Fifty-three migrants dead or missing after boat capsizes off Libya, IOM says
- 09-Feb-2026
Fifty-three migrants, including two babies, were dead or missing after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday. The boat departed from Zawiya on Thursday and then overturned off Zuwara on Friday, the IOM said in a statement, citing the survivors. Zawiya and […]
Libya signs 25-year oil deal with TotalEnergies and ConocoPhillips
- 24-Jan-2026
Libya signed a 25-year oil development agreement on Saturday with France’s TotalEnergies and U.S.-based ConocoPhillips, involving more than $20 billion in foreign-financed investment, Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said. Signed through Waha Oil Company, the deal is aimed at boosting production capacity by up to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) and is expected to generate net […]
Libyan army’s chief dies in plane crash in Turkey
- 24-Dec-2025
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey’s capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government said, adding that four others were on the jet as well. “This followed a tragic and painful incident while they were returning from an official […]
42 feared dead in migrant shipwreck off Libya: UN
- 12-Nov-2025
GENEVA, Switzerland: The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the Libyan coast last week. It was the latest in a series of similar disasters in a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea that has claimed the lives of more than a thousand people so far […]
Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants to Italy
- 24-Aug-2025
MILAN: Three young sisters drowned when the rubber boat carrying them and dozens of other migrants got into difficulties on the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday. RESQSHIP said the bodies of the sisters, aged 9, 11 and 17, were found inside the boat, which […]
Egypt, Libya stop activists gathering for ‘March to Gaza’
- 14-Jun-2025
Egyptian authorities detained more activists planning to march to Gaza in protest of restrictions on aid reaching the territory, while security forces in eastern Libya blocked a convoy of activists en route to meet them. Demonstrators from 80 countries planned to march to Egypt’s border with Gaza to spotlight the deepening humanitarian crises facing Palestinians […]
US may soon deport migrants to Libya
- 07-May-2025
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration may deport migrants to Libya for the first time this week, three U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as part of his immigration crackdown and despite Washington’s past condemnation of Libya’s harsh treatment of detainees. Two of the officials said the U.S. military could fly the migrants to the North […]
Four Pakistanis among 11 dead as migrant boat ‘capsizes’ off Libya coast
- 15-Apr-2025
A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of eastern Libya on the night of April 12-13, killing at least 11 people, including four Pakistanis, ARY News reported citing sources. According to sources within the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the vessel, en route from Libya to Greece, was carrying migrants seeking better opportunities in Europe. […]
More than 60 dead off Libya in latest migrant tragedy
- 17-Dec-2023
Around 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya’s coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, in the latest migrant tragedy off North Africa. The “large number of migrants” are believed to have died because of high waves which swamped their vessel after it left from Zuwara, on […]
Authorities try to contain anger in aftermath of Libya floods
- 21-Sep-2023
Communications went down, some journalists were pushed out and a U.N. aid team was blocked from the flood-hit city of Derna on Tuesday, as the authorities sought to contain public anger over the failure to prevent Libya’s worst ever natural disaster. A week after a flood wiped out much of the centre of the city, […]