The European Union announced on Tuesday the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the UN arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants to Europe’s shores.

The European Union (EU) and the United States yesterday called for a humanitarian truce in Libya’s fighting in order for the country to focus on fighting the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

The European Union will launch a new Mediterranean naval and air mission in April to stop more arms reach warring factions in Libya, EU diplomats said on Thursday, with Greece agreeing to take in any migrants rescued at sea.

Newly appointed Acting SRSG and UNSMIL head, Stephanie Williams, joined the UN delegation to the African Union’s Contact Group meeting on Libya, in Oyo, Congo from 11-12, UNSMIL reported yesterday.

Three African heads of state, the African Union chief, and a senior UN envoy met on Thursday in Republic of Congo in the latest attempt to broker talks over Libya’s crisis.

UNSMIL said in a statement Monday that a second round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission (JMC) talks concluded on February 23 at the Palace of Nations in Geneva in the presence of UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame. UNSMIL said the JMC is one of the three tracks …

The Libyan Consulate in Milan, has called upon all Libyan citizens residing in Northern Italy to be vigilant, and to take precautions in light of the current spread of the coronavirus in that area, the numbers of which are increasing and have reached 152 infected with 3 deaths confirmed to …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has announced that the proposed plan of action by the European Union banning the flow of arms to Libya will not succeed in its current form, particularly at the land and air borders in the eastern region.

EU foreign ministers said on Monday that they have agreed to launch a new mission in the Mediterranean Sea to enforce a United Nations arms embargo on Libya that is currently routinely flouted.

Violations of an arms embargo in Libya have become a joke and those who breach it must be held to account, a senior UN official has said.