U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, has congratulated a group of 20 Libyan Customs, Passport, and Counter-terrorism officers in Tunis for a Smuggling Interdiction training through the Embassy’s Export Control and Border Security program.
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Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, stressed Tuesday that the political and institutional divide opened the door wide to financial and administrative corruption.
Spokesman for the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdulla Bliehiq, announced that participants in the Sirte meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, started to arrive.
Head of Chad’s Transitional Military Council, Mohamed Idriss Deby, said that southern Libya has become a space for chaos and a hotbed for terrorists and criminal gangs due to the proliferation of weapons of all kinds, as he put it.
Europe has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands of migrants in Libya held in arbitrary detention in “deplorable conditions”.
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.
Tripoli-based Coast Guard and Port Security managed in two separate operations to rescue 168 migrants of several nationalities, who were on their way to European shores, according to the Army’s Chief of Staff in Tripoli.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, spoke with the outgoing Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, by phone on Tuesday “to discuss maintaining stability and calm in Libya,” according to U.S. Embassy.
Two Airbus aircrafts of the Turkish Air Force coming from Ankara were expected to land at the al-Watiya airbase in western Libya Wednesday afternoon, reported ItaMilRadar, a website tracking military flights over Italy and the Mediterranean Sea.
Italian News Agency Nova said that the Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, received a warning to hand over power to the designated Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, by May 26.