Security forces in the eastern city of Benghazi have launched a widespread campaign to confiscate unlicensed weapons, according to a statement by Libya’s Internal Security Agency on Sunday.
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Libya’s House of Representatives is scheduled to convene a session in Benghazi today as per an announcement last week by House Speaker Aguila Saleh.
The African Union is organising a national reconciliation conference for Libya, AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat told AFP on Sunday, the latest bid to restore stability to the conflict-wracked nation.
Libya is reported among the worst countries in Africa in 2022 in terms of governance, and ranked at 45 the 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, which examined the status of governance across 54 countries in the continent over the past ten years.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, informed Member of the Libyan Presidential Council (LPC), Abdullah al-Lafi, of his aspiration for the Council to play its role in a comprehensive political process based on national ownership and leading to presidential and parliamentary elections.
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, sent on Sunday a medical aid convoy to the eastern city of Al-Marj after a mild earthquake hit the city several times last week.
The Deputy Chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, Abdullah Al-Lafi, held a meeting today with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed on the sidelines of the African Union summit.
More than 1,300 irregular migrants have reached Italy’s Lampedusa island over the past two days, local media reported on Saturday.
Italian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a Syrian citizen accused of attempting to ship to Libya and Saudi Arabia 14 tons of Captagon and three tons of hashish, which were seized in 2020 in the port of Salerno.
Libyan leaders and foreign parties, especially Egypt and Turkey, must understand that the solution of the Libyan crisis is in their hands, said the former United Nations envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams.