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Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were in a long list of countries the CIA spied on using encryption company for 50 years, in a case that came to be known as the century’s intelligence coup, the Washington Post reported. Over half a century, from the 1970s on, governments and their intelligence security agencies across the globe […]
The United Nations Wednesday deplored refusal by forces aligned with renegade Khalifa Haftar to allow UN flights land in Tripoli noting that the move impedes the UN humanitarian and peace efforts in the crisis-hit North African country. “The UN in Libya regrets that its regular flights that transport our staff to and from Libya have […]
A US law firm representing six Libyan families has filed a lawsuit against retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar for war crimes in Libya where relatives of the plaintiffs were allegedly “murdered”. Martin F. McMahon & Associates said in a press release having lodged complaint in the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia against Haftar. […]
Envoy of the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Abdulhadi Lahouij, held talks Friday in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, while Khaled Mechri, President of the High Council of State, had a phone talk with Bourita the same day. Talks covered the latest developments in Libya. According to press reports, the Libyan […]
The Libyan rival sides meeting in Geneva at the level of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission agree on the need to abide by a lasting and permanent ceasefire after months of conflict in the suburbs of Tripoli. The armed conflict around Tripoli erupted last April when self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), led by […]
President of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, who is the chairman of the African Union High Level Committee on Libya deplored that Morocco was not invited to the Berlin Conference, and recalled that “it is in Skhirat (in Morocco) that the United Nations had set up the Libyan institutions currently recognized by the international community.” The […]
Morocco has denounced, Thursday in Brazzaville, the “cynical interventionism” of certain parties in Libyan domestic affairs, to the detriment of the higher interest of the Libyan people, underscoring that the solution to the conflict cannot be reached militarily, but through a political, inclusive, and structured dialogue. The situation in the North African country is […]
Sudan has launched a probe into the alleged recruitment of Sudanese nationals by an Emirati firm as security guards, but who end up as mercenaries in Libya and Yemen. Hundreds of Sudanese held a sit-in Tuesday in front of the foreign ministry in capital Khartoum to protest against contracts given to their children by UAE-based […]
UN Secretary General personal envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame, highlighted Morocco’s role in pushing for a peaceful solution to the Libyan crisis. Salame had briefed Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bouirta on the latest developments in Libya during a phone conversation. He also commended “the continued interest of the Kingdom of Morocco to support UN actions […]
Forces controlled by renegade commander Khalifa Haftar Wednesday imposed no-fly zone over capital Tripoli and neighborhoods and threatened all aircraft including civilian jets. Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesman for Haftar’s forces, in action since April to seize the seat of the UN-backed Government of National Accord, GNA, on social media said no-fly zone expands from Giryan, 120 […]