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.
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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.
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), on Tuesday, said it evacuated 117 irregular Nigerian migrants from Libya, according to News Agency of Nigeria.
Sea-Watch, a German non-governmental organization that operates in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct rescue operations for migrants, released on Wednesday footage in which the Libyan Coast Guard appears to threaten to shoot down the NGO’s plane “by some missiles”.
Italian activists gathered in front of the headquarters of the Italy-Libya Chamber of Commerce to demand revocation of their country’s 2017 memorandum with Libya.
Libyan authorities have arrested two people in connection to the killing of at least 15 migrants in Sabratah.
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemned “the heinous killing” on Friday morning of at least 15 migrants and asylum-seekers in Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
Libyan rescue workers have recovered at least 15 bodies found on the coast in Sabratha including a number burned in a boat and others on the beach, a member of the Red Crescent in the city said on Friday.
121 migrants were disembarked back on Libyan shores in the period from 25 September to 1 October, 2022, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Rescuers said they found four bodies on a migrant boat off the Canary Islands Sunday, just hours after a lone…