Italy’s flag carrier, ITA Airways, resumed direct flights to Libya’s capital, Tripoli, on Sunday, being the first airline from a major West European nation to do so after a 10-year hiatus due to civil war in the North African country, the company and Tripoli’s transport minister said.
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Italy has received 157,551 irregular migrants through several migration routes crossing the Mediterranean during the past year, including 51,986 migrants coming from Libya, according to an Italian security report.
An Italian medical team has begun performing scoliosis surgeries on muscular dystrophy patients at the Misurata medical center in Libya.
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi arrived in Benghazi on Tuesday where he met with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA).
Italy and with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed agreement to facilitate and promote the participation of youth and persons with disabilities in Libya’s electoral process through the High National Elections Commission (HNEC).
The Libyan-Italian Chamber of Commerce reported yesterday that it had held meetings, led by its chairman Anwar Abu Sitta, with the Milan and Brescia Chambers of Commerce in Italy. Abu Sitta was accompanied by a group of businessmen affiliated with the Chamber.
After the resumption of civil air links between Romee Tripoli, Italy could also restart flights with Benghazi, the capital of the eastern region of Cyrenaica, Nova Agency reported.
More than 80 migrants were saved, but two died and three were missing following two sea rescue operations in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Sunday.
Italian authorities are currently investigating two Libyan militants: Abdel Rahman Milad, known as Bija and ahis cousin Osama al-Khuni Ibrahim, both of whom are accused of human trafficking, torture and other crimes against migrants.
Italy’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest judicial authority, has ruled that handing over refugees and migrants rescued in the Central Mediterranean to the Libyan coast guard is a crime because the north African country is not a safe port.