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The United States has proposed dividing the Libyan presidential elections into two rounds, according to which, the first round of  presidential elections would take place on 24 December, along with parliamentary elections, and then a second and final round on 15 September 2022, according to The Africa Report.

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Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, discussed the latest developments in the country with the Libyan National Army’s representatives of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee during a meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma on Saturday, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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The Libyan House of Representatives will convene a regular session on Monday after Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh refused to comply with a parliamentary subpoena, the House spokesman Abdullah Blehaq announced on Saturday.

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Italy and Russia share the “urgent need” to continue supporting the internal Libyan negotiations, because joint cooperation between the two countries on Libya is “pivotal”, the Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters on Friday during a press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Rome.

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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), discussed with Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, the latest developments in the country during a Saturday meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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At least 130 migrants were rescued and brought back to Tripoli on Friday evening after their two boats capsized at sea, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on early Saturday morning.

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Member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), Amal Bugaigis, said she “hopes that the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) will expand and become a unified military and security council, moving the country towards peace.”
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Thirty one members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) called on the UN Special Envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, to hold an emergency session of the forum to address the “grave breaches” that impede the implementation of LPDF road map.
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Aqila Saleh, Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), said the Government of National Unity (GNU) can freeze its agreements with Turkey because the legislative authority has not approved them.
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The Government of National Unity (GNU) acts as a party that had won power, not as a government of national unity, said member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdussalam Nassiya.
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