While Macron’s pivot has created new political space for France-Africa engagement on more equal footing, the French president’s vision of mutual aid and reciprocal partnerships between France and African countries remains unfulfilled.
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Italy prepares for international meeting on Libya before June 22
Italian Nova news agency said Rome is preparing for an international meeting that includes the US, UK, France, Germany, Turkey and Egypt to find a solution to the Libyan crisis.
Read More »132 asylum-seekers evacuated from Libya
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) evacuated on Tuesday a group of 132 vulnerable asylum seekers out of Libya to Rwanda.
Read More »Algeria, Libya migrant pushbacks ‘inhumane’, MSF says
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday denounced the “inhumane treatment” of West African migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya to neighbouring Niger as they try to reach Europe.
Read More »Stefano Marcuzzi authors brief on the EU’s role in Libya’s conflict
Stefano Marcuzzi, Senior Analyst at Libya-Analysis and analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation, published ‘The role of the EU in the Libyan conflict since 2011’, for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean, Libya Brief no. 11. Marcuzzi explored Libya’s continuing open transformation process characterised by two …
Read More »The spectre of armed conflict looms over Libya
Ahead of the failed 24 December elections last year, Libya had been seeking to install an elected government.
Read More »All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
Few things have plagued western policymakers more this century than the tricky dilemmas in deciding when and when not to intervene militarily in a crisis, and then how to manage the aftermath.
Read More »Judiciary police personnel suspend strike after government’s positive response
The personnel of the Libyan judiciary police suspended their strike that was announced in all branches across the country, adding in a statement that the suspended strike was a result of communication with the Government of National Unity, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Finance to tackle the demands of …
Read More »172 cases of extrajudicial killings were committed throughout the country, NCHRL says
172 cases of extrajudicial killings were committed throughout the country, during the past five months between January and May of this year, the head of the The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL), Ahmed Abdel Hakim said.
Read More »727 migrants returned to Libya last week – IOM
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that 727 migrants were returned to Libya after being rescued off the country’s coast from May 22 to 28.
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