This morning, the Ocean Viking rescued 84 people, including 58 unaccompanied minors, who were on an overcrowded rubber dinghy in international waters off the coast of Libya.
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UN Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, said he met Monday with France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, “to discuss political and security developments in Libya and the necessity for supporting a Libyan-Libyan process to facilitate inclusive, transparent elections in 2023.”
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 400 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the past week.
United States and Libyan authorities should clarify the legal basis for the abusive arrest and subsequent extradition to the US of a Libyan suspect in the 1988 deadly airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, Human Rights Watch said today.
Rwanda has renewed its partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Union (EU) for hosting asylum-seekers evacuated from Libya, authorities said.
Islamist politician Abdelhakim Belhaj believes that the solution to end the political deadlock in Libya is to hold parliamentary elections first, followed by presidential elections, as opposed to holding them both simultaneously as per the U.N. peace plan.
The Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, sent on Saturday tons of aid materials containing medicines and foodstuffs to both Syria and Turkey, to support the people affected by the earthquake that struck the two countries last Monday.
Benghazi is witnessing heavy security deployment of all security services, and closure of several main streets in the city, specially the streets leading to the Bohdema neighborhood.
Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush spoke on the phone yesterday with her Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar to congratulate him on his new role as successor to Othman Jerandi after the latter was dismissed by the Tunisian presidency on February 7.
Member of the Tripoli-based State Council, Abdul Salam Al-Safrani, commended the House of Representatives’ amendment to the draft constitutional document,…