Tribal conflict and militia rule continue to be the largest impediments to ending Libya’s smuggling business. Though 252 Nigerian immigrants were repatriated from Libya to their home country on Jan. 9 and a regional African delegation visited detention centers to accelerate deportations from Libya, illegal immigration combined with a lack of rule of …

The United Nations has said it is “appalled” by apparent retaliatory killings in Libya following reports of eight bodies found in the eastern cities of Benghazi and Derna.

In recent months, it has been revealed that African migrants and refugees have been sold in open markets as slaves in Libya, and are held against their will in inhumane conditions in exchange for ransom money.

The Cipher Brief website reported on Friday that IS still maintains a strong presence in Libya and remains a potent regional threat, despite domestic and international efforts to oust the group from its stronghold.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, repeated in a statement, on Friday, her appeal to arrest the field commander of the Dignity Operation, Mahmud Al-Werfalli, after he executed ten prisoners without court against ten people in Benghazi, on Wednesday.

Sources from the Benghazi Medical Center confirmed receiving 12 bodies for men who were reported to have been found Friday morning in two locations on the roads of Al-Leethi and Tariq Al- Naher in Benghazi, eastern Libya. 

The UN Libya mission said it was alarmed by reports of “brutal and outrageous summary executions” in the eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, after pictures emerged appearing to show at least nine prisoners being shot dead at the site of a twin car bombing.

A local source in the city of Benghazi said, on Wednesday, that the field commander of the Dignity Operation, Mahmud Al-Werfalli, killed ten persons in front of Al-Redhwan mosque in Al-Salmani area in Benghazi without court.

The Libyan authorities on Tuesday freed a group of Sudanese migrants that were being held and tortured by suspected human trafficking gangs.

When some Libyans revolted in 2011 beginning in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, in what became known as the February 17 Revolution, there were no apparent leadership figures to represent them in what was seen as another episode of the so-called Arab Spring. Leaderless revolts against leaders of the day, and mostly corrupt …