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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
Forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) have taken over a large part of the city of Benghazi from the extremist religious fighters as the battle for the city control intensified since the beginning of the year. The central districts Read more
Russia has sent a strong message to the world for its support to Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), by taking him on an official tour on Read more
A Deputy Prime Minister in the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has resigned citing the failure to attain the objectives of their mission. “I hereby announce my resignation for the Libyan people because I have failed and hence I Read more
Russia has hinted that it supports Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar of the Libya National Army, loyal to the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), saying he has a fundamental role in the formation of “the new Libyan leadership.” Deputy Foreign Minister Read more
UN Special Envoy for Libya Martin Kobler expressed his disappointment in the “stalled” implementation of the Libya Political Agreement (LPA) reached in Morocco in December 2015 during a briefing with the UN Security Council. After succeeding Bernadino Leon in November Read more
Libya’s black markets have registered an unprecedented surge in the rates of the foreign currencies in exchange of the Libyan dinar over the weekend; further increasing the differences between the Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj of the UN-Backed Government of National Read more
Tensions are still high in Tripoli as the battle for the control of the capital and the parliament continues between the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the National Salvation Government (NSG) supported by a coalition of Islamist groups Read more
Egypt’s former assistant foreign minister for Arab Affairs, Ahmed al-Quesni, said Cairo could intervene in neighboring Libya militarily to safeguard its own national security and stability. “Egypt will not let the oil ports be taken away from the Libyan people” Read more