Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, from Nigeria, Gambia, and other African countries have drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, a United Nations, agency has said. The boat originally contained 86 people and left the Continue Reading
Aid teams are battling to help survivors and locate the dead five days after devastating flooding hit eastern Libya Thousands of people were killed when two dams burst after intense rainfall from Storm Daniel, washing away whole neighbourhoods in the city of Derna. Figures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 […]Continue Reading
Libyan Person’s Missing Authority says forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the Islamic State. Exhumation teams unearthed “42 unidentified bodies” after following up reports of a “mass grave” at the site of a former school in Sirte, the authority said. “DNA samples have […]Continue Reading
Protesters have stormed Libya’s parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk and are reported to have set fire to part of the building. Images posted online showed thick columns of smoke as the demonstrators burned tyres outside. There have been rallies in other Libyan cities against continuing power cuts, rising prices and political deadlock. In […]Continue Reading
Increasing numbers of African countries are confirming Coronavirus cases, prompting many to announce measures to control the spread of the virus. Ghana is the latest nation to ban entry to foreign visitors from countries badly impacted by the disease. Earlier, South Africa declared a state of disaster, closing its borders to foreign nationals from countries […]Continue Reading