Seven African and European leaders are meeting in Paris on Monday to discuss ways to stem the flow of migrants into Europe from northern Africa. French President Emmanuel Macron has invited his counterparts from Niger and Chad as well as
The Libyan navy said Monday it has seized an oil tanker near the maritime border with Tunisia and detained the 20-member Filipino crew on suspicion of fuel smuggling. Navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem said the vessel was intercepted on Sunday
Libya’s prime minister has demanded the European Union (EU) helps his nation build an electrified fence along its open southern border to help stem the flow of migrants headed for Europe.
Before he was elected president, Donald Trump frequently expressed frustration with America’s longest war.
The number of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly declined in the last few weeks and many are giving credit to efforts by the Libyan coastguard. Others have criticised their methods.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (AFP) – On board the Aquarius, one of the last NGO ships still operating off the coast of Libya, rescuers are worried they are not seeing any more boatloads of migrants at sea.
Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms has criticised the Libyan coastguard after they fired warning shots near one of their rescue vessels looking for migrants off the Libyan coast.
The Libyan coastguard claims that since Friday it has intercepted over one thousand migrants in various boats attempting to head for Europe and returned them to the Libyan mainland.
Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter ordered his naval forces to confront foreign ships entering Libyan waters without military permission. The ships most likely to be confronted are Italian boats sent at the request of Libya’s internationally-recognized civilian government to help manage the migrant crisis.
Libya’s strongest warlord has issued a warning to Italian ships being deployed to help turn back migrant boats inside the country’s territorial waters.
(AP) — Italy’s ambassador to Libya says his country’s naval mission to thwart migrant smugglers is going ahead despite threats.
CAIRO (AP) — The commander of Libya’s self-styled national army in the country’s east has ordered naval and air forces to confront any vessel entering the country’s territorial waters without permission, after Italy began a naval mission to help stem a popular migration route at the behest of the U.N.-backed government in the west.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is capitalizing on the chaotic situation in jihadi breeding ground Libya, establishing a new stronghold in the North African nation as U.S.-backed local troops in Iraq and Syria push the terrorist group out of their territory.
Several major migrant rescue NGOs working in the Mediterranean have refused to sign a proposed “code of conduct” developed by the Italian government which could limit their access to Italian ports.
MILAN (AP) — Italy is putting its hopes for managing the migrant crisis on a new, Libya-requested mission to support the North African nation’s coast guard despite suffering a rebuke by humanitarian groups.
Jordan’s parliament on Tuesday scrapped a controversial article in the penal code that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim.
Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron nationalizes shipyard to keep Italy out; France-Italy tensions grow over Libya and refugees; France bypasses Italy in a deal with Libya; North Korea launches another ballistic missile
ORLÉANS (FRANCE) (AFP) – France will set up processing centres in Libya for asylum seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday. “The idea is to create hotspots to avoid people taking crazy risks when
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is “trying to regroup” in Libya following its defeat at the end of last year in its former stronghold of Sirte, a coastal city located a few hundred miles from the shores of Europe, revealed a Libyan militia, echoing the U.S. military.
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni says sending Italian naval units to help Libya’s coast guard could be a “turning point” in combating migrant trafficking.
The corpses of Islamic State-linked foreigners killed while defending the group’s former stronghold of Sirte remain in freezers, while Libya’s authorities negotiate their fate with other governments nearly seven months after U.S.-backed Libyan troops defeated the terrorist organization in the coastal city.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is allowing members to restrict sales of inflatable boats and outboard motors to Libya in an effort to stop dangerous migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean. EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to allow member countries
Contents: EU countries refuge to help Italy deal with massive refugee crisis; Italy considers a ‘code of conduct,’ and possibly the ‘nuclear option’; Italy’s ‘nuclear option’ would force other countries to absorb refugees
With a flood of migrants arriving on Italy’s shores, a bitter debate has erupted over whether children born on Italian soil to foreign parents should have citizenship rights at birth.
Between Wednesday and Thursday, the Italian Coast Guard coordinated more than 20 rescue operations off the coast of Libya, bringing some 4,100 African migrants to Italy.
European Union member states have agreed to pay 100 euros a week to new recruits in the Libyan coastguard to boost the number of officers to tackle people smuggling.
President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering expanding the United States’ involvement in jihadi sanctuary Libya amid concerns that Russia’s foothold in the North African country is growing.
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti plans to fly to Libya later this week where he is expected to meet with mayors of various Libyan cities to discuss bringing an end to people smuggling in the country.
Britain’s specialist Counter Terrorism Police unit has released a new short film that simulates a terror attack abroad — repeating the controversial ‘Run, Hide, Tell’ advice launched in December 2015.
Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa
The Russian-backed chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), former Gen. Khalifa Hafter, announced that his armed group has totally liberated the eastern city of Benghazi from jihadists groups, a move that extends the reach of the territory under his control, announced the Libyan strongman.
The extended deadline for Qatar to meet a list of 13 demands imposed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and other neighboring states passed on Tuesday, without any sign of compliance from the embattled emirate. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir accordingly announced on Wednesday that the boycott will remain in place.
A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of terror offences Friday, nearly seven weeks after the Manchester Arena attack which saw 22 killed. The otherwise unidentified male was arrested at Liverpool John Lennon airport, although officers did not say whetrher he was
Migration from Libya to Europe has increased in the last year, is expected to increase further, and consists overwhelmingly of young men, who are mostly economic migrants, a new United Nations study has found.
Qatar, Sudan, and Turkey are supporting terrorism in war-ravaged Libya, considered a breeding ground for jihadists, according to a spokesman for the Libyan army.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the highest ranking African prelate in the Vatican, said it is high time to “close the tap” of African immigration into Europe, which has reached new records in recent days. Asked about recent rumblings that Italian authorities
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that the new US ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries was “truly shameful”.
The Trump administration moved quickly on Monday’s partial victory in the Supreme Court’s ruling that let stand most of Executive Order 13780’s temporary travel ban on residents of six Muslim majority countries by establishing strict rules for visa applicants that narrowly defined the Court’s “bona fide relationship” qualification.
Italy’s migrant welcome centers are in a state of “collapse” as huge waves of African migrants take advantage of the temperate climate to make the crossing from Libya to the Italian peninsula.
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders pledged Friday to boost their support for conflict-ravaged Libya as the number of people fleeing Africa on crowded, unsafe boats for better lives in Europe continues to rise.