A Libyan political party, led by former president of parliament Nouri Abusahmain, proposed holding parliamentary elections before the presidential elections.
Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, underscored the importance of transparency with voters in the upcoming Libyan elections during a conversation on Thursday with Wafia Saif al-Nasr, a member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF).
More than 32,000 people were intercepted and returned to Libya last year, revealed the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in a report released on Friday.
Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has not returned to Libya to resume her duties for nearly a month due to a dispute between her and Ibrahim Dbeibeh, an advisor and cousin to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a Libyan press reports.
A team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has treated 68 people who were injured during a mass arrest two days ago in Libya, when hundreds of migrants asking for protection were taken to a detention center in Ain Zara, MSF operations manager Ellen van der Velden said.
Several members of Libya’s House of Representatives called on the Attorney-General to launch an investigation into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, met in Tunis today with Russian Chargé d’Affaires Jamshed Boltaev for talks on the Libyan elections, the U.S. Embassy in Libya said.