At least 13 Europe-bound African migrants, including three women and one child, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea when their rubber boat capsised Tuesday off the coast of Libya, the U.N. migration agency said.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) yesterday said it had rescued 575 immigrants off the Libyan coast in separate operations over the past few days.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday the return of 154 immigrants from Bangladesh to their homeland on a chartered flight, which took off from Benina Airport in Benghazi.

At least 11 migrants died on Sunday when their boat floundered off the coast of Libya, the UN’s migration agency said, days after 20 others died in desperate bids to reach Europe.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 15 illegal migrants drowned on Wednesday off the coast of Sabratha.

Libya’s internationally recognized government says it has detained a former coast guard commander sanctioned by the United Nations for human trafficking and accused of sinking migrant boats.

On Friday (9 October), international medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), called for the immediate release of 60 people being held in captivity by armed men in Sabrata, western Libya.

It was just before dawn on 11 September when Stephen Donkoh was rescued alongside 113 people off the coast of Libya. They had already spent two days and three nights adrift on a rubber dinghy when the Open Arms humanitarian rescue vessel spotted them in the pitch-dark night. Many said …

Radio France Internationale (RFI) said Khalifa Haftar has been using his private plane, Falcon 900, for money laundering and smuggling gold out of Libya.

A Nigerian migrant worker was burned to death by three Libyans in the country’s capital, UN and government officials said on Wednesday, in the latest of a string of abuses that migrants and refugees have faced in the conflict-ravaged country.