Libya

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has on Wednesday received 162 Nigerian returnees from Libya through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos state. Acting Coordinator of Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, Mr Ibrahim…

No fewer than 141 Nigerians including 11 pregnant women have voluntarily returned from Libya to Nigeria with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU). Mr Segun Afolayan, Chief…

More than 100 migrants, including at least 20 children, died when two boats sank off the coast of Libya early this month, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), citing survivors. The witnesses told MSF that two inflatable boats…

A Nigerian returnee said she was gang raped while in Libya and is now pregnant. The victim, Titi was assisted to return to Nigeria with IOM last charter flight from Libya. Read her story: 'I finished my National Diploma but there…

Seventeen Nigerian migrants who survived a deadly sea crossing last year have filed a lawsuit against Italy for violating their rights by supporting Libya’s efforts to return them to North Africa, their lawyers said on Tuesday. The…

Accusing the Nigerian government of being the major stimulator of dangerous decisions taken by youths, some Libyan returnees from Edo state have disclosed that more Nigerians would continue to flee to Libya in spite of the sufferings and…

At least 23 illegal African migrants were killed and 124 injured after a truck smuggling them to Libyan town of Bani Walid crashed on Wednesday. The Spokesman of the Bani Walid hospital,  Mohamed al-Mabrouk said the truck had flipped…

Zuwara Security Directorate said that it had detained 186 illegal African immigrants after receiving information indicating the presence of abnormal movement in one of the buildings inside the city. On its Facebook page on Monday, the…

Home-based Super Eagles yesterday resurrected their hope of qualifying from Group C at the on-going African Nations Championship (Chan), beating the defending champions, Libya 1-0. The match played at the Stade Ibn Batouta in…

SOS Mediterranean, an European Organization for the rescue of lives in the Mediterranean, on Saturday morning rescued 115 African migrants from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress off Libyan coast. Among those rescued were 11 women, a…

The Libyan embassy in Nigeria has issued a statement on the outrageous alleged practice of slave trade that was recenty uncovered in the country by CNN. In the statement, the embassy says the government of Libya has ordered an…

Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has condemned the ill-treatment of Africans in Libya especially as regards the 'Mordern slave trade'.  He also berated the President for failing to address the situation. He took to photo sharing…