Italians rescue 1,500 migrants in less than 24 hours
By Libya Herald reporters. Tripoli, 5 April 2015: Italian coastguards say that in the course of yesterday, they picked up ...
Tag: migrants
More migrants perish in icy seas
By Libya Herald reporters. An inflatable dinghy from which migrants were rescued last year (Photo: Italian Coastguard) Tripoli, 9 February 2015: ...
196 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean in one week
By Libya Herald staff. MOAS rescues migrants (Photo: MOAS) Tripoli, 4 October 2014: One hundred and ninety six migrants attempting ...
Yet more migrants drown
By Libya Herald reporters. As many as 90 more migrants may have drowned when another almost certainly unseaworthy and overcrowded ...
Migrant workers in Libya highly vulnerable, says IOM
By Libya Herald staff. Cairo, 29 August 2014: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is worried about the vulnerability of migrant workers ...
HRW reports overcrowding and abuse at detention centres, calls on EU and Italy to stop funding until situation improves
By Libya Herald staff. Overcrowding at a migrant detention centre (Photo: Ministry of Interior) Tripoli 25 June 2014: Human Rights ...
EU releases statement in response to “tragic death of migrants at sea”
By Libya Herald staff. Tripoli, 13 May 2014: A second boat carrying hundreds of migrants en route to Europe from ...
British Ambassador urges government to take action over migrant rights
Migrants in Tripoli on their way to work in Tripoli (Photo: Tom Westcott) Tripoli, 21 March 2014: The British Ambassador ...
Coastguard rescues 348 migrants
By Taziz Hasairi. Tripoli, 20 March 2014: In two separate operations, Tripoli’s Naval Coastguard yesterday rescued 348 migrants trying to ...
Coastguard rescues over a hundred migrants
Tripoli, 28 February 2014: The Libyan Coastguard rescued 107 migrants, including 20 women and a baby, some 20 miles off ...
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General Authority for Communications and Informatics suspends activities of China’s Huawei in Libya for violating national and international laws
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New Libyan artificial intelligence system ‘‘LIBIGPT’’ to be launched soon
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New CBL Tripoli HQ construction project inaugurated – 11 years after it was announced
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NESR secures multiple production services contracts for over US$ 100 million in Algeria and Libya
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