Tag: Migrants

20 people found dead in Libyan desert near border with Chad

|Date: Thursday, June 30, 2022

20 people found dead in Libyan desert near border with Chad

Libyan rescue services have recovered the bodies of 20 people in the desert near the border with Chad. ...

Libyan rescue services have recovered the bodies of 20 people in the desert near the border with Chad. ...

Thursday, June 30, 2022
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IOM: 480 migrants disembarked back on Libyan shores in a week

|Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2022

IOM: 480 migrants disembarked back on Libyan shores in a week

480 migrants have been intercepted at sea and disembarked back on Libyan shores between 19 and 25 of June ...

480 migrants have been intercepted at sea and disembarked back on Libyan shores between 19 and 25 of June, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday. ...

Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Ocean Viking rescues 75 migrants off Libya coast

|Date: Monday, June 27, 2022

Ocean Viking rescues 75 migrants off Libya coast

Migrant-rescue vessel Ocean Viking, operated by SOS Méditerranée, rescued at sea on Sunday night a total ...

Migrant-rescue vessel Ocean Viking, operated by SOS Méditerranée, rescued at sea on Sunday night a total of 75 migrants, the passengers of an "overcrowded rubber dinghy in difficulty" off Libya's coas ...

Monday, June 27, 2022
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MSF urges suspension of EU cooperation with Libya over persistent migrant abuse

|Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022

MSF urges suspension of EU cooperation with Libya over persistent migrant abuse

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian NGO, has urged the European Union and the U ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian NGO, has urged the European Union and the United Nations to "urgently review – and if needed suspend – current cooperation agreements with ...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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Tunisian coast guard retrieves bodies of four migrants

|Date: Monday, June 20, 2022

Tunisian coast guard retrieves bodies of four migrants

Tunisian coast guards retrieved the bodies of four migrants whose boat sank off Tunisia, security officia ...

Tunisian coast guards retrieved the bodies of four migrants whose boat sank off Tunisia, security official told Reuters on Monday. ...

Monday, June 20, 2022
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UN urges member states to “re-examine” policies on returning migrants to Libya

|Date: Saturday, June 4, 2022

UN urges member states to “re-examine” policies on returning migrants to Libya

Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, has urged member states of the Security Council to "re-exa ...

Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, has urged member states of the Security Council to "re-examine their policies that allow interception of refugees and migrants at sea and their return to ...

Saturday, June 4, 2022
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Over 18,000 migrants arrived in Italy since beginning of 2022, says government

|Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Over 18,000 migrants arrived in Italy since beginning of 2022, says government

Italian Interior Ministry said 18,841 migrants have arrived on the coast of Italy since the beginning of ...

Italian Interior Ministry said 18,841 migrants have arrived on the coast of Italy since the beginning of this year, Aki news reported. ...

Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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727 migrants returned to Libya last week – IOM

|Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022

727 migrants returned to Libya last week – IOM

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that 727 migrants were returned to Libya afte ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that 727 migrants were returned to Libya after being rescued off the country’s coast from May 22 to 28. ...

Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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Nearly 300 rescued migrants to be disembarked in Sicily

|Date: Monday, May 30, 2022

Nearly 300 rescued migrants to be disembarked in Sicily

The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking has received the green light to disembark in Sicily, Italy 294 ...

The humanitarian rescue ship Ocean Viking has received the green light to disembark in Sicily, Italy 294 persons rescued from distress at sea. Some of the survivors have been holding out on the ship f ...

Monday, May 30, 2022
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Europe silent on plight of refugees in Libya, says IOM mission chief

|Date: Thursday, May 26, 2022

Europe silent on plight of refugees in Libya, says IOM mission chief

Europe has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands o ...

Europe has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands of migrants in Libya held in arbitrary detention in “deplorable conditions”. ...

Thursday, May 26, 2022
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