Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 152 Nigerian returnees from Libya through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, NEMA Zonal Coordinator for South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
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The Italian coastguard is carrying out operations to rescue two boats carrying a total of 1,200 people, it said on Monday, after a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa over the weekend, Reuters reports on Monday.
Human Rights Watch has criticized the U.N. Human Rights Council for not insisting on accountability for abuses committed against migrants by EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday that it had rescued 440 migrants from an overcrowded fishing boat in international waters off the coast of Malta, after trying to carry out the rescue for more than 11 hours
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday 344 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the past week.
Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman said she was convinced Rwanda was a safe country to resettle migrants who had arrived in Britain illegally but she declined to set any deadline for the first deportations to the country.
Ocean Viking, a European rescue ship operated by SOS Mediterranee, saved on Saturday afternoon 92 migrants who were on board an overcrowded and deflated rubber boat in international waters off Libya.
Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU) Foreign Ministry responded Saturday to the report of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya on violations against migrants, saying that migrants detention centers’ reality requires international support, and GNU should not be left alone in this regard.
The European Union on Tuesday defended its work with migrants in Libya after U.N.-backed investigators accused the 27-nation bloc of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes in the north African country.
Despite treacherous conditions at sea, record numbers of migrants are setting off from North Africa to reach the European Union. This weekend alone, nearly 5,600 people arrived on Italy’s southern coasts, reported InfoMigrant website.