Jun 1 Nigel Ash

Coastguard wants more help from Italy to fight powerful smugglers

By Jamie Prentis. Libya coastguard vessels need spares and maintenance (Photo:Libyan Navy)Tunis, 1 June 2017:Libyan coastguards cannot deal with heavi...

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May 30 Nigel Ash

The migrant carnage continues as numbers surge

By Libya Herald reporters. Migrants still dying in unseaworthy vessels  (File photo: Italian Navy)Tripoli and Tunis, 30 May 2017:The UNHCR claims that...

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Migrant reception centres to be set up in Chad and Niger
May 22 Michel Cousins

Migrant reception centres to be set up in Chad and Niger

By Jamie Prentis.Tunis, 22 May 2017:Reception centres for migrants are to be set up in Chad and Niger in an effort to fight illegal immigration throug...

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South Libya needs more help preventing illegal migration insists Serraj in talks with Italy's interior minister
May 15 Michel Cousins

South Libya needs more help preventing illegal migration insists Serraj in talks with Italy's interior minister

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 15 May 2017:To counter illegal migration it is imperative “to concentrate on the south”, Presidency Council (PC) head...

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Sicilian prosecutor says some rescue NGOs are working with human traffickers
Apr 23 Nigel Ash

Sicilian prosecutor says some rescue NGOs are working with human traffickers

By Libya Herald Reporters.Tunis, 23 April 2017:An Italian prosecutor has said that he has evidence of direct links between human traffickers in Libya...

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Apr 16 Nigel Ash

Kobler demands PC acts against human traffickers

By Libya Herald reporters. UNSMIL chief wants PC to clampdown on migrant traffickers (File photo)Tunis, 16 April 2017:Human traffickers must be brough...

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IOM Learns of 'Slave Market' Conditions Endangering Migrants in North Africa
Apr 11 Nigel Ash

IOM Learns of 'Slave Market' Conditions Endangering Migrants in North Africa

Tunis, 11 April 2017:The following report is from the UN's International Organisation for Migration. Over the past weekend, IOM staff in Niger and Lib...

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Military operation launched to target fuel smugglers operating at sea
Apr 7 Michel Cousins

Military operation launched to target fuel smugglers operating at sea

By Moutaz Ali.Tripoli, 7 April 2017:The Fuel Crisis Committee, originally established by Tripoli municipal council in 2015 to find solutions to the sh...

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Mar 29 Nigel Ash

Yet more migrants drown

By Libya Herald reporters. A semi-inflated raft from which migrants disappeared (File photo)Tunis, 29 March 2017:A 16 year-old Gambian boy appears to...

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People-smugglers murder migrants who feared rough seas: report
Mar 11 Nigel Ash

People-smugglers murder migrants who feared rough seas: report

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 11 March 2017:A people-smuggler once told this newspaper that he saw himself as being no different from an airline....

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