“IOM staff are providing emergency assistance to 79 migrants returned to Libya by the coast guard today,” the UN body tweeted.
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The President spoke at State House, Abuja on Tuesday, while receiving a Special Envoy from President Idris Deby Itno of Chad, adding that Nigeria appreciates the support she was getting in tackling insecurity from the neighbouring country.
Galadima, a key political player in the country and major critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, said this in an interview with The Nation.
Libya’s coastguard rescued a total of 124 migrants after their boats broke down during Europe-bound journeys, the country’s navy said on Wednesday.
Libya has become a preferred departure point for illegal immigrants hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe because of insecurity and chaos in the North African country following the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“The Attorney-General’s office is preparing a list of former regime officials sentenced by the court to be released in the next few days due to their medical conditions,” a source of the Libyan Ministry of Justice told Xinhua.
The oil-producing nation splintered following the 2011 NATO-backed revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, and since 2014 has been divided between competing political and military groups based in Tripoli and the east.
The Netherlands, backed by France, Germany, Britain and the US, asked the 15-member council’s Libya sanctions committee to impose a global asset freeze and travel ban on six people.
The Army’s concern came a week after President Muhammadu Buhari blamed the rise in herders’ attacks on foreign militia trained by late Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi
He said: “It is embarrassingly shameful that the President has taken his blame game to the international level by blaming the dead for his cluelessness.”
Saadi Gaddafi, who has been held in the capital Tripoli since his extradition from Niger in 2014, was found not guilty of “murder, deception, threats, enslavement and defamation of the former player, Bashir Rayani,” a statement from the ministry said.
The spaker said: “No fewer than 2.5 million people or almost a half of the country’s population have already registered to take part in the election.
On Wednesday, the Libyan Government of National Accord’s foreign minister, Mohamed Siala, said presidential election in Libya might be held in mid-2018.
Gunmen chased the car of Mayor Mohamed Eshtewi after he left Misrata airport following his arrival on a plane from Turkey, a security official said, adding it was unclear who was behind it.
Zeidan was prime minister from 2012 to 2014, a period when Libya slide deeper into the political turmoil and armed conflict that has plagued the country since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown six years ago.
On Friday, the two men hijacked an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 on an internal Libyan flight between Sebha in southern Libya and Tripoli and threatened to blow it up with a hand grenade