The head of Libya’s High National Elections Commission (HNEC), Emad al-Sayeh, announced at a press conference yesterday in Tripoli the opening of registration for candidacy for the presidential and parliamentary elections starting tomorrow.

The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Libya, Jan Kubis, said that the first group of international monitors for the Libyan ceasefire started work in Tripoli on October 10, until arrangements for their deployment in Sirte are completed.

A military commission made up of rival camps in Libya’s conflict has agreed on a roadmap for the departure of foreign fighters, the United Nations said Friday after talks in Geneva.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes have been committed in Libya, while violence perpetrated in prisons and against migrants there may amount to crimes against humanity, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya says in a report published today.

In a new blow to UN-backed peace efforts, 89 MPs in Libya’s eastern-based parliament voted to withdraw confidence from Tripoli-based administration.

The Libyan High Council of State (HCS) approved a constitutional basis for legislative and executive authorities’ elections. The basis was prepared by Elections Law Committee of the HCS and it contained 63 articles.

The spokesman for the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdullah Blehiq, said an agreement was reached at the HoR on a bill that allows the Libyan people to directly elect their president, saying the bill was sent to the legislative and constitutional committee for a final draft.

New details have emerged about the role in Libya of the Russian mercenary group Wagner and what appears to be its high-level state support.

Libya’s eastern commander Khalifa Haftar has said his forces will “not submit” to any state authority, days after the US ambassador to the country said the strongman could play a role in unifying the military establishment.

The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced the launch of what it called the first phase of the 24 December 2021 electoral process with the inauguration of the voter registration system.