Libyan tribesmen staged a demonstration at the eastern oil port of Hariga on Thursday in protest against the appointment of a government minister, a leading member of the tribe said, Reuters reports.

The spokesperson of the General Command of the Khalifa Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA), Brigadier General Ahmed Mesmari, said that meetings on the reunification of the Libyan military forces into one regular, politically accountable army resumed in Cairo on Wednesday.

The warden of Ghirnada Prison in Shahat, eastern Libya, has ordered that visitors of the notorious prison commanded by the Libyan self-styled army should be locked down.

“The daily life of Libyans is just a matter of survival,” says Abdullah. He speaks with a tense voice, as if the fear of being heard never leaves him in the few minutes that the internet connection allows us to talk at the phone.

A Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade commander was murdered in Tripoli on Monday night. Khairi Hankora was shot dead by gunmen outside Radisson Blu (Mahari) Hotel at midnight.

Eastern Libyan authorities have resumed an investigation into the unexplained killing of a rebel commander in the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, a case that could reopen old wounds.

Several members of the House of Representatives (HoR) called in a session on Monday for interrogating the commander of the self-styled army Khalifa Haftar, citing deteriorated security in areas under his control, adding that he is the only one who has information about what is happening in southern Libya.

Following his recent capture, a confession by Egyptian militant leader Hesham Ashmawy led to the Thursday discovery of a mass grave in a suburban area of Derna that contains the bodies of several key Al-Qaeda figures, according to a source in the Libyan Center for Judicial Experience.

The Mayor of the Municipality of Al-Sharqiyah in the south-west of the country, Amhamed Arab, has urged the authorities to intervene and put an end to the Chadian opposition gangs that are violating the south region.

The New Arab said the new Egyptian proposal for the unification of the Libyan military institution contains forming a military council that represents all political parties, including the Gaddafi regime.