Bodies of 74 migrants heading to Europe wash up in Libya
At least 74 bodies of African migrants have washed ashore in western Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent said Tuesday, the latest tragedy at sea along a perilous but increasingly popular trafficking route to Europe. The bodies were found near the western Libyan city of Zawiya on Monday, Red Crescent spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati told The Associated […]
161 Nigerian Citizens Deported From Libya
One hundred and sixty-one Nigerians, who have been stranded in Libya voluntarily returned to the country yesterday on board an Airbus 329 with registration number Nouvelair TS-INB. The returnees journey back to Nigeria was facilitated by International Oganisation for Migration, IOM, after the Federal Government asked for its assistance after confirming that some Nigerians were […]
US President Donald Trump Says Christians in Middle East Have Been ‘Executed in Large Numbers’
US President Donald Trump has declared his support for Christians ‘executed in large numbers’ in the Middle East, two days after he issued an immigration order that barred citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Trump faced nationwide protests and scathing criticism after signing an executive order on Friday that put a four-month […]
The Continuing Threat of Terrorism in Africa
The fluctuations in successfully addressing this issue were particularly apparent in Libya. The Islamic State (ISIS) seized control of Sirte in May 2015, incorporating the coastal city as a key area of its global caliphate. Nonetheless, a campaign initiated by militias from the nearby city of Misrata in May 2016 – supported by United States […]
People Smuggling in Libya – You Can’t Bomb Away a Problem of Economics
Europe seems to think force and arms are the solution to reducing people smuggling in the volatile and fluid Libya. Even Gaddafi knew better. Back in 2010, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi famously declared that if it weren’t for his rule in Libya, Europe would “turn black” with the “advance of millions of immigrants”. The wily dictator’s […]
Avoid Libya – Death Penalty Awaits You There – Nigeria Warns Migrants
Nigeria has advised migrants to avoid Libya where penalty for illegal migration attracts death penalty. The office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora made the appeal on Sunday. Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the SSA to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, is appalled that in spite of the […]
U.S. strikes in Libya kill more than 80 Islamic State fighters
More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in U.S. air strikes on camps outside the group’s former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya, the United States said on Thursday. “These strikes were directed against some of ISIL’s external plotters,” U.S Defense Secretary Ash […]
Malta hijack ends peacefully as Gaddafi loyalists surrender
Hijackers armed with what were probably replica weapons forced an airliner to land in Malta on Friday before freeing all their hostages unharmed and surrendering, having declared loyalty to Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi. Television pictures showed two men being led from the aircraft in handcuffs. The prime minister of the tiny Mediterranean island, Joseph […]
Muammar Gaddafi ‘gave Nicolas Sarkozy €50m for 2007 presidential campaign’
A French-Lebanese businessman has publicly repeated claims that the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave €50m (£43m) to fund Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 campaign for the French presidency. In a film published on the investigative news website Mediapart, Ziad Takieddine, who introduced Sarkozy to Gaddafi, insists he handed over cases stuffed with cash to the […]
French customs officials killed as plane crashes
A plane has crashed in Malta, killing all five people on board in the country’s worst peacetime air disaster. Maltese officials said French customs officials were among victims on the flight, which was heading for the city of Misrata in Libya. They were tracking people smuggling across the Mediterranean, where Libya’s northern coast has become […]
