Illegal migration has become an existential question for Europe’s institutions. The marathon European Council summit on 28 June was evidence of this; European leaders struggled to summon domestic and […]
By AFP – Jul 16,2018 – JORDAN TIMES African migrants, who according to the Libyan navy were rescued by the country’s coast guard, arrive at the naval base of […]
7 July 2018 The European Union wants to set up migrant “reception centres” in North Africa to process the thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe. This has been rejected […]
Source: Dawn The lifeless bodies of three babies were brought ashore in Libya on Friday, victims of a Mediterranean migrant shipwreck in which survivors say 100 people are still missing. Around 120 migrants were aboard the inflatable craft when it ran into trouble, according to survivors taken to Al-Hmidiya, east […]
Source: CNN By Jay Croft, Valentina DiDonato and Nadine Schmidt Amid the ongoing controversy over immigration, the owners of two rescue boats say Italy has forced them to stop operating. […]
Home » Opinion » Ramzy Baroud Jun 19,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Europe is facing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. All attempts at resolving the issue have […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker A 253-feet long, 2,000-ton boat makes for an ungainly political football, especially when it is carrying some 629 desperate migrants and is staffed by a […]
AFP news@thelocal.it @thelocalitaly 21 May 2018 A woman aboard a rescue boat arrives in Messina, Sicily. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP An anti-establishment, far-right government in Italy heralds even more controversy over […]
By AFP – Jun 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — More than 12 migrants were shot dead by human traffickers last week while trying to escape a camp in Libya, […]
Migrants returning from Niger after fleeing Libya. (File photo: AFP) (AFP) May 26, 2018 14:06 The migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia were being held hostage and tortured TRIPOLI: More than […]
Having withdrawn America from the Iran nuclear deal with such capriciousness, the US president has demonstrated that – like the late Libyan leader – he is totally divorced from reality Robert Fisk @indyvoices ‘How Donald […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — Islamic State suicide bombers targeted the offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people in one of the most brazen assaults on the Libyan capital in years. The attackers, strapped with explosive belts, entered the building and […]
By AFP – Apr 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Zintan, Libya – Nearly a year after a Libyan militia announced it had set free the son and heir apparent of slain […]
Photo: Lucas Chandellier/IOM New arrivals receive assistance in Senegal. By Issa Sikiti DA Silva Dakar — Bouba Diop looks in delight at his uncle’s newly refurbished food canteen in […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 19, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Migrants wait to disembark from Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo, Italy, March […]
By Julia Crawford This content was published on March 21, 2018 The first group of vulnerable refugees to arrive in Switzerland from Libya are mostly single women (Keystone) […]
March 18, 2018 – Written by: AbdulkaderAssad Libyan Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) issued a report Saturday documenting kidnap and murder cases of political and criminal backgrounds during 2017, based on official and media reports. The HRS said the statistics doesn’t include casualties of armed clashes. 744 violence victims across Libya; […]
March 14, 2018 Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces patrol through the streets of Libya [zdig1/Twitter] March 14, 2018 Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are accused of supporting […]
By Reuters – Feb 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the self-styled Libyan National Army, loyal to the country’s east strongman Khalifa Haftar, patrol the roads leading into the eastern […]
About 400,000 migrants are in Libya, including roughly 36,000 children — UN By AFP – Dec 24,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Evacuated migrants taken out of detention centres by the UNHCR from […]