International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday that 1,088 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the period of 25 – 31 December 2022.
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A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants was intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya, the coast guard said.
Italy will allow the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship to dock at an Italian port and disembark 113 people rescued from the waters of the Mediterranean, a French NGO said Tuesday.
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said Monday.
A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a “repressive and inhumane” government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp, AFP reported.
90 migrants were rescued on Tuesday morning by Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), after they left Libya the day before.
Fourteen (14) illegal migrants from Syria, Tunisia and Libya were detained by the Burgas gendarmerie near the Sredets village of Draka, Burgas region, according to Novinite, Sofia News Agency.
Italy welcomed on Wednesday 114 migrants from Libya as part of a ‘humanitarian corridor’ organised by Christian charities, with members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightist administration saying they supported legal migration channels.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said a total of 20,842 were rescued and returned to Libya so far in 2022.
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Ahmad Khan is seeking a number of arrest warrants against Libyan nationals over war crimes, crimes against migrants and crimes against human rights.