Recent data issued by the Italian Ministry of the Interior revealed the arrival of 47,300 irregular migrants from Libya, since the beginning of 2023.
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ATHENS, Greece — One woman died and 19 people were rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized off an islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast Friday, Greek authorities said.
Political instability in Libya is one of the major drivers of weapons trafficking in northern Nigeria, reports the United States Africa Command.
Ghana Embassy in Libya, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on 26th October facilitated the repatriation of the fourth batch of 169 Ghanaians from Tripoli to Accra under the Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) program for the year 2023, the Embassy announced.
Hundreds of migrant boats landed in Lampedusa on Sunday, taking the number of people at the Italian island’s migrant hotspot up to around 800.
A delegation of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), headed by First Deputy Speaker Fawzi Nuwairi, has attended a parliamentary summit to combat terrorism and violent extremism in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
Some 245 migrants landed at Lampedusa Sunday after being rescued Saturday night by three tax police launches and a Frontex vessel from a 20-metre fishing boat that had left Zuara in Libya and was at risk of capsizing in heavy seas.
The United Nations Refugee Agency has announced that from the beginning of January to September 24, 2023, more than 2,500 refugees on their way through the Mediterranean Sea have either lost their lives or remain missing.
President of the Libyan Presidential Council (LPC), Mohamed Al-Menfi, offered condolences to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, the government and the brotherly Moroccan people for the victims of the painful earthquake, stressing his confidence that Morocco will overcome the effects of this disaster.
A group of officers, supported by the Americans, from General Abdourahamane Tchiani’s inner circle, but questioning his authority, intend to facilitate the intervention of ECOWAS. Their objective is to legitimately bring themselves to power and thus put an end to any solution for the return of President Mohamed Bazoum to the helm of Niger.