Ambassadors of the European Union and the Member States accredited to Libya held joint meetings today in Tripoli with a number of high Libyan officials including Chairman of the Presidency Council Faiez Serraj, President of the High Council of State Khaled Meshri, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Siala, and Minister …
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Europe’s shameful failure to end the torture and abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya
Farah, a young man from Somalia, his wife and newborn daughter had been at sea for 12 hours when the Libyan coastguard intercepted their dinghy. The couple had fled Libya after enduring several months of torture in a hangar where Farah was beaten and his wife raped in an attempt …
Read More »Refugees in Libya ‘tortured’ for breaking out of detention centre
As many as 30 refugees and migrants, including minors, are believed to have been brought to an underground cell and allegedly tortured in Libya for breaking out and holding a protest earlier this week.
Read More »Frontex: 87% drop in migrants from Libya
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, (Frontex) announced a decline in the number of irregular migrants last year via the Mediterranean route towards Italy, 80% compared to 2017.
Read More »EU blacklists Libya for money laundering and terrorism financing
The European Commission has placed Libya on a list of countries which have “strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks.”
Read More »African Union seeks conference on Libya, elections in October
The African Union on Monday called for a global conference in July to try to resolve the conflict in Libya, with the aim of holding elections in October.
Read More »African Union head calls for international Libya summit
The chairman of the African Union Commission on Sunday called for an international conference on Libya to chart the way forward for the troubled country.
Read More »‘Complicit in tragedy’: EU urged to end migrant returns to Libya
Oxfam and 43 other organisations have accused European Union governments of being complicit in the “tragedy” of migrants crossing from Libya to Italy, saying more than 5,300 people had died in the Mediterranean in the past two years.
Read More »Libya: 20,000 migrants held in detention centres
Some 800,000 illegal migrants are currently in Libya, 20,000 of whom are held in government detention centres, according to the head of the Libyan President Council Fayez Al-Sarraj.
Read More »MSF: Number of migrants returned to Libya “appalling detention centers” growing
Over the past two weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Libya have observed a sharp increase in the number of people held in detention centers in Misrata and Khoms.
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