Incident brings number of people reported dead or missing on the central Mediterranean route this year to at least 484.

The International Organization for Migration says two infants are among at least 53 people feared dead or missing after a ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refugees and asylum seekers on board an overcrowded boat are approached by the crew of the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today evacuated some 325 refugees from the Qaser Ben Gasheer detention centre in southern Tripoli amid deteriorating security and escalating violence. The relocation, ...

Libya’s violent crackdown against migrants and refugees has escalated with at least six shot dead after several hundred fled a major detention centre in Tripoli on 8 October. At least seven people who ...

Fifty-three migrants including two babies are dead or missing after a large rubber dinghy capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said on Monday.According to the International ...

Amidst an increasingly volatile security situation in Tripoli, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency successfully evacuated 135 people out of Libya to Niger on Tuesday night (16 October). Many of the evacuated ...

A rubber boat carrying 55 migrants from several African countries has overturned off the coast of Libya after taking on water about six hours after leaving al-Zawiya, the UN migration agency said.

More than a dozen European search and rescue organisations have announced the formation of a new alliance and suspended cooperation with their Libyan counterpart in response to what they say are years ...

A group of 66 vulnerable refugees was evacuated from Libya to Rwanda last night on a UNHCR-chartered flight. They are the first to benefit from the Emergency Transit Mechanism, recently agreed and set ...