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The Italian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that four of its citizens still in Libya have been kidnapped in the western city of Mellitah on an industrial sites owned by the Italian oil company Eni. The four victims are according to the Ministry statement working for Bonatti Construction Company. They were abducted on Sunday evening […]
The European Union (EU) is planning to impose sanctions on any of the warring parties in Libya that refuses to agree to the U.N-brokered peace deal propelled by Special Envoy Bernardino Leon. E.U foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has already discussed the matter with European foreign ministers and Leon. Details of the possible sanctions have […]
Abdul Magid Breish, once the undisputed leader of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), has warned that the country’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund should continue to be frozen “until we have total stability.” Four chairmen are claiming to be representing LIA for the past two years but Breish stressed that the two rival governments and armed […]
The number of Tunisian militants joining the Islamic State in Syria & Iraq is one of the highest among the foreign jihadists adhering to the radical terror group, warned lately the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries. “Sophisticated travel networks operate to take recruits across the porous borders, and sometimes through areas […]
President Beji Caid Essebsi has stated that he is interested in collaborating with partners that will help to solidify Tunisia’s security as he warned that attacking the wall being built at the Tunisian-Libyan borders will be considered as a threat to the country’s security. President Essebsi was speaking to private TV channel Attassia when he […]
Libya held the United Nations Security Council Libya Sanctions Committee responsible for the growing threat of the Islamic State in the country but U.N’s special envoy to Libya claimed that the failure to reach a national unity government has limited U.N’s role. Libya’s Ambassador to the U.N Ibrahim Dabbashi told the Security Council that the […]
Morocco’s King officially launched on Monday evening the Mohammed VI Foundation for African scholars tasked with boosting scientific and cultural reflection on Islam and spreading tolerant Islam in Africa. The foundation, which is part of Morocco’s strategy to fight extremism and religious fanaticism through spreading moderate Islam, is meant to foster coordination between all African […]
The United States is holding talks with North African countries to set up drones base to monitor the Islamic State in Libya wherein the terror group is expanding its influence and operations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing US administration officials. Installing such a North African base near Isis strongholds in Libya would […]
The political agreement signed by several Libyan negotiators in Morocco this weekend is a breakthrough towards a lasting peace in the North African country, although the Tripoli-based General National Congress has not initialled yet. Libya, which has been rocked by violence and fighting between rival armed groups competing for power since the fall of Gadhafi […]
Escalating tensions in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and the heavy civilian casualties have caught the attention of UN Special envoy Bernardino Leon who condemned the hostilities and warned concerned parties to refrain from such actions because it could lead to war crime charges. Benghazi hosts the highest number of internally displaced Libyans thereby […]