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Woman, small child found dead in deflated dinghy off Libya

Rescuers operating off the coast of Libya discovered the bodies of a small child and woman in a deflated dinghy Tuesday, while a second woman was found alive but suffering from hypothermia and shock, an AFP photographer reported.

SocGen to pay $1.34 bn for Libya bribes, Libor manipulation

France’s second-biggest bank Societe Generale will pay US authorities $1.34 billion to settle allegations that it bribed officials in Libya and also manipulated the Libor interest rate benchmark, the US Justice Department announced Monday.

7 pregnant women, 211 others return from Libya

A batch of 218 Nigerians, which included seven pregnant women, yesterday, voluntarily returned from the volatile North African country of Libya where they had been stranded enroute Europe.

17 Nigerian migrants sue Italy for returning them to Libya

Seventeen Nigerian migrants who survived a deadly sea crossing last year have filed a lawsuit against Italy for violating their rights by supporting Libya’s efforts to return them to North Africa, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

Suicide attack on Libya election commission kills 12

Suicide attackers killed at least 12 people at Libya’s electoral commission in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, authorities in the violence-wracked country said, after witnesses reported thick smoke and gunfire.

Libya returnees take bank deductions’ protest to Edo Govt House

Some Libya returnees on Tuesday were at the Edo State Government House in Benin City to protest the management of their stipend accounts by financial institutions where their accounts are domiciled, and related issues. We accorded them the respect they deserve as Nigerians, with undeniable and inalienable rights to express their dissatisfaction, disaffection and discontent […]

Victor, CNN, Libya and slavery (2)

THE Nigerians who cross the Sahara on their way to Europe were exploited by all kinds of people: in Nigeria in Benin by the agent, in Sahara, on the way to Agadez, by Bedouins and Berbers who extorted money from them.

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