Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has not returned to Libya to resume her duties for nearly a month due to a dispute between her and Ibrahim Dbeibeh, an advisor and cousin to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a Libyan press reports.
A team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has treated 68 people who were injured during a mass arrest two days ago in Libya, when hundreds of migrants asking for protection were taken to a detention center in Ain Zara, MSF operations manager Ellen van der Velden said.
Several members of Libya’s House of Representatives called on the Attorney-General to launch an investigation into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, met in Tunis today with Russian Chargé d’Affaires Jamshed Boltaev for talks on the Libyan elections, the U.S. Embassy in Libya said.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh denies latest press reports which alleged that he met with David Barnea, the Head of the Israeli foreign intelligence body Mossad, in Jordan.
UN Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said she discussed latest developments in Libya with UAE Ambassador to Libya, Mohammed Alshamsi, where they stressed the need to coordinate efforts to maintain the elections momentum according to the LPDF roadmap endorsed by the UN Security Council.
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U.S. Ambassador and Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, said his country “strongly supports pursuing a path that can lead to free, fair, and inclusive elections within the 18 month timeframe of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) road map.”
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The Libyan National Army (LNA) has closed the border crossing with Sudan and Chad until further notice, according to LNA’s Subul al-Salam Brigade in al-Kufra city, southeastern Libya.
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Israeli Mossad Director David Barnea recently met in Jordan to discuss “normalization and security cooperation”, Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported today.