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Save the Children has become the third NGO to suspend its migrant ferrying operations in the Mediterranean after Tripoli confirmed it would be blocking its waters to foreign ‘Search and Rescue’ (SAR) boats.
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The Spokesman of the Libyan Navy Ayoub Qassim said Sunday the Italian vessel, Comandante Borsini, left Tripoli Naval Base after five days of a working visit that saw Italian experts and technicians conducting a closeup
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it had opened a thorough investigation into accusations directed at the Libyan Coast Guard blaming it for attacks on humanitarian NGOs while doing their jobs in rescuing immi
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One illegal immigrant was killed as gunmen attacked a patrol for the Libyan coastguards that had intercepted 570 immigrants off Sabratha shores, Libyan Nay said Saturday.
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More than 3400 illegal migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean by the Libyan Coast Guard and the Italian Navy on Saturday, raising the number of the rescued migrants to 10.000 in the last 10 days.
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500 illegal immigrants were rescued off the Libyan coast on Thursday, said the spokesman of the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassim, adding that a patrol from the Libyan Coast Guard exchanged fire with smugglers off Matrad town, western Libya.
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Libya Coast Guard seized two oil-smuggling tankers off the country’s western coast on Friday, a navy official said.
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147 African immigrants have drowned after their inflatable boat capsized off Libya’s western shores on Thursday, Libyan Coast Guard has reported.
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