Khalifa Haftar, the former General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), announced today that he will for president in the upcoming elections on December 24.
Khaled Al-Mishri, Chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, is allegedly plotting with armed groups to coercively close a number of polling centers across the country’s western region including in the municipalities of Al-Zawiya, Zliten, Tajoura, Al-Jabal and Souq Al-Juma, Libyan newspaper Al-Marsad reported on Monday.
The Libyan Ministry of Justice is planning to hold “in the coming weeks” a conference on “transitional justice and human rights”, which will be organized in coordination with the Supreme Judicial Council, according to a statement by the Presidential Council today.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, officially announced that he will run for president in the upcoming elections on December 24.
The Tripoli-based Coast Guard intercepted on Saturday 61 migrants of several African and Arab nationalities who were on their way to European shores on a rubber boat.
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Turkey has reservations about pulling troops from Libya but Russia has said it was willing to back a reciprocal withdrawal of foreign forces from the north African country, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.
World powers will push for sanctions against anyone who disrupts Libya’s political transition, their leaders agreed at a Paris conference on Friday aimed at ensuring the country sticks to a plan to hold elections in December.