Forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) have arrested over a thousand migrants in Tobruk and Musaid, in the east of the country, LNA’s press office announced on Wednesday.
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The Libyan border guards in charge of securing the Libyan-Tunisian borders have managed to find 14 migrants who were lost in the desert near the Tunisian border, reports the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of Unity (GUN).
Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held a security meeting on Wednesday to follow the progress of the military operation “to counter criminal gangs, drug and arms trafficking […] and fuel smuggling ” in the coastal regions of northwestern Libya, according to a statement by Dbeibeh’s media office.
The commander of the Libyan western military region, Major General Osama Al-Juwaili, commented on the drone strikes on sites that the unity government said belonged to human traffickers and fuel smugglers.
The Undersecretary of the Libyan Interior Ministry, Faraj Qaim, and the Chief of Staff of the Border Guard, Major General Moftah Shaqlouf, held an extensive meeting with the security leaders in Amsaad, against the background of the security events that took place in the Libyan-Egyptian border area in Amsaad on Tuesday night between the border guards and smugglers.
The Chairman of the Libyan Parliament’s Foreign Committee, Youssef Al-Aqouri, confirmed during his meeting with the British Ambassador to Libya, Caroline Hurndall, the importance of British companies return to invest in Libya in the oil field and reconstruction.
Libya’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned an attack on its embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, whose buildings were ransacked and looted.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 726 migrants, including women and children, were rescued and returned to Libya during the past week.
Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita announced the country’s potential plan to open consulates in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, reports Morocco World News, an online newspaper.
According to a government source who spoke to The Libya Update, the head of the Presidential Council, also known as…