The Chief of Staff of forces loyal to the Government of National Unity, Mohamed Haddad, will travel to Benghazi on Wednesday, July 27, to meet his counterpart of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Abdelrazek Nadori, according to Italian news agency Nova.
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UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it is “concerned by the ongoing harassment, restrictions, and violence targeting lawyers, including the brutal 18 July beating of lawyer, Abdullah Ali Farahat in the Tripoli Court by Deterrence Apparatus for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism’ (DACOT) guards.”
U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland said Saturday’s clashes in Misrata demonstrate the dangerous prospect that the recent violence will escalate.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, said Sunday that the great popular movement in support of the Libyan government in the East, South and West gives us hope that “the brave national spirit will triumph over the gang of corruption that thought it could buy home with “haram” money.”
Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions.
Spokesman for the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Mohammed Hamouda, is expected in Rome today for a press conference dedicated to the stability of the Mediterranean at the Nassirya Hall of the Senate, according to Italian news agency Nova.
Chairman of the High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, was urged by U.N. Advisor, Stephanie Williams, to “forge a final agreement quickly” about constitution draft with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, premier of the Tripoli-based government, paid a visit on Saturday to several individuals who were wounded during the violent clashes that erupted the capital since last Thursday, according to a statement by the government.
U.N. Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, revealed she was in Istanbul on Thursday for talks about Libya with “senior representatives” from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the U.N. diplomat said via Twitter on Saturday.
16 people were killed and 52 wounded in violent clashes which erupted last Thursday between two armed groups in Tripoli, announced the Ministry of Health on Saturday.