In a joint statement released on Wednesday by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the two agencies expressed their sadness at the tragic event, the first of 2021 in the Central Mediterranean.

32 Libyan civil societies have lambasted the “poor performance” of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) following the death of a Somali refugee in Tripoli.

As the death toll from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean continues climbing, in the Horn of Africa Ethopia’s Tigray region is unraveling into deadly violence between the central government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that almost 12 thousand illegal migrants were stopped in the Mediterranean and returned to Libya.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that 11891 illegal immigrants who tried to flee Libya were intercepted or rescued and returned so far this year, compared to 9,225 in 2019.

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Libya has called for the release of refugees and asylum seekers in Libya.

More than 150 Ghanaian migrants have been brought back from Libya through the first charter flight of its kind since COVID-19-related border closures, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Libyan Red Crescent on Sunday recovered 5 migrants bodies from the sea near the city of Misurata, some 250 km east of the capital Tripoli.

The Director of Security Directorate of Gharyan city, Brigadier General Omar Al-Khadrawi, held discussions on Wednesday with his counterpart in Jafara district, Brigadier General Abdul Nasser Latif, regarding the return of the Gharyan displaced people, who have property in Sahil Jafara.

The Minister of Defense of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Salah Al-Namroush, discussed with the Minister of Interior and National Security of Malta, Byron Camilleri, along with his accompanying delegation, methods to support the search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.