U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, spoke on the phone today with Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha following the latter’s trip to Turkey, the American embassy announced.
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The Libyan Presidential Council welcomed on Saturday the decision of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as his new special envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.
16 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 8 percent of the infection rate, according to a Friday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC).
Libyan armed factions fought in the western outskirts of Tripoli late on Friday and early Saturday as forces aligned with Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s government further consolidated their control over the capital.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday as the outgoing Libyan premier signals intent to boost military cooperation after a recent wave of violence in the Libyan capital, which threatened to dethrone him from power.
The Security Council on Friday approved former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy.
Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, signed with his Maltese counterpart, Robert Abela, two cooperation agreements between the two countries.
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba, met Thursday Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and Head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, Hakan Fidan.
Following recent armed clashes in Tripoli that resulted in civilian casualties and widespread damage to civilian facilities, UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) underlined “the importance of avoiding any actions or statements that undermine the fragile calm.”
The Libyan authorities on Wednesday announced the recovery of 15 unidentified bodies from two mass graves in the city of Sirte, some 450 km east of the capital Tripoli.