Following violence towards refugees and migrants held in two detention centres in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders-MSF) announced on Tuesday that it will temporarily suspend its activities in Mabani and Abu Salim detention centres.

After years of fighting and upheaval, Libya may again finally have a tenuous opening to a more stable future. The Second Berlin Conference on Libya, held on June 23, 2021, is an important milestone on Libya’s path out of years of civil war and political gridlock.

After a conference on Libya’s political future ended without a concrete plan for the withdrawal of foreign forces, a top US diplomat expressed optimism but said Washington is “realistic” about what can be achieved ahead of elections later this year.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Alexeyevich Ryabkov said that “positive changes in Libya are not easy to achieve, due to the failure to implement all the provisions of the roadmap, stipulated in Security Council Resolution No. (2570)”.

The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, stressed Thursday to the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the urgency to remove all foreign forces and mercenaries and armed groups from Libya to achieve security.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday announced that “the initial group of UN ceasefire monitors will be deployed to Tripoli soon.”

The Official Spokesperson for the House of Representatives (HoR), Abdulla Belheeg, announced yesterday that the next session of the House of Representatives will be next Monday (28 June).

Libya’s transitional government underlined its commitment to holding elections on December 24 at a conference Wednesday with powers that have interests in the North African country, while the German hosts vowed to keep up pressure until all foreign forces have been withdrawn from Libya.

A series of U.S. Embassy/USAID surveys show overwhelming Libyan demand for peace, unity and elections, the U.S. Embassy said yesterday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday in remarks to Berlin II Conference that full implementation of a historic ceasefire agreement and the withdrawal of foreign forces are critical for consolidating peace in Libya, underlining the support for the Libyan-led ceasefire monitoring mechanism, with the first group of UN monitors …