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Two military personnel loyal to Eastern Libyan rebel General Khalifa Haftar died Sunday after 2 helicopters collided over the village of Msus, 130 kilometers southeast of the city of Benghazi. Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) controlled by Haftar said in a statement Sunday Brig. Gen. Bouzied al-Barrasi was among the two casualties. The crew of […]
Borders between Tunisia and Libya are to reopen this Friday Sept.17 after more than one month closure because of COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening decision came after the Tunisian and Libyan committees of security and health reviewed the situation and after ministerial delegations from the two countries agreed at a meeting in Djerba on security and […]
The Libyan authorities have been holding hundreds of Moroccan migrants for months in inhumane detention conditions without legal justification, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a press release issued Wednesday. “The Libyan government is obligated in accordance with relevant international conventions and norms to treat these detainees with dignity, provide them with adequate shelter, and […]
The UN Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to extend the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until the end of the month. “The situation in Libya continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,” the Security Council said in its resolution of UNSMIL 15-day mandate extension. Both the US and Russia backed the […]
The UN special envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, and the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, have stressed again the need to respect the electoral process in Libya and the elections schedule set for December 24. After a meeting in Rabat on Monday sept.13, Bourita, and the UN Special Envoy for Libya and head […]
Libya has signed multiple billion-dollar contracts with a number of Egyptian companies to set up power stations in the oil-rich country. Salama Al-Ghwail, Libya’s State Minister for Economic Affairs, told Egyptian media the contracts are worth between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. Al-Ghwail said Egyptian companies should win between 60 to 70% of the reconstruction […]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is secretly expanding its presence in the Sahara Desert to monitor Islamist groups operating in the region while using Libya as base, the New York Times reported. The US media noted in its story published Saturday that Washington had established partnerships, described as fruitful, with local partners in Libya. […]
Germany Thursday reopened its embassy in Libya after seven years of closure as the European country aims to increase diplomatic presence in the war-torn African country set on a path of December elections and reconstruction. “Today, we want to show with the reopening that Germany is and will remain a committed partner of Libya,” said […]
Libya lost one trillion dollars due to the instability that engulfed the oil rich country from 2011 to 2020, Libyan Minister of Economy Mohamed Hwej has revealed. Libya descended into chaos in 2011 following a NATO-backed revolution that ousted and murdered leader Muammar Gaddafi. Subsequent efforts to unify the country had failed due to rivalry […]
The Libyan government announced Tuesday the arrest of the leader of the Islamic state group (ISIS), Embarak Al Khazmy, during a counter-terrorism operation in the city of Bani Walid, some 180 km east of capital Tripoli. Khazmy is described head of accommodation of ISIS terrorists in Bani Walid when ISIS controlled some areas in Libya. […]