Libya’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said on Monday he escaped a “well-planned” assassination attempt on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Tripoli based Libyan Minister of Defence, Salah Namroush yesterday announced that he had put measures in place to secure Tripoli after the alleged assassination attempt on Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha.

The designated head of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, accompanied by the members of the Presidency Council, Musa Al-Koni and Abdulla Al-Lafi, met with designate prime minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba in Tripoli yesterday.

The Head of the Central Committee of Municipal Elections, Salim bin Tahiya, said North Tripoli Court had approved the Central Tripoli Municipality elections.

Libya’s Tripoli Interior Minister, Fathi Bashagha, survived an attack on his motorcade in Tripoli today. He was on his way home in the western outskirt of Janzur.

The head of Libya’s new Presidency Council, Mohamed Menfi, arrived in Tripoli for the first time since he was selected on 5 February in Geneva by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF).

The pro-Haftar politician, Aguila Saleh, has proposed a change in capital. However, critics see this as yet another obstacle towards peace.

More than 100 MPs have agreed to hold a session in the city of Sabratha (75 kilometers west of Tripoli) to give confidence to the national unity government, which would be presented by the elected prime minister, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, within days, according to MP, Muhammad al-Ra’id.

Brigadier-General Khaled Hanqa has been killed in a landmine explosion in the area of Ain Zara, south of Tripoli, the Military Engineering Department of the Government of National Accord (GNA) reported on Tuesday.

The Tripoli Protection Force (TPF), the city’s coalition of its main militias, recognized by the internationally recognized Libyan government based in the country’s capital, announced yesterday that it rejects the outputs and the method of voting used by the UNSMIL-brokered Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to agree on a selection …