swim ashore. But when the survivors reached dry land they found they were still in Libya. The treacherous…
A joint report launched today by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) citied “unimaginable” human rights violations and abuses of migrants…
Libyan authorities deported 157 illegal African migrants on Thursday. The migrants are mostly from Mali and were hoping to make it to Europe via the Mediterranean. The deportations were organized in cooperation with the International…
The deputy leader of Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has resigned on Monday. Musa al-Koni announced his resignation which he says is as a result of failure by the administration in Tripoli to…