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InfoMigrants By Charif Bibi Published on : 2021/02/24 In recent years terrifying accounts and images of migrants’ suffering in Libya, especially in the country’s detention centres, have spread across the world. The migrants’ journey through Libya is divided up into several stages, with each leg characterized by its own cruel reality. InfoMigrants has spoken with a source in Libya, who is familiar with the mechanisms of the smuggl...

Published on: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: TRIPOLI: The powerful interior minister of Libya’s unity government survived an assassination attempt, an aide said, sparking fears of resurgent violence despite UN-led peace efforts. Fathi Bashagha’s (pic) convoy “was fired on from an armoured car while he was on the highway” near the capital Tripoli, seat of the Government of National Accord (GNA), a member of his inner circle said. “His police escort returned fire. Two of...

150 migrants freed from Libya detention centre in raid on traffickers February 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm | Published in: Africa, International Organisations, IOM, Libya, News Migrants rescued off the coast of al-Khums, about 120 kilometres east of the capital, sit on the pier in Tripolis naval base on 10 February 2021. [AFP via Getty Images] February 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm Over 150 migrants were freed from a Libyan detention centre after local authorities raided a secret prison used by people tra...

InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/23 Some 350 African migrants, including over 100 children, have reportedly been freed from a secret prison in southeast Libya. The UN migration agency, IOM, said many of them were malnourished and had been abused. Libyan authorities on Sunday raided a secret prison in a southeastern city used by human traffickers and freed at least 156 African migrants, the Associated Press (AP) r...

February 23, 2021 at 7:02 pm | Published in: Africa, Libya, News Fathi Bashagha, Interior Minister of Libyas UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), speaks during a press conference at the Tajura Training Institute, southeast of the GNA-held capital Tripoli on July 28, 2020 [MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images] February 23, 2021 at 7:02 pm The Libyan High Council of State has called for an urgent investigation into the attempted assassination of Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha, A...

Vanguard News Libya’s interior minister survives attack west of Tripoli On Kindly Share This Story: The Interior Minister of Libya’s UN-recognised government, Fathi Bashagha, survived a militant attack on his convoy, west of the capital Tripoli on Sunday, an official said. An armoured vehicle opened fire on the minister’s convoy on the highway in the Janzur area, the Health Ministry’s media adviser, Amin al-Hashimi, wrote on Twitter, adding that Bashagha was unharmed. A guard in the mi...

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The interior minister of Libya's unity government has survived an assassination attempt and now there are fears of resurgent violence in retaliation to the attack.

The failed assassination attempt on Fathi Bashagha has led to the death of two people and the capture of two in the capital Tripoli.