The Libyan Presidential Council welcomed on Saturday the decision of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as his new special envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.
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Libyan armed factions fought in the western outskirts of Tripoli late on Friday and early Saturday as forces aligned with Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s government further consolidated their control over the capital.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday as the outgoing Libyan premier signals intent to boost military cooperation after a recent wave of violence in the Libyan capital, which threatened to dethrone him from power.
The Security Council on Friday approved former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.
The Libyan authorities on Wednesday announced the recovery of 15 unidentified bodies from two mass graves in the city of Sirte, some 450 km east of the capital Tripoli.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has facilitated the evacuations of more than 100 refugees, including 38 children, on a flight out of Libya to Rwanda, announced the U.N. agency on Thursday.
U.S. Assistant Secretary Barbara Leaf and U.S. Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland held talks in Tunis on Wednesday to discuss “prospects for boosting the U.S. diplomatic presence in Libya to promote stability, security cooperation, economic growth, and sustainable development”.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) helped helped 41 refugees leave Libya on flights to be resettled in Norway this week, the agency revealed on Wednesday.
Libya’s outgoing prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh landed in the Maltese capital Valetta today and was welcomed by the country’s Foreign Minister Ian Borg upon arrival, announced the Libyan government.
On the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed its solidarity with the “countless” victims of enforced disappearances and missing persons in Libya and called on relevant authorities to address enforced disappearances as part of a rights-based national reconciliation process.