IOM reports 928,839 migrants identified across Libya in 2025
Jan 14 Sami Zaptia

IOM reports 928,839 migrants identified across Libya in 2025

There were 928,839 migrants identified in Libya by the IOM Libya’s DTM Round 59 covering August to October 2025. These migrants were across 663 assess...

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22,509 migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya so far in 2025 – already more than the 21,762 intercepted for all of 2024
Oct 29 Sami Zaptia

22,509 migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya so far in 2025 – already more than the 21,762 intercepted for all of 2024

The IOM reported yesterday in its ‘‘Libya Weekly Maritime Update’’ that, from 19 to 25 October 2025, 1,273 migrants were intercepted and returned to L...

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IOM identifies 894,890 migrants in Libya from 45 nationalities in May-July 2025 reporting period – 18 percent up on 2024
Oct 10 Sami Zaptia

IOM identifies 894,890 migrants in Libya from 45 nationalities in May-July 2025 reporting period – 18 percent up on 2024

IOM’s latest Libya Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme identified a total of 894,890 migrants from 45 nationalities across the 100 Libyan mun...

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Libya Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration Report: IOM
Aug 19 Sami Zaptia

Libya Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration Report: IOM

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) released yesterday its Libya – Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration Report (June 2025) repo...

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UNSMIL strongly condemns heinous killing of 15 migrants in Sabratha
Oct 9 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL strongly condemns heinous killing of 15 migrants in Sabratha

UNSMIL strongly condemned today the heinous killing on Friday morning of at least 15 migrants and asylum-seekers in Sabratha.It reported that 11 charr...

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Gnewa Kikli’s Stabilization Support Agency accuses Amnesty International of defamation
May 6 Sami Zaptia

Gnewa Kikli’s Stabilization Support Agency accuses Amnesty International of defamation

The Stabilization Support Agency, one of Tripoli's most powerful state-recognized militias, headed by Abdul Ghani Al Kikli commonly refered to as ''Gn...

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Sep 24 Sami Zaptia

Migrants in Libya decreased by 7 percent since March: IOM

By Sami Zaptia.(IOM).London, 24 September 2020: The number of migrants in Libya has been decreasing since March this year, the International Organizat...

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EU to give €30 million towards migrant challenges
Dec 9 Michel Cousins

EU to give €30 million towards migrant challenges

By Liby Herald reporter.Tunis, 9 December 2017:The EU is giving €30 million to the EU Trust for Africa to address migrant challenges in the Mediterran...

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Hundreds demonstrate in Paris against slavery in Libya
Nov 19 Michel Cousins

Hundreds demonstrate in Paris against slavery in Libya

By Michel Cousins.Paris, 19 November 2017:Several hundred angry protestors demonstrated outside the Libyan embassy in Paris yesterday afternoon demand...

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Nov 15 Nigel Ash

Italy and Germany rebut UN criticism of their Libyan anti-migrant backing

By Libya Herald reporters. Libyan Coastguard vessels on patrol (Photo:Libyan Navy)Tunis, 15 November 2017:The Italian and German foreign ministers hav...

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