{"id":47118,"date":"2022-11-29T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-20-000-illegal-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast-since-start-of-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:57:11","slug":"over-20-000-illegal-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast-since-start-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-20-000-illegal-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast-since-start-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20,000 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast since start of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rescued migrants include 19,075 men, 1,089 women and 678 children, IOM said.<\/p>\n<p>Also, 514 migrants died and 865 others went missing off the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route, IOM added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a total of 32,425 illegal migrants were rescued and returned to Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been suffering insecurity and chaos since the fall of the 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 Sea to European shores.<\/p>\n<p>Rescued migrants end up inside overcrowded reception centers across Libya, despite repeated international calls to close those centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{TRIPOLI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said a total of 20,842 were rescued and returned to Libya so far in 2022.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}