The goal of the United States is for Libya to achieve a stable sovereignty free from foreign interference, said Ned Price, the U.S. State Department spokesman, a press conference in Washington yesterday.
Migrants held at Tripoli’s Ghout al-Shaal detention center managed to escape the facility yesterday due to inadequate security measures, according to a security force based in the capital.
Preparations are almost done for the upcoming Libyan elections on December 24, the head of the High National Election Commission (HNEC) says, despite “logistical problems” regarding the legislative framework.
Libyan guards shot dead six African migrants in a detention centre in Tripoli on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, denouncing “terrible” living conditions in the overcrowded place.
Libya’s House of Representatives will discuss on Monday, October 11, the adjustments requested by the High National Election Commission regarding the elections legislations, HNEC chairman Imad al-Sayeh told the press today.
Imad al-Sayeh, chairman of the High National Election Commission, held talks yesterday in Tripoli with Marc-André Franche, a representative for the U.N. Development Program in Libya, about preparations for the general elections scheduled for December 24.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio held a meeting yesterday in Rome with his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra to discuss the political transition process in Libya, according to the Italian foreign ministry.
France believes that it is “in everyone’s interest that Libyans respect their commitment to hold elections by the end of the year,” an Elysée source told Italian newspaper La Repubblica, adding that the European country made a demand to Turkey to “exert all its influence to reach the goal of the vote”.