Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya in order to create an “enlarged Mediterranean” — the ultimate prize of Italian policy in North Africa.

A Senegalese former migrant who was tortured in Libyan detention camps and was comforted by Pope Francis said Thursday he ...

Equally notable are the representatives from NGOs like Mediterranea Saving Humans and Refugees in Libya, whose inclusion reflects Francis' unwavering advocacy for the marginalized. Francis' legacy of ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

In this context, Cardi stated that the meeting of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya planned for March 19 in Rome would be postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic," the message informs.

Traditionally, Italy has been Europe’s weak link on Iran,’ a Tehran watcher says, although under Meloni relations might be ...

Key human rights treaties not signed by Libya include the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees 187 and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 188 The Libyan government has ...

Alessandra Morelli, from the University of Oxford, has worked in disaster zones in Libya and Turkey. Rome's decision to release Osama Almasri Najim drew condemnation from Italian opposition ...

Meeting migrants who had been in Libya, he decried their suffering and ... one of those families that settled in Rome said Francis didn't just change their lives. “He wanted to begin a global ...