Ageela Saleh, president of the House of Representatives (HoR) is in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Shaikh for the start of the Arab Parliament’s 2016 session which this year includes, for the first time, a joint session of the Arab and the Pan-African parliaments.
The EU has been authorized by the UN Security Council on Thursday to continue to intercept and seize boats carrying refugees in the Mediterranean close to Libya for another year.
IOM Libya, in coordination with the Libyan Coast Guard and Libyan Port Security, has established three fully equipped medical clinics at the country’s main migrant disembarkation points in Tripoli, Garaboli and Zliten.
Following the no-confidence vote from the House of Representatives (HoR), based in the north-eastern city of Tobruk, the UN-backed Government of National Accord led by Fayez al-Sarraj continues to face difficulty in mobilising support. Serraj has called for national reconciliation and announced that consultations have been launched to form a …
Faiez Serraj and other members of the Presidency Council (PC) arrived today in Tunis for the start of what is expected to be several days of intensive discussions on the composition of the new slimmed-down government of national accord (GNA).
The National Oil Corporation (NOC), the Libyan state-owned corporation in charge of Libyan oil exploration, operation, marketing and exportation, announced on 13 September the lifting of force majeure – previously imposed by NOC in August 2013 – at all oil crescent ports. NOC, thereafter, resumed its oil exportation. This positive …
After five months of battles against the Islamic State (IS) in the city of Sirte, the Operation “Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous” forces had started retreating despite the rapid advances they achieved.
The Faiez Serraj-led Presidency Council/Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) has failed to make any real progress since March because it depends on specific militias in Western Libya for its survival. As a result of this dependency, it has failed to tackle head-on the issue of creating a unified national army …
Former deputy prime minister Mustafa A.G. Abushagur is a member both of the House of Representatives and of the Libyan Political Dialogue as well as a co-signer of the Skhirat Agreement. He warns of efforts to restore military rule in the country and destroy the revolution that so many died for. …
The commanders and military officers of Wersheffana Brigade, western Libya, denounced, in a statement on Monday, the letter of General Khalifa Haftar to the army staff ordering the military units in the western Libya to stop dealing with any orders from General Omar Tantoush.
