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Libya: One dead and two injured in shooting in Tripoli detention centre Format TRIPOLI, LIBYA – One person was killed and two were injured in the early hours of 8 April after a shooting took place in a detention centre where refugees and migrants are held, in Tripoli, Libya. Two teenagers aged 17 and 18 with gunshot wounds were transferred for urgent medical care by a team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Tensions had been rising in the severely overcrowded Al-Mabani Collection and Return Centre on the night of the incident, according to reports received by MSF, culminating in shots b...

Content provided by Last updated: 09/04 - 21:50 One person was killed and two were injured in the early hours of 8 April after a shooting took place in a detention centre where refugees and migrants are held, in Tripoli, Libya. Two teenagers aged 17 and 18 with gunshot wounds were transferred for urgent medical care by a team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Tensions had been rising in the severely overcrowded Al-Mabani Collection and Return Centre on the night of the incident, according to reports received by MSF, c...

Libya key to EU plan to build a “big wall” against migration, says new report 16 March 2021 Libya lies at the heart of a strategy for which funds from Italy, EU institutions and other member states have been channelled through an opaque financing mechanism with the central aim of reducing migration from Africa to Europe, says a new report by ActionAid. Investment against migration Placed outside the EU budget, and therefore not subject to scrutiny by the European Parliament, a total of  €1.337 billion from the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa was spent across the continent over five yea...

Read more about 100 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast over past week: IOM on Business Standard. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that 100 illegal migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast over the past week.

Cooperating with the Libyan coast guard to return migrants to North Africa can put their lives and rights at risk, the Council of Europe has warned.  In a