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Libya has dropped its candidacy for the African Union Peace & Security Council seat for the 2022-2025 period in support of Morocco’s bid for the same post. The decision was announced by Libya’s foreign minister Najla Al-Mangoush during her telephone conversation held over the weekend with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. The PSC is the standing […]
Egypt is expected to re-open its embassy in Libya today Monday as a high key diplomatic delegation visits Tripoli for the second time since 2014. Libya’s foreign ministry’s spokesman Mohammed Al-Qablawi in a statement to Anadolu indicated that the delegation made of diplomats and security personnel would visit the Libyan capital and will re-open the […]
Libyan Tripoli-based administration, Government of National Accord (GNA), has inked a deal with European multinational aerospace corporation, Airbus, for the purchase of 10 helicopters to be used in the fight against criminality. Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord Fathi Bashagha announced the deal Saturday following his visit to France last week. The aircraft, […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita stressed the pre-eminence of the UN-brokered agreement in Skhirate in 2015 as a political way out of the Libyan in-fighting. The Skhirate Agreement should serve as a basis for political talks between the Libyan rivals, Bourita told the press after talks in Rabat with head of Libya’s High Council of […]
Direct talks between two opposing Libyan delegations began this Monday, October 19 in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations. Ten members of the military and security commission, representing the Government of National Unity (Tripoli) and the Libyan National Army (Benghazi), are to continue talks until October 24 to achieve a lasting ceasefire in […]
Aguila Saleh, the head of the Libyan Parliament based in Tobruk, was in Cairo on Monday 10 August. In addition to his Egyptian meetings, he met several European ambassadors, as well as Richard Norland, the US ambassador to Libya. Washington recently launched a proposal for a return to political discussions among Libyans. It consists of […]
An opposition group in Chad has accused forces aligned with rebel and retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar for the killing of its leader last week, Libya Observer reports. Republican Party said its leader Gorbal Jadi Nakour was assassinated on April 18 alongside with his body guard. Without providing evidence, the party, the Libyan media reports, has […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has underlined Tunis’s unified position with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli after his defense minister tagged the fragile Libyan government as militia”, reports say. Tension has emerged this week between Tunisia and Libyan after Tunisian defense minister, Imed Hazgui, in comments to a local TV station, called forces […]
Government of National Accord (GNA) leader Faiez Serraj Wednesday ruled out possibilities to sit down again at a negotiation table with his rival Khalifa Haftar that he accused of committing crimes against all Libyans. In an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica, published Wednesday, Serraj charged the east-based retired military General with bombing “indiscriminately Tripoli, residential […]
Algeria’s foreign ministry Wednesday denied Prime Minister’s criticism of Khalifa Haftar whom he said is nothing “compared to the holiness and greatness of Libya as well as to its regional and international significance”. Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi during a meeting with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) interior minister Fathi Pashagha was quoted for tirade […]