Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted Monday four inflatable smuggling boats carrying in total over 500 illegal migrants. The captured migrants, off coast of the North African country, were returned to their Libyan departure point. In 2017, about 119,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy from across the Mediterranean while more than 3,100 died making the crossing, […]
The “MENA Diplomat of the Year 2023” award was granted to Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hakim Hajoui, during the 13th edition of the Diplomat magazine’s awards ceremony held on Monday. This award recognizes the forward-looking vision of King Mohammed VI and the exceptional progress scored by the North African Kingdom, said the Moroccan […]
The newly formed Libyan government has ordered the temporary closure of the country’s borders with four of its neighbors and declared the southern region a restricted military zone. The land borders with Chad, Niger, Sudan and Algeria were shut in a bid to better control and fight “illegal immigration and illicit activities such as arms […]
