Illegal Immigrants

At least 8 migrants have drowned and 84 have been rescued after a rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said.Dozens of others might still be missing, the Spanish rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms said.…

The number of immigrants arriving in Italy from Libyan shores has dropped by a third in 2017 compared to 2016, Italy’s Interior Ministry said Sunday.The Italian Ministry said that the drop of the arrivals’ number is a result of the…

About 10000 people stranded in refugee camps and detention centres in Libya could be relocated to Europe in 2018, the Italian government said on Sunday.This initiative is going to be part of an attempt by EU countries to address the…

The Italian Minister of Interior Marco Minniti revealed on Saturday that European countries will provide Libya with 35 million euros next week to support southern borders' security. The vast southern borders…

127 Ghanaian migrants have returned to Ghana from Libya through the intervention of Ghana's government, which said it was making efforts to bring more Ghanaian nationals back home.According to the account of one of the returnees,…

Canada has condemned the alleged migrant slave trade taking place in Libya, in a statement issued Monday by the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.The Canadian PM said that targeting of desperate migrants from Africa – vulnerable…

At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast on Saturday and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli, officials said. The migrants…

Tripoli branch of the Counter Illegal Immigration Center said that Moroccan nationals held in a detention center in Tripoli started Friday an open hunger strike to protest the delay of their repatriation to their home country.The…

The UN refugee agency is seeking to open a refugee transit centre in Tripoli early next year to resettle or evacuate as many as 5,000 of the most vulnerable refugees out of Libya each year, a senior UN official said on Friday, Reuters…

The European Union will cooperate with Libya on the migrant and refugee issue, and adopt the same scenario as in the EU-Turkey migration deal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday.In March 2016, the European Union and Turkey…

A humanitarian group operating in the Mediterranean is accusing the Libyan coast guard of issuing grave threats and firing warning shots towards its boat.Proactiva Open Arms, a Catalan NGO which describes its focus as “saving lives…

Libyan coastguards rescued Monday 155 people, including 18 women and 10 children, near the capital city of Tripoli.The migrants came from several countries, including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Sudan as well as sub-Saharan Africa and…