The European Union's border and coastguard agency. Frontex patrols the bloc's external borders and the waters off north Africa, increasingly using drones to monitor Libyan and Tunisian coastlines. When it spots a migrant boat, it notifies the authorities in those countries. In the three years to 2024 the agency shared the locations of migrant boats with Libya's authorities more than 2,000 times, according to Lighthouse Reports, an investigative-journalism group.
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