The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed its concerns regarding the recent issue of ‘death sentences’ by military courts in Eastern Libya.

An armed military group, affiliated with one of Khalifa Haftar’s sons, stormed the headquarters of the Brega Oil Marketing Company in Benghazi yesterday morning, expelling its Director, Khairallah Al-Ubaidi and replacing him.

Itamilradar website stated that it had tracked a USAF Boeing C-17A (callsign RCH223, reg. 09-9205) as it was making an unusual flight from the USA (Andrews AFB) to Benghazi, Libya, directly.

The Tripoli-headquartered National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced late last night two new Coronavirus cases in Libya, including the first in Benghazi.

Dr. Mohamed Ajram, an ophthalmologist in Benghazi, has disappeared after criticizing the authorities in the eastern region over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Three people were injured when a random shell fell in a neighbourhood in the Laithi area of Benghazi, Al-Jala Hospital of Benghazi has confirmed.

UNSMIL today expressed its deep concerns over the recent increase in abductions and enforced disappearances in towns and cities across Libya conducted by armed groups with total impunity. It renewed its call for the full respect of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by parties to this conflict.

The Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has warned of a health disaster after Syria’s Cham Wings Airliner has opened an office in Benghazi, bringing people from Coronavirus-hit areas into the eastern region.

A shipment of jet fuel has been imported into eastern Libya from the United Arab Emirates in breach of an arms embargo and other international agreements, Libya’s NOC state oil company said on Monday, reports Reuters.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj on Thursday, a German government spokesman said in a statement, urging him to move quickly towards signing a ceasefire, Reuters reports.