The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports.
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uropean Union lawmakers on Thursday approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the yearslong standoff over how best to manage migration, a conundrum that has provoked one of the bloc’s biggest political crises.
An order of 2,500 bulls which had been placed with a southern-based cattle exporter has been cancelled due to a delay in getting the purchaser’s visa approved, according to a report by Irish farming news website Agriland.
The civil rescue ship Humanity 1 operated by the non-governmental organization SOS Humanity was navigating to the Emilia Romagna port city of Ravenna on Thursday after rescuing 69 migrants and refugees from a small rubber dinghy adrift in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Wednesday night.
The General Command of the Libyan Army declared today that reports accusing the Libyan army of providing support to one…
The head of the Military Organization and Administration Authority in southern Libya, Abdelsalam Al-Busaifi, has warned that the ongoing clashes…
Reaching a consensual and comprehensive legislative framework for elections in Libya is the only path towards lasting peace, said Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
“The stability of Libya and its neighbors is a priority for France,” stated the French embassy in Libya today following a briefing by U.N. Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily at the Security Council.
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity and other Libyan authorities are “cracking down on nongovernmental domestic and foreign organizations,” Human Rights Watch said today, calling on the government to withdraw “onerous registration and administration requirements and ensure that civic groups are free to operate.”
“UN mediation paired with a strong and genuine political will by Libyan leaders are the keys to establish a basis for elections,” U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said today following a briefing by Abdoulaye Bathily.