The European Union (EU) defended on Tuesday its record of helping to relieve the suffering of immigrants in Libya, after UN-backed investigators accused the EU of abetting human rights abuses and o
Algerian police announced Wednesday the dismantling of an international network that works in smuggling illegal immigrants to Europe from Syria and Lebanon, passing through Benghazi in eastern Liby
The Italian Ministry of the Interior revealed statistics showing that Libya ranks second after Tunisia in the number of boats of illegal immigrants sailing to Italy, Italian Nova News Agency has re
A boat carrying over 40 migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast while a cargo ship was trying to save them, Italy's coast guard confirmed on Sunday.
The Minister of Interior of the Government of National Unity, Emad Trabelsi, has supervised, with his Italian counterpart, Matteo Piantedosi, the “launch of the work of an Italian-Libyan task force
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has detected more than 13,000 cases of illegal border crossings at the external borders of the European Union in January.
The Libyan Ambassador to the European Union, Jalal Al-Ashi, has discussed with the Head of Mission at International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Brussels, Ralph Genetzke, migr
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani described the agreement to deliver five ships to Libya, funded by the European Union (EU), as the right option to address the immigration problem, according
An Italian Coast Guard official said that 2022 witnessed the arrival of 53,000 illegal immigrants via the Mediterranean from Libya, which was an increase of 70%.
The former Italian parliament member, Giuliano Pisapia, called for appointing a permanent European representative in Libya, urging for putting pressure on the Libyan authorities
The European Union's Frontex agency said that the number of attempts by immigrants to enter the European Union states without a permit amounted last year to about 330,000 attempt
Italian sources said that Rome had recently sent an important security delegation to Tripoli, led by police chiefs, to meet with the Interior Minister-designate of the Government
Libya's Coast Guard has interception a vessel carrying around 700 migrants off the eastern coast of Libya in one of the largest operations in recent months targeting migrants des
Authorities in Niger have arrested a 29-year-old Libyan national suspected of leading a ring smuggling African migrants from Niger to Europe, a source from the French police has
Misrata's Municipal Council received, on Wednesday a delegation representing UN agencies to discuss cooperation in the illegal immigration file within the framework of the humani
The Libyan Designated Interior Minister Emad Al-Trabelsi reviewed to an Italian security delegation the security plans issued by the Ministry of Interior related to the file of i
The Government of National Unity (GNU) discussed with Somalia the deportation of Somali immigrants from Libya and the return of the General Secretariat of the Community of Sahel-
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed that the Libyan Coast Guard has intercepted 23,000 illegal immigrants since the beginning of the year until
The Minister-designate of Interior Affairs, Emad Al-Trabelsi, requested Italian support for the ministry's plan to fight illegal immigration, adding in a meeting with the Italian
The Law Enforcement Force said that it had clashed with an armed group working in human trafficking in front of the beach of Sabratha, adding that its units spotted a suspicious
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has stressed the need to work on stabilizing Libya in order to confront migration crisis, saying the approach of Silvio Berlusconi's previ
European interior ministers welcomed Friday a European Union plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals with Libya and Tunisia, after a furious row over a refugee
A team of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) is visiting Libya to train staff at the centre for illegal immigrants in the use of the (BIOSLED) device, whic
The European Union (EU) signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday for the first phase of a border management program worth 80 million euros, at a time when Egyptian migration to E
The Geo Barents ship of Doctors Without Borders has announced the rescue of more than 260 migrants who were aboard 4 boats in the Maltese search and rescue area, who set off from
The Italian Ministry of Interior announced on Friday, that the flow of illegal immigrants from Libya has increased by 75.8% since the beginning of 2022, considering that the cont
Patrols of the Tasks Department of the General Directorate of Security Operations managed to thwart a smuggling operation of migrants across the shores of Al-Qaraboli area, east
The Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Attorney General's Office Ali Zubaida told reporters that security authorities had arrested the second suspect in the killing of immigrants of
The Presidential Council on Monday held an expanded security meeting to discuss the killing of a group of illegal immigrants in Sabratha, west of Tripoli.
Washington and the UK have joined the UN Support Mission In Libya in its call on the Libyan authorities to investigate the killing of 15 migrants in Sabratha.
The Interior Ministry has opened an investigation into the death of 15 migrants in Sabratha who, according to locals, died in a dispute between two groups of people smugglers.
The Maltese Home Affairs Minister, Byron Camilleri, told The Malta Independent on Sunday that Armed Forces of Malta saved thousands of lives over the years.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has said that the incident of apprehending 287 Egyptian migrants, including more than 90 children, in a warehouse in Tobruk should dra
25 Egyptian migrants coming from their country have disappeared after a boat sank in the Mediterranean off Talmitha coast, eastern Libya, the Tolmitha Maritime Rescue Unit stated
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the allocation of 37.2 million euros, to contribute to the stabilization of illegal immigration flows in North Africa, the S
The European Union (EU) and Niger have launched a joint partnership to fight the smuggling and trafficking of migrants and prevent their influx to neighboring Libya, whose shores
The latest update of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed that more than 9,000 migrants were returned to Libya between January and June 2022, including
The Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of a gang consists of 21 Pakistani nationals involved in smuggling illegal immigrants across the Libyan coast to southern Italy.
The Kufra Ambulance and Emergency Service has announced the recovery of 20 bodies of irregular migrants, all of whom died of thirst after their car broke down in the middle of th
The “Alarm Phone Project” which is affiliated with the “Watch the Med” said on Monday that the Libyan coast guard had intercepted a migration boat carrying more than 110 people,
286 Sudanese have returned to Khartoum airport during the past two days from Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk, within the framework of the voluntary return program and the joint init
A joint patrol of the Naval Special Forces, the Coast Guard, and Port Security in the Zawiya Refinery has rescued 12 irregular migrants from the sea after eight days of being str