Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has warned against “spoilers” who attempt to obstruct the Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections on December 24.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), has formed a committee to receive requests to grant Libyan citizenship to the children of Libyan women married to non-Libyans, the children of naturalized citizens and those who could not prove their Libyan origins.
Forty six members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) declared their adherence to the December elections and demanded the UN envoy, Jan Kubis, to hold an emergency session of the Forum.
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Libyan University Faculty Members Syndicate has called on all its members to engage in an open strike starting next Sunday, due “the government’s disrespect for the academic elites and ignoring their demands.”
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Mohamed al-Menfi, chairman of the Presidential Council, said on Saturday he would urge candidates who are planning to run for the general elections not to take part unless there was consensus on the vote’s legal framework.
An Airbus A400 cargo plane of the British Air Force left Misurata Air College Airport on Saturday night shortly after landing. This comes after 4 Turkish military cargo planes landed in the same airport during the past 72 hours.
Mohamed al-Menfi, the Head of the Presidential Council, chaired a meeting for Libya’s neighboring countries yesterday on the sidelines of the 76th U.N. General Assembly in New York, according to a statement by the council.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published its report issued on September 24, 2021, on Libya, in which it stated that a total of 24,420 migrants and refugees were intercepted and brought back to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard.
Mohamed al-Menfi, chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, held a meeting in New York yesterday with Charles Michel, president of the European Council, to discuss the European Union’s support for the Libyan elections on December, according to a statement by the Libyan council.