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Tag: Italy
Libyan Coastguards Intercept 4 Inflatable Boats Packed with Migrants
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 ... Read More
Italy Dismantles Migrant Trafficking Network between Tunisia & Sicily with Terrorist Links
Italian authorities busted a migrant trafficking network with links to radical groups operating between Italy and Tunisia. The criminal network was dismantled following the arrest ... Read More
Tunisia to Invest $5 billion in Energy Projects by 2020
Tunisia will invest about $ 5 billion (12 billion dinars) in electricity and energy projects, between 2018 and 2020. According to a statement released by ... Read More
At least 90 Migrants Drowned off Coast of Libya
At least 90 migrants, mostly Pakistanis, lost their lives off the coast of Libya on Friday after their boat capsized, according to press reports. The ... Read More
Italy to deploy counterterrorism Troops in Niger
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni is to ask the Parliament’s permission to redeploy troops currently stationed in Iraq to Niger where terrorist groups are increasingly ... Read More
Libya: GNA-linked Militias Fight over Control of Oil Facility in Sabratha
Two militia groups linked to the UN-backed Government of National Accord have fought over the control of oil and gas terminal in the town of ... Read More
Fears in Italy over Increasing Arrivals of Migrants from Algeria
The Governor of the Italian Island of Sardinia has raised the alarm requesting help from Rome to curb the rising influx of illegal embarcations from ... Read More
Morocco Sends Two Fire-fighting Planes to Battle Italy’s Wildfires
FARThe Moroccan armed forces (FAR) sent two Canadair planes to Italy to extinguish the fire that ravaged so far more than 2000 hectares of forests. ... Read More
Libya: Charities Put Rescue Operations at Sea on Hold
Several NGOs rescuing migrants off Libya’s coasts have suspended operations because of security threats from Libyan coastguard whom they accuse of firing at their ships. ... Read More
‘Italy is trying to recolonize Libya,’ Saif al-Islam
Son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Thursday indicated that Italy, by deploying warships into Libyan territorial waters, is looking to re-colonize Libya by, repeating ... Read More