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UN envoy urges Libyan rivals to end differences ‘in a week’

UN Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams on Sunday urged the country's rivals to establish a constitutional framework within one week for holding elections in the conflict-ridden nation, Anadolu reports. "This final round comes at a critical juncture for your country. After eleven long years of division, dysfunction, conflict, chaos and polarization, the Libyan people are exhausted," Williams said at the opening session of the third and final round of talks in […]

today13 June 2022

International News

Libya’s GNA recaptures strategic al-Watiya airbase

Libya's internationally-recognised government says it has captured the strategic al-Watiya airbase from fighters loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar. Military spokesman Mohamed Gnunu said in a Twitter post on Monday the forces of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) had taken over the entirety of the base near the Tunisian border. The announcement by the administration of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj came after a month-long counteroffensive that has […]

today19 May 2020

International News

Libyan coastguards recover bodies of 11 migrants: spokesman

Libyan coastguards recovered the bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya’s western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy on Sunday, a spokesman said. More than 80 migrants survived the incident off the city of Sabratha, about 70 km (44 miles) west of Tripoli, and coastguards brought them back to the nearby city of Zawiya, said naval coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem. The migrants were from various sub-Saharan African countries, […]

today23 April 2018

International News

Freed from Libyan jails, frustrated migrants pose challenge to Gambia

Jobless, restless and frustrated, 24-year-old Saikou Jammeh persuaded his father to sell the family home and give up his life savings to pay for the journey from Gambia to Europe. Jammeh saw no future for himself in Gambia, a tiny impoverished country on West Africa’s coast, so he joined an exodus of young men willing to sacrifice everything to leave. But after being robbed, beaten, and locked in a Libyan […]

today30 January 2018

International News

At least 20 dead as clashes shut airport in Libyan capital

Fierce clashes broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday, killing at least 20 people, shutting the airport, and damaging planes during what the government said was a failed attempt to spring militants from a nearby prison. The attack triggered the heaviest fighting in Tripoli for months, undercutting claims by the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) to have largely stabilised the city. The violence also undermines GNA […]

today16 January 2018

International News

Factions fight for two Libyan oil terminals

An eastern Libyan group says it is carrying out air strikes against rival factions as part of its attempt to push them back from positions around the major oil terminals of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf. The Libyan National Army (LNA) is attempting to regain control of the ports after being forced to withdraw on Friday by an attack by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB). The BDB is composed partly […]

today6 March 2017

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