Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stressed the need to work on stabilizing Libya in order to confront migration crisis, pointing out “we should return to the approach of Silvio Berlusconi’s previous government to manage the migration file
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The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) team said it is in Libya to verify fingerprints and facial images through Interpol databases, to arrest what it described as criminals and terrorists who are trying to hide in the flows of migrants .
The Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, said that his country seeks providing Italian police patrol boats to the Libyan Coast Guard to stop human smugglers.
The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday for the first phase of an 80 million-euro border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe has been rising, reported Reuters.
Crews aboard a humanitarian rescue ship rescued 39 people on Sunday from a small fiberglass boat adrift in the Mediterranean.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials met Sunday with the Ambassador of Niger to Libya to discuss increasing support on health, education, skills development, labour, migration and Voluntary Home Return (VHR).
U.S. Embassy in Libya “strongly” condemned on Sunday the reported killing of at least 15 migrants and asylum seekers in Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
1,216 migrants have been disembarked back on Libyan shores in the period from 21 to 27 August, 2022, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Body of an Egyptian migrant was recovered from capsized boat carrying 27 people off Tolmeitha town, east of Benghazi.
Interior Ministry of of the Libyan outgoing government said it thwarted an attempt to smuggle a group of migrants across the Mediterranean sea from Sabratha west of Tripoli.