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At least four people have been killed when two boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized off Libya’s coast, according to the Libyan Red Crescent. In a statement on Saturday, the organisation ...

Forty-two migrants were presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the Libyan coast this month. Many of the presumed victims were fleeing a raging conflict in Sudan. By Lynsey Chutel Forty-two ...

The sheer scale of the crime is staggering, almost unbelievable: an estimated $20 billion stolen from the Libyan people in just three years. To put that number into perspective, that colossal sum, ...

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THE former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has died, according to reports. "He died an hour ago," Abdelhakim al Megrahi said, ...

DECLARING "zero hour is quickly approaching," Libya's rebel leaders have given loyalist towns and soldiers until Saturday to surrender or face a "final military battle." The insurgents' ultimatum came ...

Thirteen sea-rescue NGOs have established the "Justice Fleet" after suspending cooperation with Libya’s rescue coordination centre over allegations of serious human rights abuses, including forced ...

A Dutch court opened a trial on Monday of an Eritrean man accused of involvement in a brutal migrant smuggling network. Prosecutors say Tewelde Goitom, also known as Amanuel Walid, ran an operation to ...

LIBYA is caught in a conflict between two rival governments and scores of armed factions that back them.