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UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs has underlined the world body’s commitment to democratic elections in Libya, after field Marshal Khalifa Haftar declared that the oil-rich country is not ready for democracy and that he would overrun the country should reconciliation and proposed elections fail to go rightly. Jeffrey Feltman was in Tripoli Thursday where he […]
Presidential hopeful and head of the Libyan east-based army has told Paris-based Jeune Afrique that the North African country is not yet ready for democracy as the country marches towards elections later this year in a move to end years of instability. In an interview with the magazine, Haftar endorsed by the Tobruk-based House of […]
Migrants and particularly Sub-Saharans continue to risk everything for a better life in Europe. The number of those who lost their lives in the Mediterranean is rising dramatically. This weekend, at least eight people died and 86 others were rescued after their small inflatable boat sank off the coast of Libya, according to the Italian […]
Libya managed to reduce its budget deficit in 2017 thanks to a sharp rise in oil revenues totaling $14 billion, the Libyan Central Bank said. The exponential increase in oil revenues up from $4.8 billion in 2016 is still much below the $50 billion registered in Libya before the fall of Gaddafi’s rule. The Central […]
US Africa Command has warned against a terrorist plot being prepared by ISIS militants against Libya’s Oil Crescent, which is located 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, and includes the country’s largest oil reserves and export terminals. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, AFRICOM spokeswoman Robyn Mack said: “at the moment, we believe that […]
Reports of a pipeline explosion in Libya sent oil prices soaring to $60 a barrel, that is a two-and-a-half year highs. The blast reportedly sidelined 90,000 barrels a day of supply in a country that produced 973,000 barrels a day in Novem-ber. A Libyan military source said earlier that armed men had planted explosives at […]
Right after renegade general Khalifa Haftar declared the UN-brokered Skhirate Agreement “obsolete”, Libya’s neighbors, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt expressed support for the UN’s efforts to settle the infighting in the country. In a statement issued following a tripartite meeting, bringing together the foreign ministers of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, the three countries stressed that the […]
Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar who dis-missed a series of UN-led talks to bridge differences between Libya’s two rival administrations and who does not recognize the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord, said Sunday that the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) brokered by the UN is outdated and the institutions associated to it have lost le-gitimacy. […]
The mayor of the Libyan coastal city of Misrata Mohammed Eshtewi has been kidnapped and killed by gunmen shortly after his return from a visit to Turkey Sunday, and Misrata has begun this Monday three days of mourning. The local municipal council expressed its “deep sorrow and grief” at the killing. Its condemnation was swiftly […]
Amnesty International has denounced European governments’ inaction over the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained in Libya in appalling conditions. In a report published in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya, AI shed lights on how European governments are “actively supporting a sophisticated […]