The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) is asking Washington to help it recover tens of billions of dollars in state assets that it alleges were stolen by the country’s former dictator Moammar Gaddafi and his cronies and stashed around the world, Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Elcano Royal Institute has warned that the new high-level electoral steering panel, established last February by the U.N. Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily, remains “partial and vulnerable to hijacking from members of the Libyan political elite who have little interest in a successful transition.”
The bodies of 17 migrants, who boat capsized in Mediterranean Sea, were recovered on Saturday by the Libyan Red Crescent off the coast of Sabratah, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.
The civil rescue ship Humanity 1 operated by the non-governmental organization SOS Humanity was navigating to the Emilia Romagna port city of Ravenna on Thursday after rescuing 69 migrants and refugees from a small rubber dinghy adrift in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Wednesday night.
The Libyan National Security Council has announced its rejection of “any projects that could potentially affect national security, especially regarding…
The General Command of the Libyan Army declared today that reports accusing the Libyan army of providing support to one…
The head of the Military Organization and Administration Authority in southern Libya, Abdelsalam Al-Busaifi, has warned that the ongoing clashes…
Reaching a consensual and comprehensive legislative framework for elections in Libya is the only path towards lasting peace, said Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.
“The stability of Libya and its neighbors is a priority for France,” stated the French embassy in Libya today following a briefing by U.N. Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily at the Security Council.
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity and other Libyan authorities are “cracking down on nongovernmental domestic and foreign organizations,” Human Rights Watch said today, calling on the government to withdraw “onerous registration and administration requirements and ensure that civic groups are free to operate.”