One organizer has been reported missing after pro-democracy and anti-corruption activists held demonstrations in Benghazi yesterday. The protests were reportedly hijacked by pro Hafter supporters who flooded the demonstrations.

Benghazi in eastern Libya has seen strict security measures and deployment of pro-Haftar armed men on main streets ahead of protests.

Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar has reportedly refused to release 18 Italian fishermen until Italy frees four Libyan footballers convicted of human trafficking.

According to the Libyan Crime Monitoring Organisation, 30 activists have been arrested in the city of Al-Marj since 12 September, following a wave of protests that have swept the area.

The Italian Foreign Ministry has rejected extortion over the Italian nationals detained in Libya’s Benghazi.

An interim government allied with Libya’s eastern-based renegade commander Khalifa Haftar has resigned amid protests over power cuts and deteriorating living conditions.

Demonstrations continued and spread in eastern Libya over the last three days.

Scores of people protested in Benghazi on Thursday over power cuts and living conditions, witnesses said, burning tyres and blocking some roads in an unusual public show of dissent in the eastern Libyan city, Reuters reports.

Dozens of protesters have rallied in Benghazi over deteriorating living conditions and power cuts, in a rare show of public dissent in Libya’s second-biggest city.

The World Health Organization in Libya (WHO) revealed on Thursday that an armed group near the western Libyan city of Zawia intercepted one of its hired trucks on its way to Benghazi and Tobruk to deliver WHO supplies. The armed group directed the driver to deliver the supplies to a …