Libya Appeals for EU and Italian Support to Manage Irregular Migration Pressures

Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh has called on Italy and the European Union to provide direct support to his government in addressing irregular migration, warning that Libya continues to shoulder a disproportionate security and humanitarian burden at a meeting held on Monday, January 19. The appeal was made during talks in Tripoli with Italy’s Deputy […]

Libya’s Human Rights Body Condemns Arrest of Poet Fayez Al-Arfi

Libya’s National Institution for Human Rights has strongly criticised the arrest of prominent poet Fayez Al-Arfi by members of the Internal Security Agency aligned with the country’s parallel Government. According to the institution, Al-Arfi was detained from his home in the eastern city of Al-Marj after reciting a poem in which he lamented worsening living […]

MIDEAST: Guterres Warns against “Irreversible One-state Reality” on the ground

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday against the creation in the Middle East of an “irreversible one-state reality” that is contrary to the solution advocated so far by the International community of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side. “The negative trends on the ground have the potential to create an irreversible one-state […]