The European Union on Sunday announced a 7.4 billion-euro ($8 billion) aid package for cash-strapped Egypt as concerns mount that economic pressure and conflicts in neighboring countries could drive more migrants to European shores.
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The Bangladesh Embassy in Libya has learned from various sources that most of the nine migrants who died in the fire incident on the Tunisian coast while traveling to Europe by sea through Libya were Bangladeshi citizens.
In a joint press conference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, both leaders stressed…
More than 1,300 irregular migrants died at sea or went missing trying to reach Europe from Tunisia in 2023, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday.
The bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sank on Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia having set off from Sfax, a Tunisian judicial official said on Thursday.
The Nigerian Government, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has successfully evacuated 327 stranded Nigerians as well as those released from detention facilities in Tripoli, Libya.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) – Libya Chief of Mission has discussed with the Ambassador of Pakistan to Libya the return of stranded Pakistani migrants in the North African country.
The Tunisian National Guard said on Tuesday that about 40 Tunisian migrants were missing after sailing in a boat toward the coast of Italy last week.
Human Rights Watch called on Lebanon Tuesday to release a son of Libya’s former dictator Moamer Kadhafi, saying he had been held on “spurious charges” for eight years.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Friday, posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix to Angela Moira and Philip Antonis Mandalio, the volunteer interpreters who lost their lives during the Greek humanitarian mission in Libya on September 17, 2023.