The French parliament has formed a committee to investigate the “clandestine and suspicious role” of France in Libya, after US-manufactured French missiles were found at an airbase belonging to rogue Libyan General Khalifa Haftar earlier this month.

Reliable sources reported to Sudanese Radio Dabanga that the first batch of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have arrived in Libya in the oil crescent region to protect Libya’s oil installations in order to allow forces of Khalifa Haftar to concentrate all their power on the Tripoli attack.

The Tobruk-based, and internationally-recognized parliament of Libya, the House of Representatives (HoR) has referred the breakaway Tripoli HoR to the Public Prosecutor for accessing its bank account in Tripoli.

An estimated 1,000 fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia arrived in central Libya on Thursday, reportedly charged with protecting oil infrastructure to allow warlord Khalifa Haftar’s troops to focus solely on the ongoing offensive to seize Tripoli.

Authorities in Lebanon, on Tuesday, issued arrest warrants in absentia for ten Libyan defendants in the case of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa Al-Sadr and his two companions Mohammed Yaacoub and Journalist Abbas Badr.

Up to 150 people are feared to have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, while another 150 were rescued and are being returned to Libya, Reuters reported a spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR saying today.

Al-Jazeera Channel said it had obtained documents that prove Sudan used its airspace to transport hundreds of mercenaries, recruited by Mohammed Hamdan Delgo (Hemitti) – deputy head of military council in Sudan -, from the Arab tribes in Darfur as well as neighboring African countries to Libya, Yemen and Eritrea.

Libyan authorities on Wednesday released the crew of an Italian-flagged trawler and their vessel the day after they were seized at sea and questioned, officials said.

The Libyan coast guard says that it has intercepted about four dozen Europe-bound migrants off the Mediterranean coast.

Egyptian and Libyan sources unveiled, Tuesday, that the UAE national security advisor and brother of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Tahnoun bin Zayed, is overseeing a large-scale operation to bribe militias loyal to Tobruk parliament against the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, for fear of …