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Over 100 migrants freed from captivity in eastern Libya amid rising trafficking concerns

More than 100 migrants, including five women, have been rescued from captivity in Ajdabiya, eastern Libya, where they were being held and tortured by a human trafficking gang demanding ransom payments. Libya’s attorney-general confirmed on Monday, July 14 that the criminal group had been orchestrating the smuggling, detention, and abuse of migrants to extort their […]

Japan’s Yokogawa opens subsidiary in Morocco

Japanese electrical and industrial automation company Yokogawa opened its African subsidiary in Casablanca in a bid to expand in Morocco and the continent.   In Morocco, the company targets industrial clients in the fields of energy and chemical, pharmaceutical, agri-food industries as well as waste and sewage water treatment.   The group generates a turnover […]

Libya: International Community Willing to Arm GNA

The United States and other major powers Monday in Vienna agreed to train and supply weapons to the UN-backed Libyan unity government to help it overcome the Islamic State (IS.) Libyan nominal Prime Minister has been calling for lifting the arms embargo imposed on the country five years ago. Faiez Serraj on Sunday in a […]