{"id":152668,"date":"2021-11-20T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=152668"},"modified":"2021-11-20T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T10:45:14","slug":"302-illegal-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast-un-refugee-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=152668","title":{"rendered":"302 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast: UN refugee agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2021\/11\/20\/image-29076-1637381688.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 TRIPOLI, Nov 20 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; A total of 302 illegal migrants have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 The UN agency tweeted, &#8220;302 persons were intercepted\/rescued at sea last night (Thursday) in three operations and were disembarked in Tripoli and in Zawiya.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 Among them were 50 women and 22 children, it said, adding the UNHCR and the International Red Cross have provided medical aid and relief items to all survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 Libya has been suffering insecurity and chaos since the fall of its late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, making the North African country a preferred point of departure for illegal migrants who want to cross the Mediterranean<br>Sea to European shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 Rescued migrants end up inside overcrowded reception centers across Libya, despite repeated international calls to close those centers. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\" alt=\"facebook sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/messenger.svg\" alt=\"messenger sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/whatsapp.svg\" alt=\"whatsapp sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/sharethis.svg\" alt=\"sharethis sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 TRIPOLI, Nov 20 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; A total of 302 illegal migrants have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said. \u00a0 The UN agency tweeted, &#8220;302 persons were intercepted\/rescued at sea last night (Thursday) in three operations and were disembarked in Tripoli and in Zawiya.&#8221; \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":152669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}