Human rights groups have criticised a deal between Italy and Libya aimed at curbing migration. They say it has led to even more appalling conditions for people hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

Libya’s top prosecutor says criminal groups are smuggling Libyan fuel on board fishing vessels to Europe.

The United States has issued a new round of sanctions targeting oil smugglers in Libya aimed at blocking exploitation of natural resources that is driving instability, the US Treasury Department said on Monday.

Tripoli-based Special Deterrence Force (SDF) attacked on Wednesday the Sahara Bank in the coastal district of Al-Maya in Wershiffana, some 27 west of Tripoli, and killed commander of the armed group controlling the bank.

Despite the European Union and Libya cutting a deal last February to prevent people from making the perilous journey to Europe, over 3,000 migrants and refugees perished at sea in 2017. A year later, Libya holds thousands of migrants captive under terrible conditions while others still die at sea, according to an Oxfam report published …

At least 23 illegal migrants were killed and 124 were injured as the truck that was smuggling them on the road to the south of Bani Walid town crashed.

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has commended the Attorney General’s decision to issue arrest warrants for more than 144 accused fuel smugglers in the western region of Libya.

In recent months, it has been revealed that African migrants and refugees have been sold in open markets as slaves in Libya, and are held against their will in inhumane conditions in exchange for ransom money.

The Libyan authorities on Tuesday freed a group of Sudanese migrants that were being held and tortured by suspected human trafficking gangs.

The African Union (AU) announced on Sunday that it will investigate recent videos showing Sudanese citizens being tortured in Libya.