103 migrants, including women and children, have been evacuated from Libya to Rwanda on Thursday night, announced the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday.
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Twenty-three Nigerians with minor medical cases and 151 other Libya returnees, on Tuesday, arrived Nigeria.
Dozens of migrants were rounded up in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday in the country’s latest crackdown.
Tunisian authorities said Monday they intercepted or rescued over 200 migrants trying to reach Europe by sea at the weekend, including an entire extended family from the economic crisis-hit country.
Libyan authorities said Saturday they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan, the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe via perilous journeys through the conflict-wrecked nation.
Tripoli Coast Guard has intercepted 340 migrants on board two boats at sea on their way to Europe.
116 migrants have been disembarked back on Libyan shores in the period from 31 July to August 6, 2022, according…
56 migrants, on a 10-meter boat that left Zawia in Libya, were rescued at dawn, about 3 miles from the coast of Lampedusa, by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza, according to Italian news agency Ansa.
35 migrants had to spend the night at sea, after Maltese authorities refused to save them and instead turned to Libya to intervene, humanitarian non-governmental organization Alarm Phone reported on Friday.
A European Union drone is helping Libyan forces intercept boats carrying migrants in the Mediterranean, who are then “hauled back to arbitrary detention and abuse”, according to Human Rights Watch.