By Amina Ismail, Nafisa Eltahir and Renee Maltezou CAIRO/ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek ...

The choices of Libya and Rwanda — rather than ... The two countries had attempted to outsource their refugee obligations by calling Rwanda a “safe third country” to which asylum seekers ...

Before the floods, Libya was host to more than 705,000 refugees and migrants from more than 44 nationalities, according to Michela Pugliese, a migration and asylum researcher at Euro-Med Human ...

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, or UNHCR, around 14,500 refugees and asylum-seekers from Syria were in Libya in 2020. Latest UN numbers indicate that Syrian migrants in the country ...

Nowhere is their situation more critical than in Libya, where many hope to travel on to Europe or Tunisia. In January 2025, the UNHCR estimated the number of Sudanese refugees in Libya to be 210,000.

Bani Walid, Libya – Salem Doma never imagined that, after escaping government oppression at home in Eritrea, his greatest hardship still lay ahead, in the town of Bani Walid in northwest Libya.

Libya has always been a dangerous transit point for migrants hoping to reach Europe, but the recent wave of racially driven violence signals a disturbing shift. Black migrants and refugees in ...

Refugees in Libya face systematic human rights violations and abuse in a bid by authorities to coerce them to return to their home countries, a newly released UN report has revealed. The report ...

Tripoli, Libya, August 12, 2024 — Since the conflict in Sudan started in April last year, over 96,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in Libya. An average of 2,500 to 3,000 refugees from Sudan are ...

A Gaza-bound aid convoy was greeted by large crowds in Libya’s Zawiya after crossing from Tunisia on its journey to break the ...