Illegal Immigrants

Libya’s coast guard says it has rescued 60 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the Mediterranean coast.Spokesman Ayoub Qassim says the migrants, including 19 women and four children, were rescued after their…

The International Organization for Migration said that its voluntary repatriation program in Libya is unable to keep pace with the alarmingly high number of migrants in government detention centers wishing to go home.The U.N.…

Spanish rescue boat “Open Arms” arrived in the southern port of Algeciras on Thursday with 87 migrants the crew said they had rescued off the coast of Libya.The charity Proactiva Open Arms operates in the sea between Libya and…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that an estimated number of 680,000 illegal immigrants were identified in Libya till May 2018."In May 2018, IOM Libya identified 679,897 migrants in Libya from 42…

Libya’s coast guard picked up 574 migrants from inflatable boats in three operations on Monday off the North African country’s coast, naval forces spokesman Ayoub Qassem told Reuters.He said the migrants included 388 men, 66 women and…

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted 40 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, near its shores, bound for Europe.Coast guard spokesman Ayoub Qassim says a boat carrying 31 men, eight women and a child was stopped on Saturday off…

8 illegal migrants, including six children, were found dead on Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, the Libyan Navy said.90 ,ore immigrants, who were recovered from…

Dozens of migrants are missing after a rubber boat they were on sank off the coast of Libya, local officials say. One official is quoted as saying 63 migrants have disappeared after Sunday's incident east of Tripoli, while 41 people have…

The bodies of three babies have been recovered after a boat carrying around 120 migrants capsized off Libya.The country's coastguard says about 100 of them are missing at sea and feared dead.Another 16 people who had been on…

Libya's coastguard has rescued nearly 1,000 migrants who were on boats in distress in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe, the navy said on Monday.Three separate operations took place on Sunday with the coastguard…

Libya’s navy recovered the bodies of five migrants while they rescued more than 100 after their vessel sank near the country’s coast, the navy told AFP on Monday.Libyan rescuers took three hours to reach the sinking rubber…

Libya's coast guard has intercepted more than 150 migrants, including women and children, in the Mediterranean Sea.The coastguards said  two boats were stopped Saturday off the coast of the western Zuwara district and the capital,…

More than 100 east African migrants escaped from a camp in the Libyan town of Bani Walid where they were being held hostage and tortured, international agencies and local sources said on Saturday, May 26.The migrants from Eritrea,…

A surge in migrants and refugees intercepted at sea by the Libyan authorities has seen at least 2,600 people transferred, in the past two months alone, to squalid detention centres where they face torture and extortion, Amnesty…

More than 70 migrants, including three children, were rescued today off the coast of Libya as the Aquarius, chartered by the NGOs SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders came to their aid.An AFP photographer was aboard the…

The Libya interior ministry on Wednesday revealed a plan to restrain illegal immigration."The Ministry is implementing an integrated plan involving all security services to confront illegal migration through sea and land, in order…

UNHCR has resumed evacuation of migrants from Libya with a flight of 132 mostly Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers to Niger for resettlement in third countries.The group left Tripoli’s Mitiga airport on Tuesday but the aircraft had a…

17 Nigerian survivors of a 2017 migrant boat sinking have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights accusing Italy of violating their human rights by “subcontracting” their rescue to Libya. The case, backed by legal and human…

The Libyan coastguards intercepted Sunday hundreds of migrants, including women and children, in the Mediterranean Sea. Libyan Navy announced that three boats were stopped on Sunday before leaving the Libyan territorial waters off the…