UN imposes unprecedented sanctions on six Libya human traffickers
By Sami Zaptia. The UN Security Council imposed sanctions yesterday on six human traffickers and smugglers operating through Libya (File ...
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UN Human Rights chief blasts EU’s Libyan migrant deal
By Libya Herald reporters. Migrants in a crowded detention centre (Photo:UN) Tunis, 14 November 2017: The EU’s support for Libyan ...
Italy praises PC’s ban on migrant rescue charity vessels in Libyan waters
By Libya Herald reporters. Libya coastguard vessels which are to replace charity rescuers (Photo:Libyan Navy) Tripoli, 13 August 2017: The ...
EU begins Operation Sophia against people smugglers
By Libya Herald reporters. Migrants being picked up in May by a British warship (Photo:Royal Navy) Tunis, 6 October 2015: ...
Libyan-bound FX smugglers nabbed in Tunisia
By Ajnadin Mustafa. Tripoli, 4 September 2015: Tunisian police have seized foreign currency worth €2.15 million in a bust that ...
Tunisians nab fuel smugglers after a Libyan border gunfight
By Libya Herald reporters. One of the fuel smugglers arrested in the buffer zone (Photo: Tunisian Interior Ministry) Tunis, 22 ...
Tripoli fury as Tunisia begins fortifying its border
By Ajnadin Mustafa. The first of many hundreds of thousands of earth that will be built up into a ditched ...
Desert drugs bust nets two million Tramadol
By Mohamed Husain. The smugglers' vehicles and their cargo (Photo: ) Tobrk, 26 June 2015: Two million Tramadol tablets were ...
Two smugglers killed in drugs ambush in Qatrun
By Libya Herald reporter. Tripoli, 30 March 2015: Two members of a Libyan Tebu group of smugglers were killed yesterday ...
Tunisian consulate attacked by angry Libyan “smugglers”
By Houda Mzioudet The Tunisian consulate after the attack (photo: Ashraf Abdul Wahab) Tripoli, 9 July 2013. The Tunisian consulate ...
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