A U.S. appeals court decided Tuesday that the 22-year sentence of Ahmed Abu Khatallah for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attack wasn’t enough.
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Osama Al-Juwaili, a military officer based in Tripoli, met on Wednesday with several armed groups loyal to outgoing prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a source told The Libya Update.
Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, stressed the need to focus appointing a new UN Special Envoy for Libya, which he deemed to be a “decisive step”.
A meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission, originally scheduled for today, was indefinitely postponed, Italian news agency Nova reports.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that 446 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya and sent back to the country from July 17 to 23.
International monitors of the Libyan ceasefire will hold a meeting the 5+5 Joint Military Committee and the Libyan monitors in Sirte in early August, the United Nations announced on Monday.
The status quo in Libya is not sustainable, and it carries risks for the stability of the country, said Nicolas de Rivière, France Ambassador to the U.N. on Monday.
“Libyan parties need to compromise and agree a pathway to achieve parliamentary and presidential elections,” British Ambassador to the U.N. Barbara Woodward told the Security Council in a Libya briefing on Monday.
The United Nations’ priority in Libya remains to facilitate a return to the electoral process, affirmed Assistant to Secretary-General for Africa Martha Pobee in a briefing before the Security Council on Monday.
“All actions that could lead to instability and violence should be avoided,” Italy’s Special Envoy to Libya, Nicola Orlando, told Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha during a”constructive call” on Monday evening.