The Libyan Anti-illegal Migration Department deported Thursday more than 200 undocumented migrants to their countries of origin.
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European interior ministers welcomed Friday an EU plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals, after a furious argument over a refugee rescue boat erupted between Italy and France, AFP reported.
Greek authorities say a dilapidated fishing boat crammed with migrants that was towed to port after losing steering in rough seas south of Crete was carrying a total of 483 people who had sailed from Libya.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said 235 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the period of 13 -19 November 2022.
Benghazi Security Directorate managed to seize a human smuggling network to Italy that includes suspects of Libyan, Sudanese and Bangladeshi nationalities.
The Bangladeshi security services have arrested a member of an international human trafficking gang for his involvement in the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya in 2020.
International Organization for Migration IOM met Thursday with a delegation from the Gambian and the Libyan offices of Migrants Forum in Asia (MFA) to discuss collaboration on migrants protection, according to IOM.
As a standoff between a humanitarian migrant rescue ship and the Italian government continues into its fourth day, a leading Italian bishop has criticized the “selective” process of allowing some migrants to disembark, while turning others away.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), have urged European governments to swiftly offer a place of safety and allow the immediate disembarkation of nearly 600 people who remain on NGO vessels after being rescued in Maltese and Libyan search and rescue (SAR) zones on the Central Mediterranean.
Responding to the authorities’ decision to refuse some people the ability to disembark in Catania, Sicily, and efforts to push them back to sea, Julia Hall, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director at the Europe Regional Office, said Italian authorities must urgently allow all people on ship to disembark as soon as possible.