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Italy has supplied Libya with funding, vessels and training as part of an agreement to slow the numbers of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. #EuropeNews ...
Italy ‘complicit’ in crimes for renewing pact with Libya: NGOs. The Memorandum of Understanding on Migration has been renewed despite mounting evidence of crimes against humanity.
The UN refugee agency said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than ...
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Italy could not ... The judges found, however, that this support did not prove “Italy had taken over Libya’s public-authority powers.” ...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni insists on tackling migration by increasing cooperation with North African countries as she visited Libya’s two rival administrations on Tuesday, while ...
This underscores Italy’s vested interests in Libya, particularly concerning migration control. Italy has long relied on the Libyan coast guard to manage migrant flows across the Mediterranean ...
The government attributed the release to procedural reasons. But critics say it is because Italy depends on Libya to stem the flow of migrants from Africa. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo ...
Italian police arrested a Libyan warlord on a warrant from the International Criminal Court, but an Italian tribunal refused to approve the arrest and he was instead sent back to Libya, Italy's ...
Libya’s Chief of Judicial Police, Osama “Al Masri” Njeem, returned to Libya on an Italian government plane after his arrest in Italy on January 19 on an International Criminal Court (ICC ...
Human rights groups voiced outrage after Italy released a Libyan warlord on a technicality, after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court accusing him of war crimes and ...
Before the Arab Spring in 2010, Libya played a significant role in Italy’s energy supply as the country’s largest oil and third-largest gas supplier. Each year, approximately 12.3 billion cubic metres ...
The region was often neglected by centralized rulers in Tripoli, and even today, it suffers from underdevelopment, human trafficking, and foreign interference. Tripolitania: Coastal power and colonial ...