High summer temperatures and widespread power cuts varying from 10 to 16 hours over the last week have led to calls for non-aligned public demonstrations next Friday 1 July. Activists have asked the public to cease being apathetic and call for their rights.
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Damascus, Tripoli, Algiers world’s ‘least liveable’ cities
Damascus, Tripoli and Algiers are among the four least liveable cities in the world, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index 2022.
Read More »Menfi: Ready to adopt proposals that would help break the impasse
The Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Muhammad Menfi, has reiterated the council’s readiness to adopt any proposal that contributes to resolving the political stalemate in Libya.
Read More »Out of Libya: Opening safe pathways for migrants stuck in Libya
Since the start of MSF’s migration projects in Libya in 2016, we have repeatedly faced the same challenges: the impossibility of protecting migrants inside Libya, of ensuring continuity of care for serious physical and mental conditions, and of rehabilitating victims of torture. Whether inside or outside detention centres, MSF medical …
Read More »Journal of Quantitative Description Article Examines Bias in Social Media about Haftar’s 2019 Tripoli Offensive
On 3 June, Shelby Grossman, Kate Jonsson, Lydia Sizer, and Nicholas Lyon’s article ‘Slanted Narratives, Social Media, and Foreign Influence in Libya’ was published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.
Read More »Algeria, Libya migrant pushbacks ‘inhumane’, MSF says
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday denounced the “inhumane treatment” of West African migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya to neighbouring Niger as they try to reach Europe.
Read More »172 cases of extrajudicial killings were committed throughout the country, NCHRL says
172 cases of extrajudicial killings were committed throughout the country, during the past five months between January and May of this year, the head of the The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL), Ahmed Abdel Hakim said.
Read More »Libya: Russia’s Wagner Group Set Landmines Near Tripoli
New information from Libyan agencies and demining groups links the Wagner Group to the use of banned landmines and booby traps in Libya in 2019-2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The Wagner Group, a private Russian military security contractor with apparent links to Russia’s government, backed Khalifa Hiftar’s Libyan Arab …
Read More »Tebu concerned over suspicious movements in Qatrun
A force affiliated with Khalifa Haftar’s militias has been roaming the desert town of Qatrun, south of Libya, under the pretext of searching for “wanted” people, a local source who spoke on the anonymous condition has confirmed.
Read More »Political, social leaders in Cyrenaica call for activating 1951’s constitution, in meeting with HoR Speaker
The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, met in al-Qubba, a number of political and social leaders in the Cyrenaica region.
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