Since then, under the terms of the agreement Italy has strengthened the technical, technological and material capacity of the Libyan coast guard to intercept migrants and refugees departing from Libya and pull them back to shore, where they face well documented grave human rights violations including torture and abuse. The reductions are to be seen in the context of the Memorandum of understanding spearheaded by Italy’s then Interior Minister Marco Minniti and signed i n February 2017 by Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and the head of the Libyan government of national accord Fayez al-Serraj in order to stem the flow of illegal migrants through Libya into Italy.
This is an 84.2 per cent reduction over the first five months of 2017, when arrivals from Libya amounted to 58,258, or 96.7 per cent of the total, according to the same source. Of the arrivals in the first five months of this year, 9,214, or 68.6 per cent, reportedly departed from Libya. This represents a 77.7 per cent drop with respect to the same period in 2017, when arrivals to Italy stood at 60,228.
Between 1 January and 13,430 migrants and refugees landed on Italian shores, according to Italian interior ministry data.
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