Three individuals were arrested by the National Police last Tuesday, February 1, for their alleged participation in a crime of financing terrorism in Libya, according to a report by Euro Weekly News.
The Public Prosecution has ordered the detention of a number of prison officers and guards at the Kuwaifia prison in Benghazi, in light of the investigation into the escape of eight prisoners, including 4 sentenced to death.
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President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, called on the African Union to support the mechanism for removing mercenaries and foreign forces from Libyan territory.
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U.S. Ambassador and Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, met with delegations of Tebu and Ahaalis from Murzuq in Southern Libya and congratulated them on their dialogue initiative led under the auspices of the National Network of Mediators, launching a peace process that would solve one of Libya’s biggest displacement crises, according to US Embassy in Libya.
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Forming a new interim government is a “provocation” against Libya people and would lead to “division”, Libyan political analyst Mohammed Al-Hangari told the press on Friday.
Libya was elected as second deputy of the African Union’s presidency for 2022 during the union’s 35th summit in Addis Ababa, according to the statement by the Libyan Foreign Ministry on Saturday.
Mohamed al-Menfi, Chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, held talks on Friday with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on the sidelines of African Union Summit in Ethiopia.
Jose Sabadell, the Head of the European Union’s Mission in Libya, and Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), had met in Benghazi for talks on the security situation in the country, Sabadell stated via Twitter on Saturday.
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, said that no specific name has been proposed to replace the former UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, who resigned two months ago, noting that the most important task now is to achieve elections in Libya.