Libya’s Tripoli-based Interior Ministry announced Monday that two of its naval vessels and their crews arrived in Malta to participate in the Dolphin 1 joint marine exercises.
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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).
The number of people who have landed in Malta irregularly by boat has declined considerably after Malta and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding on irregular migration, Malta Today reported.
Malta’s armed forces have refused to provide figures on migrant rescue operations requested by Times of Malta, claiming their publication could endanger national security.
Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants are being smuggled aboard charter flights into Libya where they get onto boats to reach Europe, according to MaltaToday.
In an interview with Malta Independent newspaper, Maltese Foreign Minister Ian Borg said he didn’t think Malta’s position is far from whoever says that there are non-safe aspects about Libya for immigration, adding that the capital closest to them, geographically, is Tripoli, more so than Rome.
Maltese police has intercepted a group of British mercenaries last Saturday in the country, who were preparing to travel to…
Times of Malta newspaper has revealed details of the seizure of 51,000 euros in cash with 4 passengers, including a Libyan, on their way to the Turkish capital, Istanbul.
The Libyan Foreign Minister of the Government of National Unity, Najla Mangoush, held talks on Sunday with her Maltese counterpart Ian Burg at the government’s headquarters in Tripoli, according to a brief statement by government-owned media platform Hakomitna.
A Turkish military aircraft conducted surveillance mission over the central Mediterranean today in the afternoon, reports Itamilradar website, which is specialized in monitoring military aircrafts.