The European Union’s obstruction of nongovernmental rescues and handover of responsibility to Libyan coast guard forces is a recipe for even greater loss of life in the Mediterranean and a continuing cycle of abuse for people trapped in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.
A charity rescuing refugees from the Mediterranean has filed a manslaughter complaint against a cargo ship and the Libyan coastguard, claiming it failed to help refugees on a destroyed dinghy.
The European Union’s migrant strategy has suffered a major setback with Italy refusing to freely accept people rescued at sea and Libya spurning a proposal for asylum processing centres.
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 a woman and a child die onboard a boat of immigrants in the sea.
Libyan women activists, bloggers and journalists are increasingly being silenced as they face gender-based violence in the form of physical assault, abductions and sexual violence, as well as smear campaigns, gender-related slurs and attempts at intimidation, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Proactiva Open Arms, which has been rescuing refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe, says the Libyan coastguard has left at least two refugees to die after abandoning them at sea.
The Security Directorate of Tripoli revealed their security plan to ensure the safe conduct of examinations of the secondary certificate in the city, which are due to begin next Saturday. In a statement published on its account on Facebook, Tuesday, the Directorate confirmed that the plan will be carried out …
Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said his country is up for more investments in Libya, especially a kind of an economic partnership to aid Libya in infrastructure, hospitals and other fields.
French charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said the European response to accepting hundreds of refugees trapped in Meditarranean limbo over the weekend was “not a victory”. Both Italy and Malta refused to allow the Aquarius, carrying 629 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya, to dock, before Spain offered safe harbour …
Forces loyal to Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar yesterday declared their control of new districts in Libya’s eastern city of Derna, where battles are taking place against the Derna Protection Forces (DPF). The announcement came in a statement by the Special Forces affiliated to Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) on Facebook.
