Karim is a young asylum seeker from Darfur, Sudan. He is trapped in Libya, where simply being a Black refugee means living under constant threat of abduction, extortion, and arbitrary detention by armed groups. Karim has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs consistent care, medication, and safe access to food, none of which is stable or safe where he is. Since the case was filed in 2024, Karim has been forced to move shelters more than 35 times.  While he is being pushed fr

Screenshot from a video depicting the after mass of a violent raids in Sebha, Southern Libya by security forces and militias affiliated with the Ministry of Interior Sebha | Today At dawn today, military forces supported by heavy machinery carried out large-scale demolitions in residential areas of Sebha, forcibly displacing more than 2,000 refugees, including women and children, according to acknowledgements by the Sebha Security Directorate. Homes and makeshift shelters wer

Screenshot from the rescue operation involving Ramadan Konte, a Sierra Leonean national 22 Jan 2026 According to information transmitted through official maritime channels, at least 380 people were reported missing at sea as of 24 January, unaccounted for, for up to ten days following departures from Sfax on Tunisia’s eastern coast. This figure came from a single Search and Rescue (SAR) alert dispatch issued to “All Ships in Area” and transmitted via the Inmarsat network by t

One rarely finds accurate words to describe the pain and horrors that Black African women experience in Libya under torture and rape, followed by the never-ending negligence of UNHCR; below is the account of one of our sisters, a victim of human trafficking and rape, who has given birth to a child as a result of those crimes. “My name is H.H.A. I am from Gondar, Ethiopia. In mid-2024, because of the war, my husband and I tried to enter Sudan. On the way, traffickers kidnapped