The IOM believes the people were migrants who died in the process of being smuggled through the desert in Libya. The bodies of at least 65 people have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the United Nations’ migration agency has said. In a statement on Friday, the…
Closure comes as Libya says ‘outlaws’ attacked the Ras Jedir border crossing. Tunisia and Libya have closed a major border crossing at Ras Jedir due to armed clashes, according to Tunisian state TV and Libyan authorities. Libya’s interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that “outlaws” had attacked the…
With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach in Africa. Russia, in the form of the private military contractor (PMC) Wagner, has been a growing presence in Libya since at least 2018, when…
Libya’s Interior Minister Imad Trabelsi says the groups will leave capital after 10 people were killed over the weekend. Armed groups in Tripoli have agreed to leave the Libyan capital and to be replaced with regular forces, the country’s interior minister said, after a spate of deadly clashes. “After a…
Much of Libya is bone-dry desert but one Mediterranean coastal town is suffering the opposite problem – its houses and fields have been inundated by a mysterious upsurge of groundwater. Stagnant water and squishy mud have flooded houses, streets and palm groves around the northwestern town of Zliten, spreading a…
Mediterranean Sea – In the pitch-black hours of early Thursday morning, the Humanity 1 rescue ship approached a sky-blue wooden boat in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea. On board were at least 126 people who were suffering from hypothermia, dehydration and exhaustion from clinging to the boat for hours…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organization for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying about 86 people. At least 61 refugees and migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a “tragic” shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. The organisation’s Libya office early…
Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. A shadowy Libyan armed group accused of unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention and enslavement, with alleged links to Russia’s Wagner Group, has been forcibly returning refugees with the help of European authorities, a new investigation has found. On several…
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