• Several aid groups have said that they would suspend some migrant rescue operations in Libyan waters in the Mediterranean over the increasingly hostile stance of the country’s Coast Guard.

Amid rising antimigrant sentiment in Italy, the government in Rome has also pressed aid groups to avoid Libyan waters. Italy last month agreed to send a naval mission to assist the Libyan Coast Guard to curb human trafficking.

Critics say there is concern over the inhumane conditions migrants face if they are returned to Libya and held in detention centers.