Ambassadors in the Security Council have been urged by the United Nations Secretary-General to find ‘much-needed consensus’ to resolve the myriad challenges in the Middle East and North Africa.Antonio Guterres issued the call during a debate in the cha…Read More →
TRIPOLI, Italy called on Monday for migrant centers to be set up in Africa to stop a tide of asylum-seekers fleeing toward western Europe, as Rome raised pressure on its European Union partners to take a much tougher approach to immigration.The new Ita…Read More →
ASSAMAKA, NIGER, from this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds. They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across some of the world’s most unfo…Read More →
Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and also recovered 10 bodies on Sunday, officials and a witness at a naval base said. The operations brings the number, since last week, of mainly African migra…Read More →
TRIPOLI, The Libyan airforce carried out strikes late Sunday on remaining terrorists near the city of Bani Walid, some 180 km southeast of the capital Tripoli.The airforce operations chamber confirmed in a statement that its jet fighters had carried ou…Read More →
This morning, the Secretary-General spoke at the General Assembly debate on the responsibility to protect. He said today’s discussion is critical as atrocity crimes are being committed around the world at a scale and ferocity not seen in years, with l…Read More →
Italy’s anti-immigration interior minister said on a visit to Libya on Monday he had proposed setting up migrant reception centers at Libya’s southern borders to help stanch a flow of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. Matteo Salvini, whos…Read More →
TRIPOLI, The Libyan navy on Sunday rescued 458 migrants in two separate operations off the coast of the western cities of Al-Khoms and Zlitan.Navy spokesman Ayob Qassem said coast guards patrol rescued 361 migrants on two rubber boats 53 km off the coa…Read More →
Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini left Monday for talks in Libya on the migrant crisis, he said on Twitter. “Mission Libya, we’ve left!”, he said, posting a selfie on board the military plane to Libya. Salvini is the first member of It…Read More →
Following are UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council on the maintenance of international peace and security: comprehensive review of the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, in New York today:I thank the Russi…Read More →