The Libyan government has decreed to dissolve the controversial state Libyan Media Foundation, and transfer the affiliation of the state local media and channels to the Prime Minister’s Office and its relevant ministries and bodies.

A woman named Eftikhar Abu Draa has had her hands burnt at Kuwifia prison in Benghazi by elements loyal to Khalifa Haftar’s forces, reported the Head of Victims Organization for Human Rights, Nasser Al-Hawari.

According to a Facebook analysis, Moscow was the world’s top provider of false information and misleading data between 2017 and 2020, with the United States, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Libya, and Sudan being the most prominent victims.

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day yesterday, Libya’s prime minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, issued his decision No. 63 granting an annual merit award to the press.

According to ‘Reporters Without Borders’, Libya has been ranked 165th in 2021, which is at the lower end of the list for the World Press Freedom Index 2021, which assesses the state of press freedom in 180 countries annually.

The Libyan Media Corporation (LMC) announced that the state-run Libyan News Agency (LANA) that had been split into two entities since 2014 has been reunified.

A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the end of his regime’s stranglehold on information, hopes for a free media remain a mirage.

A new report details how online abuse experienced by Libyan women has grown steadily in recent years, often escalating to physical attacks, with no laws in place to combat the problem.

At a Tripoli press conference Sunday, the head of the Libyan Media Foundation, Mohamed Baiyu, declared the decision by the Tripoli Audit Bureau to suspend him from his role as a precautionary measure as null and void. He called the act an arbitrary measure due to the lack of capacity …

Libya’s state media network of television and radio channels are to be reorganized, unified and rebranded under the acronym: TAL