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Libya

May 2024

  • One of nine Egyptians who was on trial waves to the media as he leaves court.

    Charges dropped against nine Egyptians over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece

  • The Adriana, an ageing fishing trawler, is seen illuminated in the dark at a port with people crammed onto its decks and even onto the roof of its cabin. It is painted blue with large patches of rust on its hull.

    Mediterranean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers

April 2024

  • A young rebel fighter in Liberia.

    ‘He could create beauty out of horror’: the extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington

  • Retired police officer John Murray (second right) outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in November 2021.

    Yvonne Fletcher: ex-colleague to bring private action against suspect in 1984 killing

March 2024

  • Mohamed al-Menfi, the chair of the presidential council (centre), with Sudan's sovereign council chief, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in Tripoli

    Libya to investigate claims oil smuggling is fuelling Sudan civil war

  • Sign outside the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration

    Mass grave of at least 65 people found in Libya, UN migration agency says

  • Médecins Sans Frontières says ‘dangerous manoeuvres’ by coastguard put refugees at even greater risk

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    Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people – video

  • MSF volunteers look on at large Libyan coastguard ship and two smaller vessels

    Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people

February 2024

  • A table with a cocktail and a laptop sit in the foreground, with scenery of a beach behind. The laptop's screen shows the ocean and beach, but in the middle is a boat full of migrants.

    The future of work
    Egypt’s economic woes lure digital nomads – but cast others out to sea

  • A Spanish legionnaire indicates the direction to follow to Moroccan citizens on El Tarajal beach, as they get out of the water on the Spanish side of the fence between the Spanish-Moroccan border, after thousands of Moroccans swam across this border on Monday, in Ceuta, Spain, May 18, 2021.

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies – podcast

January 2024

  • Wrecked building surrounded by rubble

    Denmark admits role in Nato airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011

    In first such admission, previously secret document says Danish aircraft participated in attacks linked to civilian deaths

December 2023

  • Migrants in a boat in the Mediterranean with coastguards

    More than 60 people presumed dead after boat sinks off Libya, says UN

    Victims were from Nigeria, the Gambia and other African countries and included women and children, UN agency says
  • A Spanish legionnaire directs people who have swum across the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in May 2021.

    The long read
    ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies

    The long read: Just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well
  • A Sudanese family of six people sit and lie on sandy ground in front of a horsedrawn cart laden with their possessions, with other horses and carts seen in the background

    World faces ‘heightened risk’ of mass atrocities due to global inaction

    Human rights campaigners say UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’ principle and ambition to prevent genocides have diminished

November 2023

  • Fadi sits on rocks looking out to the sea, his small silhouette dwarfed by rain clouds

    The future of work
    Months after deadly floods in Libya, migrants’ families still await news of the missing

  • David Cameron, right, and Andrew Mitchell arrive in Downing Street ahead of a meeting of Rishi Sunak’s new cabinet on 14 November.

    David Cameron is more joke than joker in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffled pack

October 2023

  • A protester holds up a doll as several thousand demonstrators show their support for Palestine by marching through Avenue Habib Bourguiba and continuing their demonstration in front of the French embassy in Tunis, Tunisia

    Angry protests flare up across Middle East after Gaza hospital blast

    Hezbollah calls for ‘day of rage’ as both sides trade blame for deadly explosion at al-Ahli al-Arab hospital
  • David Jowitt

    Other lives
    David Jowitt obituary

    Other lives: Professor who became a specialist in the ways in which Nigerians speak and write English
  • Boys walk down a street impacted by fatal floods in Derna, Libya.

    East Libya postpones Derna reconstruction conference amid calls for unity

    Rival governments urged to work together to best manage donations for city after catastrophic flooding

September 2023

  • Pato, a migrant from Cameroon, holds a phone showing a picture of him with his family as he gives an interview at an undisclosed location near Tripoli.

    ‘It’s a torment’: refugee tells how his family died in desert on quest for a future in Europe

    Pato Crepin’s wife and six-year-old daughter were repeatedly pushed back by authorities in Tunisia, which has signed a €1bn deal with the EU
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