“The stabilization of Libya is essential,” Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told his country’s joint Foreign Affairs and Defense committees of the Chamber and Foreign Affairs of the Senate on Thursday.
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Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, on Sunday payed a visit to Benghazi, during which he met with the Mayor, Saqr Bujwari.
A delegation from the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Unity attended the inauguration of the BlueMed submarine cable in Palermo, Italy, linking communications between the European and African continents.
Two migrant boats carrying a total of 50 people were intercepted by finance police and accompanied to Lampedusa on Saturday, taking to 430 the total number of arrivals since midnight in 10 distinct landings.
In a recent interview with Al Ain News, Libyan security expert Abdullah Al-Tawati stated that the Italian government’s decision to…
The Italian authorities continue the policy of assigning distant ports to NGO rescue vessels for the disembarkation of survivors. Malta failed to rescue more than 7,000 people in distress in the country’s SAR zone in 2022 and reports of non-response tactics continue to mount. EU partners, Tunisia and Libya continue their pull back operations and abuse of migrants, according to European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE).
Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), met today with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome where they discussed a number of topics including “unprecedented increase” of the migratory flow towards Italy, according to multiple reports by Italian press.
The German NGO Sea-Watch has accused the Italian Coast Guard of returning around 30 irregular migrants to Libya after they…
Former Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti has warned Europe of the ongoing civil war in Sudan in a statement to…
The Italian Coast Guard denied on Sunday having asked a merchant ship, which rescued 30 migrants, to bring them back to the North African country, according to news platform Swissinfo.