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Libya’s new interim Prime Minister, Abdelhamid Dbeiba, announced on Thursday March 4 that he had announced the names of the members of his government formation in Parliament. A special session is scheduled for March 8 in Sirte to approve the Read more
UN support mission in Libya, UNSMIL, condemned Wednesday a mortar attack which killed one child and wounded 29 people in the Sebha region, south of the country, Anadolu news agency reports. The mission in a statement said it “strongly condemns Read more
Eastern Libyan authorities in Tobruk have freed 32 Egyptians kidnapped by criminal gangs reports say. The Egyptian nationals reportedly entered Libya illegal and were abducted by the alleged criminals who also blackmailed them. Egyptian media Al Youm Al Sabei citing Read more
A senior Turkish security official was in Tobruk, eastern Libya, to meet House of Representatives’ Speaker Aqila Saleh, French media Mondafrique reports. The Turkish official not named by the media, reportedly met Saleh, the political top figure of the eastern Read more
Egypt is sending a key delegation to Tripoli to meet with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Faiez Serraj, seeking to counter Turkey which has been present in the oil-rich country since last year. The delegation headed Read more
Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov chosen by the UN to become the global body’s Special Envoy to Libya, has informed the UN Chief that he will be unable to take up the job next year, due to “personal and family reasons”. Read more
A United Nations analysis of photos of four anti-tank guided missiles in Libya found that one “had characteristics consistent with the Iranian-produced Dehlavieh missile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council. However, the UN secretariat was “unable to ascertain Read more
The legal adviser of young Sudanese lured to get jobs in the United Arab Emirates but who ended up fighting in Libya on the side of war lord Khalifa Haftar, is preparing a lawsuit including human trafficking against 10 prominent Read more
The United Defense department, the Pentagon, has leveled charges against the United Arab Emirates, UAE, for its alleged financing of Wagner Group, a Russian security company currently present in Eastern Libya, Foreign Policy Magazine reports. The charges, the magazine notes, Read more
The Speaker of the Moroccan parliament gathered Sunday in the city of Tangiers rival Libyan lawmakers of the House of Representatives (HoR), in efforts to unify the legislature ahead of agreed Libyan elections of next year. 100 members of the Read more