A European Union drone is helping Libyan forces intercept boats carrying migrants in the Mediterranean, who are then “hauled back to arbitrary detention and abuse”, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Libya’s Tripoli-based premier Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh announced on Tuesday that his government will send 15 wounded Libyans to Italy to receive treatment for injuries sustained from fuel tanker explosion in the southern town of Bent Bayya, which took place on Monday.
Dozens of wounded Libyans arrived in Egypt on Wednesday to receive medical treatment for injuries sustained from fuel tanker explosion in the southern town of Bent Bayya, which took place on Monday.
Today in Benghazi, Ali Faraj Al-Qatrani and Salem Al-Zadma, both are deputies of Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha, met with the Netherlands’ Ambassador to Libya, Dolf Hogewoning, to discuss “bilateral relations between the two countries,” as per statement from Bashagha’s government.
Protestors in Libya’s southern town of Bent Bayya closed entrance to the town’s municipal council on Tuesday.
Five people were arrested on a Greek island Tuesday and charged with trying to smuggle nearly a hundred migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week, using what appears to be a new direct sea route from crisis-afflicted Lebanon to Italy, Associated Press reported.
Libyans continue to struggle under crippling blackouts in one of the most oil-rich countries in Africa. During hot summer, the hours of power cuts increase in neighborhoods across Libya. Growl of private electricity generators turning on drowns out most other sounds as they pump out acrid smoke from their diesel engines.
At least 7 people died and more than 50 injured after a fuel truck exploded today in Bent Bayya, a town in southern Libya located between Sabha and Ubari, according to several reports from health officials.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that more than 1600 illegal migrants have been trafficked between 2020 and 2022, adding that most of them are from Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.
The Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has appealed to the country’s rivals to agree to hold elections “within a firm constitutional framework”.