Italy

The Sea-Watch organization filed a complaint in Agrigento, Sicily, against the Libyan Coast Guard for trying to kill 63 migrants at sea. Facts go back to June 30 and were filmed by aid workers. After the violence at sea, the legal puzzle. as reported from Rome, Anne TrécaCan the Italian judiciary prosecute the Libyan…

In Morocco, King Mohammed VI said he definitely wanted to resolve the issue of Moroccan minors in an irregular situation in Europe. The monarch says he is ready to work with European countries and the European Union to resolve this issue. The announcement comes as Spain faces an influx of minors, mostly young Moroccans, into the Ceuta enclave, causing a major crisis between the two Mediterranean…

Since final week, Italy has expressed its anger at Libya. Fishermen accused of violating maritime area say they have been attacked with stay bullets by Libyan coastguards. Regardless of Italian anger, the Libyan ambassador to Rome believes that this incident could have no penalties for relations between the 2 international locations.…

The independent Roman daily "Domani" managed, in collaboration with the British newspaper "The Guardian" and the Italian TV channel RAI News, to obtain documents transcribing wiretaps from 2017. These documents are in the possession of the prosecutor's office Trapani, in Sicily, prove the inertia at the Libyan Coast Guard in the face of migrants' shipwrecks in their territorial waters.…

Following the trip of several Home and Foreign Ministers and the Head of the European Council last week to Tripoli, the Italian and Greek Prime Ministers paid an official visit to Libya on Tuesday 6 April. They discussed economic and security issues as well as their bilateral cooperation with the new Libyan leadership. This double visit is further proof of Europe's great interest in the political rise…

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has made his first trip abroad since taking office in February and arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of issues with the North African country's interim prime minister. Draghi held talks with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and followed in the footsteps of other European leaders who recently met with Libya's new caretaker government, which took power last month to unite the country, which has been divided by civil war for nearly a decade.…

Demonstration in Tunisia to ask Italy to take back its waste. An environmental scandal against a background of corruption shakes the country. A total of 282 containers of Italian household waste were imported illegally last year. Senior customs officials were fired, as was the Minister of the Environment, imprisoned since the end of 2020. And despite legal proceedings, the 7,800 tonnes of rubbish bins…

An Italian Carabinieri unit is expected in Congo on Tuesday to investigate the murder of the Italian ambassador to Congo, a Carabinieri officer and their driver in the country's troubled east. Congolese authorities and members of the UN mission in Congo are also expected in Goma, in eastern Congo, to investigate the killings. Luca Attanasio, the Congolese ambassador since 2017, Carabinieri officer Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Moustapha Milambo were killed in an ambush on Monday as their world…

Rwanda's Hutu rebels on Tuesday denied allegations that they were behind the assassination of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and instead accused the armies of the DRC and Rwanda. Luca Attanasio died of his wounds on Monday after a convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) came under fire near the eastern city of Goma while on a field trip, according to a senior diplomatic source in Kinshasa and WFP. The Italian government confirmed the death, saying an Italian police…

Italy and Libya signed an settlement on Friday to co-operate within the fields of protection for schooling, well being care and demining actions. Italian Protection Minister Lorenzo Guerini met along with his Libyan counterpart Salahuddin Al-Namroush in Rome, the place they signed the "Joint Technical Army Cooperation Settlement", which renews a deal signed in 2013. It requires the identification of latest methods of collaborating within the discipline of medical well being care, beginning with the…