Libya is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. Read More
A group of 98 vulnerable refugees was on Thursday airlifted from war-wracked Libya to Italy in the third direct humanitarian evacuation to the country this year, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said in a statement. ...
Italy's new centre-left-populist government will focus on the entire African continent, not just countries across the Mediterranean like war-torn Libya though stabilising it is a top property, Premier Giuseppe Conte said on Monday. ...
United Nations special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame on Thursday hailed "encouraging progress" on war-torn Libya which, he said, was made at the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz. ...
At least 40 people are estimated to have drowned off the coast of Libya on Tuesday in the latest "shocking" boat disaster in the Mediterranean, the United Nations refugee agency said, urging Europe to renew efforts to prevent such deaths. ...
At least 40 people are feared dead after another boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). ...
At least 90 people were killed and more than 200 others wounded in communal clashes in the Libyan town of Murzug, said The United Nations on Thursday. ...
More than 500 migrants split between Spanish NGO rescue boat Open Arms and the Ocean Viking, operated jointly by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and SOS Mediteranée, remain "abandoned" at sea by the EU as nearby countries continue to refuse them entran ...
The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday said it was "concerned" at Italy's new security law which targets charities that bring rescued boat migrants into its territory without permission, slapping fines of up to a million euros on the NGOs and i ...