A Syrian English teacher adrift on a small boat between Malta and Italy waiting to be rescued, told an Associated Press photographer of the atrocities he witnessed against asylum-seekers in Libya.

480 migrants have been intercepted at sea and disembarked back on Libyan shores between 19 and 25 of June, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday.

Last week, the UK took a collective sigh of relief when the flight removing asylum seekers for offshore detention in Rwanda didn’t take off. The morning after, pundits began commenting that the scheme was built to fail, and in fact its sole purpose was distracting from concerns surrounding the legitimacy …

In the period from 5 to 11 June 2022, 528 migrants have been disembarked back on Libyan shores, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

An Italian vessel intervened to support two Italian fishing boats on Thursday that were sailing in international waters north of Benghazi after a Libyan patrol approached them, Nova agency has reported.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that 727 migrants were returned to Libya after being rescued off the country’s coast from May 22 to 28.

Tripoli-based Coast Guard and Port Security managed in two separate operations to rescue 168 migrants of several nationalities, who were on their way to European shores, according to the Army’s Chief of Staff in Tripoli.

Four migrants were found dead and three were missing after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, the North African country’s coast guard said Tuesday.

A total of 84 migrants of different nationalities have been intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard off the coast of the city of Zawiya on Sunday, according to a statement by the coastal authorities.

The Ministry of Interior of the Government of National Unity received on Monday, two out of six naval boats equipped with the latest technology from Italy.