More than 1,300 irregular migrants have reached Italy’s Lampedusa island over the past two days, local media reported on Saturday.
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Italian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a Syrian citizen accused of attempting to ship to Libya and Saudi Arabia 14 tons of Captagon and three tons of hashish, which were seized in 2020 in the port of Salerno.
Libyan leaders and foreign parties, especially Egypt and Turkey, must understand that the solution of the Libyan crisis is in their hands, said the former United Nations envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams.
Algeria has renewed its rejection of the “logic of force in resolving the Libyan crisis”, condemning the persistence of foreign interference in the internal affairs of this country and “the involvement of a number of external parties in violation of the embargo on weapons”.
UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, said he met in Moscow with Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, where they discussed the current situation in Libya and the challenges facing the restoration of the electoral process.
EUBAM reported Monday that it had organised a basic level training course on document security for 12 senior Libyan officers from Ras Ajdir and Wazen land border crossing points, and Mitiga air border crossing point.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, held consultations in Berlin yesterday with the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, on the political and security situation in Libya, in the presence by the German government’s special envoy for the Libyan question, Christian Bock.
An inflatable rubber boat carrying migrants wrecked off the coast of Libya and 73 people were missing and presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday. It was the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking better lives in Europe.
Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, and Resident Representative of the UN Development Program (UNDP) in Libya, Marc-André Franche, agreed on Wednesday in Tripoli to extend partnership to support free and fair elections as the only path forward to resolve the political stalemate, according UNDP in Libya.
Al-Marj, east of Benghazi, was hit by a slight earthquake, felt by most of the city’s residents.