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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has evacuated 172 migrants out of Libya to in Niger on the evening of 4 November. It was the first evacuation flight to Niger in more than a year, after the Libyan authorities lifted a blanket ban on humanitarian flights.

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92 migrants were intercepted and brought back to Libya last night after embarking on Europe-bound journey a day earlier from the western city of Zuwara, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.

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Libya’s Attorney-General Siddiq Al-Sour denied that migrants were killed by security forces in Tripoli during an anti-migrant crackdown earlier this month and claimed that such reports are “false” , according to a statement released yesterday by the attorney-general’s office.

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198 migrants aboard 2 boats were intercepted last night by the Tripoli-based coast guard and brought back to Libya where they disembarked in Zawiya and in Tripoli, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Saturday.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published its report issued on September 24, 2021, on Libya, in which it stated that a total of 24,420 migrants and refugees were intercepted and brought back to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard.

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