A total of 552 migrants were intercepted at sea and returned to Libya from 24 to 30 August 2025, according to IOM report.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) facilitated the voluntary humanitarian return of 148 migrants from Libya to Chad on Tuesday.
From 17 to 23 August 2025, 366 migrants were intercepted at sea and returned to Libya.
Government representatives from Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and Tunisia participated in a three-day table-top simulation exercise (SimEx) in Cairo, organized by the WHO and IOM.
The bodies of three sisters aged 9, 12, and 17, from Sudan, were disembarked on Lampedusa on Saturday, along with 68 migrants rescued by a Franco-Italian-German-Swiss migrant rescue NGO ship off the coast of Libya.
From 10 to 16 August 2025, a total of 491 migrants were intercepted in the Central Mediterranean and returned to Libya, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio lashed out Friday at a federal judge who intervened to halt the deportation of a planeload of sex offenders and murders, saying his meddling has done severe damage to U.S. foreign policy, is hurting America’s humanitarian mission and even sparked new fighting in Libya, according to Washington Times.
Two children, aged 3 and 4, and an adult died during a Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy on a frail boat whose engine gave way, a German aid organization has said.
A boat carrying migrants has capsized off the coast near Harawa, close to Sirte in Libya. At least 11 people have died, including four Pakistanis.
Unlike the escalating migrant crisis in western Libya, the country’s eastern Cyrenaica region has seen negligible outflows of irregular migrants…