Category: Libya

Libya: The two governments dividedly fighting extremist groups

May 22, 2015

  Members of Libyan pro-government forces, which is backed by the locals, look on in an army camp, in Benghazi February 1, 2015. Violent clashes ... Read More

Libya disagrees with E.U on plan to combat illegal migration

May 19, 2015

The European Union has agreed on positioning a naval base in Italy to fight against illegal migration from the Libyan coast but the internationally recognized ... Read More

Libya: Countries should not undermine our authority, Tobruk government warns

May 14, 2015

The Tobruk based government has sounded what could be seen as a warning to European countries that are planning to fight against illegal migration through ... Read More

Libya: Saadi Gaddafi gets first hearing in Tripoli court

May 11, 2015

Libya has held its first Gaddafi trial on Sunday after Saadi Gaddafi appeared in a court in southern Tripoli. After being detained since March 2014 ... Read More

Egypt-Libya: Sisi welcomes abducted Ethiopians at Cairo airport

May 8, 2015

Egyptian President al-Sisi welcomed at the Cairo International Airport on Thursday 27 Ethiopians who had been abducted in Libya and who were freed thanks to ... Read More

Libya: Tobruk parliament signals green light to proposed draft

May 6, 2015

The internationally recognized Libyan parliament has preliminary approved the peace plan draft proposed by U.N envoy Bernadino Leon. The Tobruk-based House of Representatives posted the ... Read More

Libya: Irda freed by protesters, Wafa threatened

May 4, 2015

Protests at the port of Brega, eastern Libya, came to an end on Sunday after authorities reached a deal with the protesters thereby paving the ... Read More

Libya: Tripoli rejects proposed peace plan draft

April 30, 2015

The U.N led talks to end the war in Libya has been dealt a heavy blow after the rival government and parliament in Tripoli rejected ... Read More

MENA: EU launches €10 program to fight foreign terrorism

April 29, 2015

The European Union (EU) has launched a new €10 million program called ‘Countering radicalization and Foreign Terrorist Fighters’ aimed at helping “partner countries to counter ... Read More

UN Expert Urge Rich Countries to Act to Halt Boat Deaths offshore Libya

April 24, 2015

A UN expert has called on rich Western countries to take in some thousands of the Syrian and sub-Saharan migrants to end the tragedies of ... Read More