Weeks earlier, Saif Islam Gaddafi’s team sent a letter to the Russian president and a top foreign policy official asking them to support the established road map for Libyan reconciliation and all citizens’ involvement in the settlement process. However the letter didn’t specify candidates that intend to run for the …
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EU to establish new HQ in Libya and Tunisia for border governance and security reform
The European Union (EU) have chosen Tripoli and Tunisia as the HQ of the governing board for borders and reform of security services in Libya.
Read More »92% drop in migrant numbers arriving in Europe
Italy has recorded an 80 per cent drop off immigrants reaching its costs compared to 2017. The number of clandestine immigrants arriving in Europe in 2018 fell by 92 per cent, compared to the peak of immigration rates recorded in 2015.
Read More »‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown
This confrontation at sea was not a simplistic case of Europe versus Africa, with human rights and rescue on one side and chaos and danger on the other. Rather it’s a case of Europe versus Europe: of volunteers struggling to save lives being undercut by European Union policies that outsource …
Read More »Proximity to ‘Islamist Hotbeds’ Libya, Algeria Makes Morocco Vulnerable – Ex-MEP
Early last week, two female Scandinavian backpackers were killed near a path up to peak Toubkal, a popular hiking destination in Morocco. One of the victims was beheaded, while another sustained serious neck wounds. The case is being investigated as a terrorist act.
Read More »Libya migrants scribble on prison wall: ‘People were sold here’
On the walls of Souq al Khamis migrant detention centre in Khoms, a port city in northwest Libya, warnings of new arrivals are scratched on a grey wall.
Read More »EU expands duties of EUBAM to secure Libya’s borders
The European Council adopted a decision mandating the EU integrated border management assistance mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya) to actively support the Libyan authorities in contributing to efforts to disrupt organised criminal networks involved in smuggling migrants, human trafficking and terrorism.
Read More »EU extends Operation Sophia for 3 more months
The European Union has agreed to extend Operation Sophia off the Libyan coast for three coming months.
Read More »UNHCR: 114 migrants resettled from Libya to Canada and Norway
The United Nation Higher Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that it has helped resettle 114 immigrants from Libya to Norway and Canada in the first week of December.
Read More »European Council says Libya needs a national solution away from military operations
The European Council said it had adopted conclusions on Libya in a meeting on Monday. The council welcomed the outcome of the Conference for Libya hosted by Italy in Palermo on 12 and 13 November 2018, which followed the Paris Conference held on 29 May 2018.
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