Following G7 meeting, leaders of Libya’s rival governments congregate in Germany for first direct talks with hopes of reaching an agreement by Ramadan.

Libya’s internationally recognised parliament, based in the port city of Tobruk, has agreed to join a national unity government, but rejected a proposed power-sharing scheme with a rival government which controls the country’s capital, Tripoli.

For the first time, both sides in the UN-brokered Libya Dialogue process sat down at the same table to negotiate yesterday in Berlin where officials from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US and the EU as well as Russia and China, pressed them to accept the latest draft …

The first ever face-to-face talks between rival Libyan factions have been positive, with a deal still possible before Ramadan, the UN special envoy to Libya said on Wednesday.

The first ever face-to-face talks between rival Libyan factions have been positive, with a deal still possible before Ramadan, the UN special envoy to Libya said on Wednesday.

The Governments of China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, the UK, the USA, and the European Union issued a Joint Communique on Libya.

Naval ships from Italy, Britain, Ireland, and other European countries have set sail towards waters off Libya in preparation of a new wave of migrants heading for European shores.

A mad flurry of peace talks are underway to try and secure a deal to end Libya’s civil war before it reaches its anniversary next month: They will fail.

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Wednesday described as “constructive” her talks in Brussels a day earlier with Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed al-Dayri, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

In a hospital trauma ward in downtown Sebha, a decrepit city that’s a major migrant-smuggling hub in southern Libya, a man from Niger lay in a stupor, suffering from multiple fractures and a gangrened limb. He’d been here a week, since he was rescued from the Sahara after the vehicle …