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

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 ...

Canada has announced it will take in 750 refugees from Libya, some rescued from migrant detention centers. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a statement that Canada had already resettled ...

After recent crackdowns in Turkey, the well-trodden Aegean route from Turkey to Greece is no longer a viable option for many refugees. Instead, Libyan ports, dominated by smuggling operations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...