A survivor of a migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean has told how he watched fellow passengers slip away and sink to their deaths.

It's prompted warnings that more migrants will die unless search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean are strengthened.

The Libyan government calls for international support to halt the Eastern rebels’ assault on Tripoli.

Libya's UN-backed prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj will hold talks in Rome today with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, amid a deadly military escalation in Tripoli.

Fighters loyal to the Government of National Unity are trying to defend their city from a two week long attack by the eastern based Libyan National Army.

Italian Prime Minister has called for an immediate cease-fire in Libya and Qatar’s Foreign Minister has said countries must be stopped from supplying arms to Libya. Yesterday Giuseppe Conte hosted a meeting in Rome between Libya's Deputy Prime Minister and the Qatari Foreign Minister.

Egypt released photos showing the commander of the LNA Khalifa Haftar with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after they met in Cairo on Sunday, but no other details were given about their meeting.

Thousands of residents have fled homes in Tripoli as fighters battle on outskirts of the city.

As political tensions continue to rise outside the Libyan capital, The Cube hears the story of one migrant in a detention centre.

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France under pressure to condemn Haftar's assault on Tripoli as EU seeks unity on Libya crisis.

The UN-backed Libyan government says at least 21 have died in clashes between government forces and the rebel Libyan National Army

Fighting has been reported near the former international airport, which the Libyan National Army claims now to control.

Libyan military strongman orders march on Tripoli; UN and other countries call for restraint

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to march on the capital Tripoli as the UN tries to push for a peace deal.

The arrest of five migrants who hijacked a boat that rescued them highlights the failure of the European Union to take responsibility for migrant safety, the aid agency Médecins sans Frontières has said.