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The Libyan justice system has been strongly criticized in a report issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) lamenting the trial of senior officials of the Read more
Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) and Presidency Council (PC) Faiez Serraj Monday escaped assassination attempt as his motorcade underwent gun fires in capital Tripoli. Serraj, according to local media reports, was travelling with Head of the Read more
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar has accused Western countries of fueling the conflict in Libya by supporting terrorist groups operating in the country. The Head of the Libyan National Army, loyal to the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), made these allegations Read more
Head of Libyan unity government Faiez Serraj has sent a formal request to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to help beef up security and defenses in Tripoli. The alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg Thursday said he received a formal request Read more
Diplomatic sources at the Algerian Foreign Ministry have denied Algiers’s support for the Leader of the Tunisian Islamist movement in his efforts to unite Gaddafi’s loyalists and Muslim Brotherhood movement in Libya, reports say. Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Tunisian Read more
Details of a failure of mediation efforts between Libya’s Prime Minister-designate Fayez Serraj of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army in Cairo, spearheaded by Egyptian chief-of-staff Colonel Lt. Gen. Read more
The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Presidency Council (PC) have slammed the creation of the Libyan National Guard (LNG) purportedly by the Government of National Salvation (GNS) as a move “to lead the capital into bloody armed Read more
The new UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has informed the UN Security Council of his intention to appoint Salam Fayyad as his Special Envoy for Libya. The letter was sent to the Security Council on Thursday and it immediately raised Read more
UN Special Envoy for Libya, Martin Kobler, told the UN Security Council that this year should be the “year of decisions and political breakthrough” for the North African country that has been marred with chaos since 2011. While admitting that Read more
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army expressed hope that his LNA will get the support of the USA in helping to lift the “unjust” UN arms embargo imposed on the country. In an interview with French media Read more