Egypt led by football star Mohamed Salah beat Libya with a score from Omar Marmoush on Friday night, making the Pharaohs the new leader of Group F with 7 points and Libya falls to second place.
Libyan guards shot dead six African migrants in a detention centre in Tripoli on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, denouncing “terrible” living conditions in the overcrowded place.
Libya’s House of Representatives will discuss on Monday, October 11, the adjustments requested by the High National Election Commission regarding the elections legislations, HNEC chairman Imad al-Sayeh told the press today.
Imad al-Sayeh, chairman of the High National Election Commission, held talks yesterday in Tripoli with Marc-André Franche, a representative for the U.N. Development Program in Libya, about preparations for the general elections scheduled for December 24.
The Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAIP) has announced the recovery of 16 million US dollars frozen at Deutsche Bank in Germany, Italian news agency Nova reports.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio held a meeting yesterday in Rome with his Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra to discuss the political transition process in Libya, according to the Italian foreign ministry.
A third batch of anti-COVID-19 vaccines arrived from Italy to Libya this afternoon, bringing the number of doses donated by Italy to the North African country to 501,600, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
France believes that it is “in everyone’s interest that Libyans respect their commitment to hold elections by the end of the year,” an Elysée source told Italian newspaper La Repubblica, adding that the European country made a demand to Turkey to “exert all its influence to reach the goal of the vote”.
Due to a crackdown operation in Tripoli last week, numbers of migrants held in Libyan detention centers have tripled, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Wednesday in a press statement.