Up to 20,000 mercenaries from the Russian private military company the Wagner Group as well as from Syria and Libya are fighting alongside Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, a European official said Tuesday.
The government will take deterrent steps against tampering with the wealth of the Libyan people, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has warned from Algeria, which he is currently visiting to discuss economic cooperation.
The Ministry of Interior of the Government of National Unity received on Monday, two out of six naval boats equipped with the latest technology from Italy.
The Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), is arbitrarily detaining at least nine peaceful protesters and a journalist incommunicado after they participated in a demonstration in Sirte, Amnesty International said today.
Russia’s Wagner Group, a shadowy paramilitary organisation tied to the Kremlin, has played a significant role in Libya, supporting renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) in the country’s civil war.
The U.N. Mission in Libya welcomed on Thursday the release of three Libyan public figures who were illegally detained for prolonged periods.
The official spokesman of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, said that the Audit Bureau sent a letter to the Central Bank of Libya approving the payment of LNA soldiers salaries, day after the statement of the army representatives at the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC).
The 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) members from west Libya rejected being part of political discourse and conflict of different parties, saying this would only take Libya back to square one.
In his capacity as Minister of Defense, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, has met with Chief of General Staff Mohammed Al-Haddad, and members of the Joint Military Commission 5 + 5 (JMC) for the western region.
The lawyer of Khalifa Haftar who is being sued in US courts for allegedly committing human rights abuses in Libya has requested to postpone his client’s interrogation sessions until May 9, due to his inability to undergo investigation, according to the head of the Libyan-American Coalition, Issam Omeish.
