Forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) have arrested over a thousand migrants in Tobruk and Musaid, in the east of the country, LNA’s press office announced on Wednesday.
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The Libyan border guards in charge of securing the Libyan-Tunisian borders have managed to find 14 migrants who were lost in the desert near the Tunisian border, reports the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of Unity (GUN).
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 726 migrants, including women and children, were rescued and returned to Libya during the past week.
Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, according to a UN spokesman, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them, Reuters reported.
“We live in a complicated moment, in which negative circumstances risk causing the migration issue to explode,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, warned on Thursday.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 89 migrants have been intercepted and returned to Libya during the past week.
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.
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 International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 484 migrants, including women and children, have been rescued and returned to Libya during the past week.
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.