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Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh held talks on Wednesday with Presidential Council Chairman Mohamed al-Menfi about the latest dispute surrounding a number of Cyrenaica-based government officials who recently disavowed Dbeibeh.

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Security forces in Tripoli used “unnecessary and disproportionate” force to detain migrants, shooting dead some of those trying to escape, the UN human rights office has said as it demanded an inquiry into the violence.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is paying an official visit to Libya, the first of its kind since September 2011, during which he is likely to meet in Tripoli with the Head of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh.
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Member of the Libyan Parliament Ziad Daghim commented on the statement of Cyrenaica officials that denounced Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s policies, stressing that there had been a series of steps since a while towards escalation and the loss of the gains that had been achieved, especially after the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) meeting and its success in forming a single authority in the country.
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Amnesty International said that Libyan security forces and militias in Tripoli have used unlawful lethal force and other violence in an unprecedented roundup of over 5,000 men, women and children from Sub-Saharan Africa and are holding them in horrid conditions where torture and sexual abuse are rampant.
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Ghat Representative in the Libyan Parliament, Nasr Asrir, denounced the cancellation of the visit of the Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, after the refusal of receiving the security and logistical delegation that preceded Dbeibeh’s visit “under the pretext of the lack of prior coordination,” which Asrir described as “false excuses for preventing and thwarting the visit.”
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Libyan Economy Minister, Mohamed al-Huwaij, discussed with the French Ambassador to Libya, Beatrice du Helen, strengthening cooperation between the two countries and raising the level of trade exchange, during a meeting at the Ministry’s headquarters in Tripoli.
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