{"id":58622,"date":"2020-01-15T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58622"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:08:51","slug":"nearly-1000-illegal-immigrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58622","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants rescued off Libyan coast in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/1000-migrants-returned-libya-year-200114132748736.html\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/11\/19\/f9f05d60ccda46d19439033ae0477469_18.jpg\" alt=\"Nearly 1,000 migrants 'returned to Libya' this year\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIPOLI, Jan 15 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast so far in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Close to 1,000 migrants were returned to Libyan shores and detained so far in 2020,&#8221; IOM tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;IOM staff are at disembarkation points to provide assistance, but the organization reiterates that measures to protect lives and guarantee the safety of these people are not in place,&#8221; the organization said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya has become a preferred point of departure for illegal immigrants, mostly Africans, who expect to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to IOM, more than 110,000 illegal immigrants made their way to Europe through the Mediterranean in 2019, while 1,283 died on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IOM has repeatedly stressed that Libya is not a safe port for disembarkation of immigrants due to the deteriorating security conditions in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eastern-based army has been leading a military campaign since early April in and around the capital Tripoli, attempting to take over the city and topple the rival UN-backed government. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI, Jan 15 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast so far in 2020. &#8220;Close to 1,000 migrants were returned to Libyan shores and detained so far in 2020,&#8221; IOM tweeted. &#8220;IOM staff are at disembarkation points to provide assistance, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/58622"}],"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=58622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}