Libya Investment
Yesterday,
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan announced that Italy has launched a border
control programme in Libya following a sequence of refugee
shipwrecks.
“Italy began
border electronic control via aerial surveillance, starting from Owaynat in the
south to Algerian and Tunisian borders,” Zeidan told a press conference.
He said Italy is
determined to contribute to the establishment of Libyan institutions as the
country tries up to keep with security issues. The Italian government has also
pledged to train about 3,000 Libyan soldier units.
Earlier this
month, Italian police and Libyan Interior Ministry officials discussed joint
action to control illegal migration across the Mediterranean Sea. Zeidan
described illegal immigration as sometimes being “out of the hands of the
authorities.”
The programme
came in the wake of a series of deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean since
last October, with reports of about 1,000 migrants and asylum seekers drowned
since 2011 while travelling from Libya to Italy on a boat.
The tragedies
have prompted Italy, as well as the EU, to respond with accordingly
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