The Interior Ministry of the Libyan government, charged by the House of Representatives, announced on Saturday the arrest of a number of illegal immigrants in the southeastern city of Kufra.

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According to a statement issued by the ministry’s security media office, intelligence information indicated the existence of a house used as a shelter for a number of illegal immigrants, and elements of the joint security emergency room in the southeast raided the place.

The statement pointed out that the raid resulted in the arrest of a number of illegal immigrants of different African nationalities, and they were transferred to the chamber’s headquarters to take the necessary legal measures against them.

The statement stressed that the operation also resulted in the seizure of property and materials found in the possession of the migrants.
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The Tunisian journalist and lawyer Sonia Al-Dahmani is facing defamation charges after mocking her country during a talk about illegal immigration.

The charges were based on Decree 54, which allows the judiciary to investigate electronic publishing crimes and refer the accused to trial.

Dahmani is known for her bold stance, criticizing advocates of illegal immigration, settling in Tunisia, and mocking Tunisia as a country for refugee settlement.

Her remarks, which were broadcast live on Carthage TV, received wide reactions and sparked controversy in social and political circles.

Against the background of her television statements, the judicial authorities summoned her to appear in court, but Dahmani refused to attend without explaining the reasons behind the summons, prompting the investigative judge to issue an arrest warrant against her.
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Osama Hamad, head of the government in charge of the Libyan House of Representatives, opened the Africa-Europe conference on migration on Saturday in Benghazi.

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Held under the theme “Sustainable Solutions to Migration”, the conference witnessed a wide participation of representatives of African and European parliaments and governments and aims to deepen dialogue and exchange experiences between the two continents in the field of regulating and managing migration flows.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Second Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Misbah Ouahida, and the President of the Pan-African Parliament, Fortune Sharumbera, who participated in discussions aimed at developing effective strategies to address migration-related challenges.
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Yesterday, Friday, Doctors Without Borders succeeded in carrying out a risky rescue mission off the Libyan coast, saving 160 migrants and recovering 11 bodies from the Mediterranean Sea.

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The operation took place during the early hours of the morning, as the organization’s “Geo Parents” rescue ship was able to carry out two rescue operations in a row, and 146 people were initially rescued, followed by the discovery of 20 other migrants on a separate boat.

A Sea-Watch surveillance plane also spotted the bodies of 11 migrants who were later recovered, according to Reuters reports, and showed that the Libyan Coast Guard ignored Sea-Watch’s calls to retrieve the bodies.
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The government appointed by the Libyan House of Representatives announced today the deportation of a group of irregular migrants from the Brak Al-Shati region to Niger, using land routes for this purpose.

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These migrants were arrested inside hideouts used for human trafficking, as the head of the Anti-Illegal Immigration Service in the Southern Region, Major General Abdul Rahman Al-Ansari, explained that these deportations come as part of ongoing efforts to return migrants to their countries in a manner consistent with Libyan laws.

This step is considered part of a broader policy followed by the Libyan government to address issues of irregular migration in the country.
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The Italian Coast Guard announced the recovery of 12 new bodies, including women and children following the sinking of a boat carrying migrants this week in the south of the country, while one of the survivors died while being treated.

The accident occurred about 220 kilometers off the coast of Calabria, and also resulted in the loss of more than 60 people, including a large number of children, according to the Coast Guard.

Doctors Without Borders reported that at least 26 children died in this disaster, including infants as young as a few months old.

In a related context, the German “Rescueship” group reported that 10 more bodies were found in a migrant boat that crashed on Monday off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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More than 50 migrants died while about 200 others were rescued in a tragic incident that occurred on the border between Niger and Libya.

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The incident took place in the region known as Agadez, a dangerous crossing point for migrants seeking to reach Europe through the barren desert. The situation was exacerbated for migrants due to the harsh desert conditions in the region, water scarcity, and extremely high temperatures.

Humanitarian teams found the bodies of the deceased scattered in the desert, while another group who had been abandoned by human smugglers was rescued.

Humanitarian organizations called on concerned countries to intensify border control efforts and combat human smuggling networks, calling for more humanitarian support to migrants stranded under these harsh conditions.
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A report issued by the United Nations revealed that migrants and refugees who take migration routes through Africa face deadly risks that are twice as high as those facing them on sea journeys towards Europe.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration participated in the study, noting that serious violations such as kidnapping, sexual exploitation, and violence have become common on these roads.

The Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the Western and Central Mediterranean, Vincent Cochetel, presented the findings of the report in Geneva, based on interviews that included more than 30,000 migrants.

Cochetel explained that many migrants were left to their fate in the desert, where the living, the dead and the sick were left without help.
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The Tunisian Minister of the Interior, Khaled Al-Nouri, announced that the Tunisian Marine Guard intercepted more than 74,000 migrants during the first half of 2024, as they attempted to reach European coasts.

This number exceeds the number recorded in 2022, when the number of intercepted migrants then reached about 45,000 migrants.

Al-Nouri, who was speaking during his participation in the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, pointed out that the cost of efforts to combat irregular migration cost the Tunisian treasury more than 103 million euros, allocated to the administration of the National Guard without taking into account other losses related to the environmental, health, and agricultural sectors.
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The Libyan authorities arrested 60 Egyptians who illegally crossed its borders, according to what official sources in Tripoli announced.

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The migrants were arrested while they were preparing for a trip across the sea from the coastal city of Zuwara, where the authorities stated that the detainees were transferred to a center of the Directorate Support Force to complete the necessary legal and humanitarian procedures before their deportation.

Investigations indicate that most of the detainees are from the city of Sahel Selim in Assiut Governorate, southern Egypt, where they left for Libya last January for the purpose of work, before they found themselves victims of illegal immigration networks.
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Official data issued by the Anti-Illegal Immigration Service in Libya revealed that 2,102 Sudanese and Chadian immigrants were deported from the city of Kufra during the first six months of this year.

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The data indicated that 985 Sudanese immigrants were deported, nearly half of whom were suffering from epidemic diseases. The statistics also indicated that the largest number of deportations, which included 763 immigrants, took place in the months of May and June only.

The number of deported Chadian migrants reached 1,117 people, 240 of whom were suffering from epidemic diseases, highlighting the major health challenges facing the authorities in dealing with irregular migration flows.
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Benghazi Security Directorate arrested a group of illegal immigrants in Sidi Khalifa area today, Saturday, after a campaign launched by the directorate to control the public street and enforce the law in various areas of the city.

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The statement of the directorate did not specify the number of immigrants who were arrested, as they were handed over to the competent authorities to follow up on the necessary legal procedures.

In another context, the Minister of Interior in the outgoing Government of National Unity, Imad Trabelsi, confirmed that there are between two and 2.5 million foreigners in Libya, where 70-80% of them entered without visas, as a result of the wars and unrest that led to the collapse of the security services in the country.
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