A new episode of the accusations saga between the Libyan coastguards and Spanish Proactiva Open Arms NGO began Tuesday as the NGO accused Libyan coastguards of leaving
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has recorded a drop in the number of migrants to Italy crossing the Mediterranean last June to 3 thousand migrants,
Italy's Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Emanuela Del Re said there is a strong commitment from her country to make Libyan sea ports more secure.
8 illegal immigrants – six children, one woman and one man – were found suffocated due to inhaling fuel inside the fish freezer container, while 90 others were rescued
8 illegal immigrants – six children, one woman and one man – were found suffocated due to inhaling fuel inside the fish freezer container, while 90 others were rescued
8 illegal immigrants – six children, one woman and one man – were found suffocated due to inhaling fuel inside the fish freezer container, while 90 others were rescued
The Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy Swing has called on the Libyan authorities to stop the detention of migrants after being r
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday that last June was the deadliest month for illegal immigrants who tried to cross the Mediterranean to EU shores
Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council Ahmed Maiteeq met Thursday with the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini at the Italian Ministry of the
The Italian news agency AKI reported that the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, announced his intention to make a visit to Libya and Niger soon.&nbs
276 illegal immigrants were rescued off the Libyan Garabulli and Al-Khumus coasts, including 29 women and 54 children onboard three boats, Libya's coastguards reported.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Illegal Immigration Affairs Mohammed al-Shibani confirmed that the ministry is to develop a plan to combat illegal im
The Libyan Navy said that the Coast Guard of the central branch managed to save 270 illegal immigrants, including 11 children and 80 women, who were found aboard a larg
The chief of the General Directorate of Coast Security of the Ministry of Interior, Bashir Bennour, met in Tunisia with a delegation from EU Border Assistance Mission i
The Libyan Coast Guard retrieved the bodies of three children, rescued 361 illegal immigrants and announced the loss of 100 others off the coast of Qarabulli east of Tripoli on F
The Italian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Danilo Toninelli, said on Tuesday that his country will provide Libya with patrol boats to assist the Libyan Coas
The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj and the Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini have agreed on a program that aims at c
The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, stated on Sunday that the alliance is ready to help Libya to rebuild their security institu
The Libyan Navy announced on Sunday that it had rescued 97 illegal migrants from four African nationalities (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia and Nigeria) off the coast of Lib
The President of the Presidential Council (PC), Fayez Sarraj, met on Sunday with the Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Peroni, to discuss the latest political situa
The Libyan Red Crescent has recovered about 25 bodies of illegal immigrants from the shores of Maya town, the Tripoli Naval Base at Abu Sitta and Khoms city.
The Libyan Navy announced on Friday that A Coast Guard patrol rescued Friday 94 illegal immigrants of different nationalities off the western coast of Libya.
The Italian news agency AKI has reported that the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior, Matteo Salvini, is expected to arrive in Tripoli on Monday for a sho
The Libyan Navy Force’s spokesman Ayoub Qassim denied in a statement the accusations of the British Daily Mail newspaper that claimed Libyan coastguards mistreated immi
The security team placed in charge of illegal immigration in the city of Zuwara arrested Wednesday 102 illegal immigrants hiding inside a camp in the city.
The head of the Libyan-Italian Committee for Combating Migration and Smuggling, Brigadier-General, Abdullah Toumia, has accused the European side of procrastination in
Libya Coast Guard said its Tajoura patrol managed Wednesday to save 82 migrants and recover one body after their boat crashed 30 miles off Qarabulli town, east of Tripoli.
The head of Maya Municipal Branch of Zawiya, Mustafa Qirisiah, said in a press statement that an illegal immigration boat sank off the coast of Maya on Tuesday afternoo
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said he had left Libya for Niger with 122 illegal immigrants released from detention centers in Tripoli.
The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, declared his intention to visit Libya and Niger in the coming period to discuss the illegal immigration file.
The Chief of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, said there should be cooperation to end the crisis of illegal immigration and the efforts should start in sources countries, add
Former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called for establishing a refugee reception camps in North Africa, and for a military operation to dismantle what he called "the
Leader of the Italian conservative party Fratelli d'Italia “Brothers of Italy” Giorgia Meloni has urged for a naval blockade on Libya to stop immigration boats from heading to Eu
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that the recent sanctions imposed on a number of human traffickers in Libya are part of a larger internation
The Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency in Tripoli said Friday that it had deported 15 illegal immigrants of Moroccan nationality to their country through Mitiga International Airpor
The spokesman of the Libyan Navy Force, Ayoub Qassim, called on the dubious NGOs' vessels at the middle of the Mediterranean to leave, saying they are profiting off imm
Major Ramzi Al-Hasi, head of the Illegal Immigration Control Agency, Shahhat branch, said, that they have succeeded to free over 70 migrants from a human trafficking gang in Shah
The Italian new interior minister from the Northern League (Lega Nord), an anti-immigrant party, Matteo Salvini, revealed that he is to conduct visits to the countries
The Illegal Immigration Agency, Tripoli branch, announced the deportation of the first group of illegal immigrants from Moroccan nationality to their country starting T