Italy launched an investigation against the Libyan Coast Guards after footage emerged last week, which appeared to show the guards firing shots on a boat full of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Libyan Minister of State for Migration Affairs, Ijdid Maatouq, discussed, with the Director of the General Department of Coastal Security at the Interior Ministry, the problems and obstacles they face and issues related to memoranda of understanding with the Italian and Maltese sides related to combating irregular migration.
The Libyan Coast Guards intercepted on early Monday morning over 250 migrants who set off to cross Libya’s shore and reach Europe, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
Forty three migrants have drowned after their boat sank off Tunisia, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Saturday. The migrants had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara and were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.