Demonstration against the Italy-Libya memorandum

MP Aboubakar Soumahoro during the demonstration against the Italy-Libya memorandum of understanding in Rome on October 26, 2022. - Humanitarian groups including Save the Children and Amnesty International have urged Italy to scrap a controversial EU-sponsored deal with Libya to stop migrant boat crossings to Europe. Under the 2017 accord, Italy and the EU help fund, train and equip the Libyan coastguard, which then intercepts migrants in the Mediterranean and forcibly returns them to the strife-torn country