Inauguration of a training centre for the Border Guard service of the Libyan Ministry of Defence in Sabrata
Oct 14 Sami Zaptia

Inauguration of a training centre for the Border Guard service of the Libyan Ministry of Defence in Sabrata

A training centre for the border guard service of the Libyan Ministry of Defence was opened in Sabrata yesterday, the European Union in Libya reported...

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23 flights of international aid from 12 states arrive in Libya within 24 hours – government asks UN to coordinate effort
Sep 13 Michel Cousins

23 flights of international aid from 12 states arrive in Libya within 24 hours – government asks UN to coordinate effort

September 14, 2023Domestic and international aid has started arriving to eastern Libya, the area devastated by Storm Daniel. This includes specialist...

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Libya's Tripoli-based government receives 3 maritime rescue GAT boats from Italy and the EU
Aug 3 Sami Zaptia

Libya's Tripoli-based government receives 3 maritime rescue GAT boats from Italy and the EU

The Media Centre of the Chiefs of General Staff of the Tripoli-based Libyan Army reported yesterday that the head of the Coast Guard and Ports Securit...

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Libyan team helping in Turkey earthquake zone conducts operations, recovers bodies on day one
Feb 10 Sami Zaptia

Libyan team helping in Turkey earthquake zone conducts operations, recovers bodies on day one

On the first day helping in search and rescue operations in the Turkish earthquake zone, the Libyan Joint Medical Team of the Centre for Emergency Med...

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Libya sends specialist personnel to Turkey to aid in earthquake search and rescue
Feb 8 Sami Zaptia

Libya sends specialist personnel to Turkey to aid in earthquake search and rescue

Libya has sent specialist personnel to Turkey to aid in the post-earthquake search and rescue effort.The Tripoli government reported that on the instr...

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Oct 23 Sami Zaptia

Five Libyan illegal migrants missing at sea, 13 others rescued to Lampedusa

By Sami Zaptia.Five Libyans lost at sea illegally crossing the Mediterranean, another 13 were rescued to Lampedusa port (Photo: Mediterraneocronaca.it...

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Oct 15 Sami Zaptia

Libya’s Interior Ministry visits Airbus to discuss purchase of helicopters

By Sami Zaptia.London, 15 October 2020: Libya’s Interior Ministry, aligned with the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, today reported t...

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May 18 Michel Cousins

Coastguard rescues over 500 off Sabratha and Garabulli

By Libya Herald reporter. Tripoli, 18 May 2017:Over 500 migrants whose boats were in difficulty were rescued this morning in two separate operations b...

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Some 240 migrants feared lost off Libya coast
Mar 24 Michel Cousins

Some 240 migrants feared lost off Libya coast

By Alessandra Bocchi.Tunis, 24 March 2016:As many as 240 migrants are feared to have drowned around 15 kilometres off the Libyan coast north of Sabrat...

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Three thousand migrants rescued in a single day
Mar 19 Nigel Ash

Three thousand migrants rescued in a single day

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 19 March 2016:Over 3,000 migrants were saved off the Libyan coastline today, a vast increase on the 1,394 rescued i...

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