Safety at sea training boosts Coastguard skills
Nov 21 thomwestcott

Safety at sea training boosts Coastguard skills

By Tom Westcott. Members of the Libyan Coastguard practise a ‘man overboard’ rescue (Photo: Tom Westcott, Libya Herald)Tripoli, 21 November 2013:The L...

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The Italian navy saves 360 more migrants
Oct 15 Nigel Ash

The Italian navy saves 360 more migrants

By Hadi Fornaji Tripoli, 15 October 2013: In a trio of rescues today, two dangerously overloaded inflatables carrying a total of 290 more migrants...

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Oct 13 Nigel Ash

Libyan vessel picks up Syrian migrants in international waters

 By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.Tripoli, 13 October 2013:A Libyan oil tanker today rescued 174 Syrian migrants in international waters off the Italian coast.Li...

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Sep 11 Michel Cousins

Egypt and Libya discuss Egyptian worker visa problems

Tripoli, 11 September 2103:The Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation, Abdul Aziz Fadel called in the Libyan Ambassador in Cairo, Mohamed Faiz Jibril, to...

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Malta bins plans to fly arriving migrants straight back to Libya
Jul 12 Nigel Ash

Malta bins plans to fly arriving migrants straight back to Libya

By Mohamed Najah. More cold and nervous migrants arrive in Malta (photo:AFM)Tripoli 12 July 2013: Malta has staged a telling demonstration of its ange...

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Jun 21 thomwestcott

Refugee detention conditions in Libya “deplorable” says Amnesty International

By Houda Mzioudet.Tripoli, 21 June 2013:The detention conditions for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Libya have been slammed as “deplorable”...

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Apr 13 thomwestcott

Five migrants die at sea, 89 rescued

Tripoli, 13 April 2013:Five sub-Saharan migrants died, their bodies thrown overboard, during a rubber dinghy’s five-day voyage towards Europe, before...

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Italian coastguard rescues 500 boat people off Sicily
Apr 12 Nigel Ash

Italian coastguard rescues 500 boat people off Sicily

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 12 April 2013:As the sea state improves, the flow of sub-Saharans seeking to reach Italy  from Libya in flimsy, ramshackle cr...

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Mar 13 Michel Cousins

Sirte protestors demand new council leader

Sirte, 13 March, 2013:Dozens of protestors in Sirte today, Wednesday, called for the leader of the town council, Ali Dou Labaz, to be sacked. They dem...

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Dec 29 tomlittle

Twenty Somalis killed in accident on Khoms-Zliten road

Tripoli, 29 December 2012:Twenty Somali migrants were killed early this morning and another 55 injured as they were being smuggled from Ajdabiya into...

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