Migrants

Libya's coastguards have intercepted a rubber boat carrying 53 African migrants bound for Europe, including 10 women and a child, off its Mediterranean coast.Libyan Navy spokesman Ayoub Qassim said Saturday that the African migrants…

An overnight airstrike by a drone for Khalifa Haftar's forces hit Daman Camp - Tajoura migrants' detention center - leaving behind over 36 migrants killed and over 80 others injured. The spokesman for the Health Ministry in Tripoli,…

A German rescue boat has picked up 44 people that were stranded off the Libyan coast.The rescue comes a day after the same boat handed over 65 migrants to Malta.The "Alan Kurdi" vessel operated by Sea-Eye rescued 44 migrants on…

The Arab European center for human rights and international law condemned the unjustified and barbaric attack, Tuesday night, at Tajoura illegal immigrants detention center which led to more than 40 deaths and 130 severe injuries.The…

At least 80 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia. Four people were rescued from the inflatable vessel - which sank in waters near the town of Zarzis - but one died later in hospital, reports said.…

The UN Security Council failed to issue a statement condemning the bombing in Libya.The US earlier criticized the attack as "abhorrent," but did not call for a ceasefire.UN chief Antonio Guterres denounced the "horrendous" attack…

Doctors Without Borders Wednesday called for urgent evacuation of refugees and migrants held in detention centers in Libya in the wake of a fresh attack killing many of them. Prince Alfani, Libya medical coordinator of the…

UNHCR said in a statement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that the appalling toll in injuries and lives from Tuesday night’s attack east of Tripoli at the Tajoura Detention Centre speaks to the deep concerns,…

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemned in a statement on Wednesday the attack on a compound in Tajoura in which migrants were detained, which led to at least 44 deaths and more than 130 severe injuries.…

Tens of illegal migrants trying to reach Europe drowned in the Mediterranean on Friday and 100 more were sent back to Libya, the United Nations said.This happened while Italian authorities signalling opposition to more migration from…

Thousands of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers arbitrarily held in Libyan detention centers must immediately be released and evacuated to safety out of the country, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors…

Hundreds of migrants have been relocated in Libya’s capital from government-run detention centers after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups, the United Nations and aid sources said on Thursday.The migrants have been…

Two French groups operating the rescue ship Aquarius said on Saturday it was back in Libyan coastal waters for the first time since triggering a diplomatic row over migration in June. The Aquarius picked up 141 people on Friday in two…

A woman and a boy adrift in the Mediterranean died just hours before help reached their damaged dinghy, Spanish rescuers said, after finding a second woman alive in the vessel, which had been carrying migrants toward Europe, Reuters…

The Libyan coast guard on Monday stopped a migrant boat with 158 migrants aboard. These included 34 women and nine children, sources said.  The boat was intercepted off the city of Khoms, the coast guard said.The…

Italy will allow 450 migrants who were picked up from an overcrowded boat on Saturday to disembark in Sicily. The decision was taken after Italy said that France, Germany, Malta, Portugal and Spain had each agreed to take 50 migrants.…

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted 200 African migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.Spokesman Ayoub Qassim said late Tuesday a wooden boat was stopped off the eastern coast of the capital, Tripoli.Libya's coast guard has…

The U.N. refugee agency says survivors have reported that some 220 migrants drowned off the coast of Libya in recent days and is expressing shock at the mass drownings. A statement by UNHCR released on Thursday said the migrants drowned…

800 migrants in a Libyan detention center in western Libya are being held in worsening conditions without sufficient food or water, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said.Many of the migrants have been trapped for more than five months…

International efforts to release people from Libyan detention centres to Niger have hit a deadlock, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned. A senior official from the UN agency told MEPs in the…