Libya closes three migrant detention centers in west
Libyan authorities in Tripoli have announced the shutdown of three migrant detention centers in Misrata, Khoms and Tajoura, which was hit by air strikes that killed at least 53 people.
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EU should charter migrant flights, says Italian FM
Italy's foreign minister has called for recent problems posed by mass migration to be solved within a European framework. Italy has borne the brunt of a huge influx of migrants to Europe that erupted in 2015.
Libya: Migrants at one detention center freed but where next?
Migrants are being allowed to leave the Tajoura detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli, about two weeks after it was hit by an air strike which killed at least 53 people and injured 130 others. The UNHCR Libya is trying to register and provide assistance to many who have left but what will happen to them next?
Libya considers releasing migrants from detention centres
The Libyan government of Fayez al-Sarraj is evaluating the possibility of closing migrant detention centers in the country after an airstrike on the center in Tajoura.
Libya's refugees caught in the crossfire of war
A conflict between Libya's competing government factions has placed refugees in the middle of a bloody power struggle. A deadly airstrike on a detention camp is just the latest attack to target refugee facilities.
Italy: Plans for humanitarian corridor for 50,000 from Libya
The chairman of the Lower House's constitutional affairs committee said the Italian government has been working for months "to make a humanitarian corridor to save 50,000 people from the modern-day concentration camps in Libya."
22 migrants die of hunger after being held in hangar
More than 20 migrants died of hunger and thirst after hundreds were held for months in a hangar filled with worms, rubbish and excrement in the western Libyan desert. The survivors and their attorneys accuse UN humanitarian agencies of having "turned a blind eye" to what was happening and having "responded too late" to calls for help. The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, denies the accusations.
Libya does not have any safe ports, UNHCR
Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR's special envoy for the Central Mediterranean, has reiterated that there is no port known to be safe in Libya. The UN agency has launched an appeal to raise 210 million dollars for migrant assistance.
MSF warns of healthcare emergency in Libya, 22 dead
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that there is a ''catastrophic situation'' in Libyan detention centers that it visited. Over the past nine months, it noted, 22 people have died from suspected tuberculosis and other diseases in two detention centers south of Tripoli.
UNHCR evacuates refugees out of Libya to Niger
Amidst ongoing clashes in Tripoli, the UN refugee agency UNHCR moved 131 refugees out of Libya to its Emergency Transit Mechanism in Niger, where the refugees will receive humanitarian assistance.
'Libya detention camps must be closed', EU says
The European Commission has reiterated that its position on migrant detention centers in Libya has remained unchanged and that the facilities must be closed.
1,000 children at risk in Libyan detention centers, UNICEF
UNICEF has voiced its concern about the over 1,000 minors among the 3,000 migrants held in Libyan detention centers in conflict zones. ''They have already suffered all types of torture and the worst is feared,'' said the Italian branch spokesman.