Amidst an increasingly volatile security situation in Tripoli, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency successfully evacuated 135 people out of Libya to Niger on Tuesday night (16 October). Many of the evacuated ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today evacuated some 325 refugees from the Qaser Ben Gasheer detention centre in southern Tripoli amid deteriorating security and escalating violence. The relocation, ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refugees and asylum seekers on board an overcrowded boat are approached by the crew of the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, ...

On 3 July, more than 50 refugees and migrants lost their lives in an airstrike on the Tajoura Detention Centre in the east of Libya’s Tripoli. This week, we appealed to the European Union and African ...

Since 2026, nearly 17 percent of Lebanon’s population has been living in a state of major food insecurity – a situation that ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Libya said on Wednesday that only 13 people survived after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized off ...

MILAN (AP) — Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday — bringing this year's toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or ...

A further 61 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, were missing after their boat capsized off Libya on Saturday, the UN refugee agency said, in one of two such deadly wrecks over the weekend. The Barron's ...