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by Imed Lamloum with Olivier Baube in Rome Agence France-Presse TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – Italy’s pugnacious new government took its fight to block migrants to Libya on Monday as a new boat with hundreds on board remained stranded at sea, deepening a crisis shaking Europe. With European leaders at each other’s throats over the large number of migrants arriving from North Africa, Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini paid a surprise visit to Tripoli. There, […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – Libya’s coastguard has rescued nearly 1,000 migrants who were on boats in distress in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe, the navy said on Monday. Three separate operations took place on Sunday with the coastguard bringing ashore in Libya a total of 948 migrants, navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem said. The migrants were on inflatable dinghies which were facing difficulties in the Mediterranean off the coast of Garabulli east of the […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — At least 19 migrants were killed on Wednesday and more than 100 injured when the truck transporting them crashed in Libya, a hospital said. Over 300 migrants, mostly Eritrean and Somali nationals, were on board the vehicle which overturned near the town of Bani Walid. A child was among the at least 19 migrants killed in the accident, the head of the town’s hospital, Mohamad al-Mabrouk, told AFP. The hospital, which had earlier given […]
by Lachlan CARMICHAEL Agence France-Presse SOFIA, Bulgaria (AFP) – EU ministers stuck Thursday to opposing east-west camps as they started a countdown to try and overhaul Europe’s asylum rules by June when the three-year-old migration crisis could flare anew. The minister from Bulgaria, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency ending June 30, said he would introduce proposals to “try to find a balance between the member states” split over refugee quotas. “Today we will see if […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italian coastguard service said Thursday 264 migrants had been rescued from a boat off the coast of Calabria, where traffickers have increasingly been using smaller boats recently. The vessel was sighted by a plane belonging to the EU border agency Frontex and the migrants were rescued off the southern city of Crotone, a spokesman said. The spokesman said the boat probably came from Turkey. Several coastguard boats and a British ship […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Between 90 and 100 migrants were missing after their makeshift boat sank in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, the country’s navy said late Tuesday. The inflatable boat was carrying more than 100 people when it went down, according to navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem, who said rescuers had saved just 17 people, including some women. Survivors clung to the vessel for hours before help arrived. The boat sank off the […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Muling umapela ang gobyerno ng Libya sa Pilipinas na bawiin na ang ipinatupad na hiring ban sa mga Pilipino worker. Ayon sa Libya, bumuti na ang sitwasyon ng seguridad sa kanilang bansa noon pang 2014. Sinabi ni Libyan Embassy Charge D’affaires Ahmed Eddeb, naiintindihan niya ang pagkabahala ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas sa seguridad ng mga Filipino workers. Kaya hinihikayat niya ang mga opisyal ng Pilipinas na muling isalang sa evaluation […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday urged the international community to “do more” following reports of the “abhorrent and despicable” enslavement of vulnerable African refugees arriving in Libya. “Canada will not stay silent in the face of such inhumane atrocities,” Trudeau said in a statement published on a government website. “While it is clear that the Libyan government is investigating this horrific injustice, and humanitarian organizations have launched efforts to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police investigating the deadly concert bombing in Manchester earlier this year said Wednesday they had requested the extradition of the attacker’s brother from Libya. Salman Abedi killed 22 people when he detonated a suicide bomb after a concert by pop star Ariana Grande, Britain’s worst terror attack in more than a decade. Manchester-born to Libyan parents, Abedi is believed to have travelled to Libya in the run-up to the May 22 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US forces carried out six “precision air strikes” against an Islamic State camp in Libya, killing 17 people, the US Africa Command said Sunday. The command said the air strikes were conducted on Friday, in coordination with Libya’s Government of National Accord.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Jihadists are still battling Libyan forces in Benghazi days after strongman Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled army declared victory in the eastern city, his forces said Sunday. Colonel Miloud Zwei, the spokesman for Haftar’s Libyan National Army, said the fighting persisted in the district of Soug al-Jarid, located between the central neighborhoods of Soug al-Hout and Al-Sabri, the jihadists’ last strongholds. Zwei said 20 LNA soldiers have been killed by […]
Privately-run aid organizations rescuing migrants off Libya have slammed the idea of creating a “code of conduct” for them to follow, saying European ministers tackling the crisis are bungling their response. Italy, France and Germany held a working dinner on Sunday to prepare the ground for a six-point plan to address the biggest migrant phenomenon since World War II, to be submitted to the bloc at a meeting on Thursday in Talinn. Top of […]
