Oct 27 Nigel Ash

Libyan coastguard to begin EU training to fight people-smuggling

By Libya Herald reporters. A dangerously overcrowded migrant boat (File photo)Tripoli, 27 October 2016:The three-month training of 78 members of the L...

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Jul 23 Nigel Ash

Some 60 migrants float back to Libya

By Libya Herald reporters. Migrants make landfall back in Libya (Photo: Migrant Report).Tripoli,  23 July 2016:More than sixty migrants returned to Li...

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Jun 30 Nigel Ash

Amnesty International damns Libyan people-traffickers

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis, 1 July 2016:Amnesty International is demanding the international community take serious measures to improve the lot o...

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May 22 Nigel Ash

Sabratha people traffickers tipped off coastguard: report

By Ajnadin Mustafa. A packed and unseaworthy migrant boat last year (File photo)Tripoli, 22 May 2016:The Libyan Coastguard today picked up 850 migrant...

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Apr 27 Nigel Ash

UPDATE: Seventeen murdered in Bani Walid migrant row

By Ajnadin Mustafa and Moutaz Ali. Bani Walid (File Photo)Tripoli, 27 April 2016:Three alleged Libyan people smugglers, 14 Egyptians and two Syrians h...

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Despairing migrants flown home
Feb 28 Nigel Ash

Despairing migrants flown home

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 28 February 2016:When they are paid at all, migrant workers in Tripolitania are often being robbed of their savings...

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Oct 7 Nigel Ash

EU begins Operation Sophia against people smugglers

By Libya Herald reporters. Migrants being picked up in May by a British warship (Photo:Royal Navy)Tunis, 6 October 2015:European Union warships today...

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Scores of migrant bodies washed back to Libya
Oct 4 Nigel Ash

Scores of migrant bodies washed back to Libya

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 4 October 2015:Members of the Red Crescent have spent much of the last five days picking up the drowned corpses of...

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Hundreds dead in latest migrant tragedies
Aug 28 Nigel Ash

Hundreds dead in latest migrant tragedies

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 28 August 2015:Those taking part in an angry Zuwara demonstration against people smugglers today did not know at th...

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Hundreds believed drowned in new migrant boat tragedy
Aug 5 Michel Cousins

Hundreds believed drowned in new migrant boat tragedy

By Libya Herald Reporter. A baby rescued from the sinking vessel (Photo: Medecins sans Frontieres)Tunis, 5 August 2015:Once more, hundreds of migrants...

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