Category: Libya

Morocco to Airlift Sub-Saharan Migrants Stranded in Libya

December 1, 2017

In keeping with its solidarity-based African policy, Morocco will send planes to repatriate about 3,800 migrants mostly from West Africa who are currently stranded in ... Read More

Non-existence of Maghreb Union Detrimental to Regional Efforts on Migration- King Mohammed VI says

November 30, 2017

King Mohammed VI has deplored that the non-existence of the Maghreb Union has made collective efforts to tackle migration and other regional challenges ineffective. “Our ... Read More

Migration: Joint EU-AU-UN Task Force to be Set up

November 29, 2017

The United Nations, the European Union and the African Union have agreed to put in place a joint Task Force to save and protect lives ... Read More

Morocco to Repatriate Stranded Nationals in Libya

November 24, 2017

Moroccan authorities are taking the necessary measures to repatriate the migrants who are held by human trafficking networks in Libya, their crossing point to Italian ... Read More

Global Outrage at Slave Auction in Libya

November 21, 2017

Global outrage has followed the shocking video footage that has emerged claiming to show Sub-Saharans being sold at auction in Libya slave markets. The video ... Read More

Libya: Beida-based Premier stops Tripoli-Tobruk air traffic

November 21, 2017

Head of Beida-based government, which is challenging the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), has ordered suspension of all Tripoli-Tobruk flights after a UN plane ... Read More

Libya: GNA Launches Probe in ‘Slave Market’ Allegations

November 20, 2017

The Deputy Head of the UN-backed Libyan Presidential Council Ahmed Maetig announced Sunday he is leading inquiries into allegations that African migrants stranded in the ... Read More

Libya: UN Envoy Confident Rival Governments Nearing Consensus

November 17, 2017

The Head of the UN Special Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, told the UN Security Council (SC) Thursday that the country’s two rival administrations have ... Read More

Libya: UN blasts EU-backed anti-migration plan over gross human rights abuses

November 15, 2017

The UN Tuesday lambasted in a report the EU-backed plan meant to fight illegal migration in Libya over the inhuman conditions prevailing in the camps ... Read More

Libya: Royalists Want UN to Consider Constitutional Monarchy as a Solution

October 26, 2017

A group of Libyans nostalgic of the country’s past and opposed to Gaddafi loyalists are pushing for the restoration of the 1969 constitution that existed ... Read More