NGOs’ migrant rescue role comes under Italian spotlight
By Alessandra Bocchi. A typical dangerously-overcrowded migrant boat (File photo) Tunis, 19 February 2017: Italy is looking more closely at ...
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Over 6,250 migrants rescued but dozens suffocate and drown
By Libya Herald reporters. A dangerously overcrowded craft launched by traffickers (File photo) Tripoli, 4 October 2016: International rescuers today ...
Coastguard arrests German charity refugee boat
By Libya Herald reporters. The Sea-Eye charity's founder Michael Buschheur (Photo: Sea-Eye) Tripoli and Tunis, 10 September 2016: The Libya ...
Cairo military say they have “rescued” six Egyptians from Libya
By Libya Herald reporters. The Salloum border crossing with Egypt (Photo: social media) Tunis and Benghazi, 11 July 2016: There ...
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Daring army Benghazi rescue of trapped Canadian
By Adam Ali. Benghazi, 19 December 2014: The daring rescue of a Canadian cut off for 21 days by fighting ...
EU border assistance mission praises coastguard for rescuing 150 migrants
Tripoli, 1 November 2013: The EU's border assistance mission to Libya (EUBAM Libya) has praised the Libyan Naval Coastguard after ...
Abu Anas kidnap ship rescues Somali migrants
By Hadi Fornaji. The USS San Antonio, this time involved in a mercy mission Tripoli, 17 October 2013: The American warship ...
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, ...
Girl dies in Al-Jmail after falling down well
Tripoli, 29 December: A young girl in Al-Jmail died after being trapped down a 12-metre deep well for more than ...
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