Category: Libya

Libya: GNA Launches Probe in ‘Slave Market’ Allegations

November 20, 2017

The Deputy Head of the UN-backed Libyan Presidential Council Ahmed Maetig announced Sunday he is leading inquiries into allegations that African migrants stranded in the ... Read More

Libya: UN Envoy Confident Rival Governments Nearing Consensus

November 17, 2017

The Head of the UN Special Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, told the UN Security Council (SC) Thursday that the country’s two rival administrations have ... Read More

Libya: UN blasts EU-backed anti-migration plan over gross human rights abuses

November 15, 2017

The UN Tuesday lambasted in a report the EU-backed plan meant to fight illegal migration in Libya over the inhuman conditions prevailing in the camps ... Read More

Libya: Royalists Want UN to Consider Constitutional Monarchy as a Solution

October 26, 2017

A group of Libyans nostalgic of the country’s past and opposed to Gaddafi loyalists are pushing for the restoration of the 1969 constitution that existed ... Read More

Libya: Gaddafi’s son vows to sue Qatar before ICC

October 18, 2017

Saif Al-Islam, son of Mummar Gaddafi has vowed to drag Qatar before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the role the tiny rich Gulf country ... Read More

Libya: GNA-linked Militias Fight over Control of Oil Facility in Sabratha

October 9, 2017

Two militia groups linked to the UN-backed Government of National Accord have fought over the control of oil and gas terminal in the town of ... Read More

North African States Need Collective Efforts to Reduce Soaring Unemployment- UN Labor Agency

October 8, 2017

The International Labor Organization has warned that unemployment rate in North African states has hit unsustainable levels standing at 28.8%, twice the global average, and ... Read More

UN Sees Impending Demise of Maghreb Union

October 7, 2017

Eight months after the landmark speech of King Mohammed VI at the African Union Summit in which he deplored that the "flame of the Arab ... Read More

Libya: Daech claims responsibility for attack on court building in Misrata

October 5, 2017

The so-called Islamic State group (IS) Wednesday claimed credit for the attack on a court house in the city of Misrata in which four people ... Read More

Libya: British FM makes fun of dead bodies at conference

October 4, 2017

UK’s foreign minister Boris Johnson made news Tuesday disregarding dead bodies in Libya noting that the city of Sirte could become the next Dubai if ... Read More