Libya

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which supported Libya's East-based Putist General Khalifa Haftar during its offensive against the legitimate administration, has promised support for the new unity government in Tripoli formed after UN-sponsored peace talks. Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan received Libya's caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in the United Arab Emirates' capital late on Wednesday. He "renewed his support for the new executive in Libya and their quest…

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (FDPL) began a three-day meeting on Wednesday, April 7, in Tunis. According to Libyan media, this meeting is to discuss the legal framework for general elections expected in December. An issue that divides Libyans and risks preventing elections. Opinions differ on the constitutional platform that should be adopted.…

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis resumed the Greek embassy in Libya throughout a go to to the North African nation on Tuesday and met the previous Libyan envoy he expelled in response to the Tripoli authorities's maritime border settlement with Turkey in 2019. Greece had ordered the expulsion of Libya's present head of the Presidential Council, Mohammad Younes Menfi, who had served for nearly a 12 months as Libya's ambassador to Greece, in December 2019 following a maritime settlement between Tripoli and Ankara. He…

Following the trip of several Home and Foreign Ministers and the Head of the European Council last week to Tripoli, the Italian and Greek Prime Ministers paid an official visit to Libya on Tuesday 6 April. They discussed economic and security issues as well as their bilateral cooperation with the new Libyan leadership. This double visit is further proof of Europe's great interest in the political rise…

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has made his first trip abroad since taking office in February and arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of issues with the North African country's interim prime minister. Draghi held talks with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and followed in the footsteps of other European leaders who recently met with Libya's new caretaker government, which took power last month to unite the country, which has been divided by civil war for nearly a decade.…

Malta will resume its embassy in Libya and restart flights to the North African country, said Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela on Monday. Malta is the latest EU member to strengthen ties with Tripoli, as Libya seeks to end a decade of chaos following a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. "We will reopen our embassy and consulate in Libya in the next few days," Abela told a news conference in Tripoli, standing alongside Libyan caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. "Flight links will also be…

Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a strongman in eastern Libya, has been weakened since the summer of 2020 after failing to seize the capital Tripoli, trying to impose another on the Libyan political scene. After his appearance a few days ago, in military fatigue in the midst of his forces, it was in civilian clothes that he turned, on…

After terrorizing Libya's Tarhuna for several years during their rule over the city, the Kaniyat militia has still not been held accountable for its war crimes as authorities continue to locate mass graves. "They spared no child, no woman, no old man," said Mohamed Amer, mourning the murdered under the reign of terror by six brothers who ruled the Libyan city with bloodshed. "I am the father of the martyr Moaid, cold-blooded killed by the criminal gang Kaniyat," said Amer, a silver-haired father in his…

In Libya, the release, on Wednesday 31 March, was welcomed by more than a hundred prisoners held since the beginning of Marshal Khalifa Haftar's abortive offensive to take the capital in 2019, locally and by the UN. It was on the initiative of a local dialogue group that these prisoners of war were released on Wednesday, March 31. All dressed in white in traditional Libyan clothes. They were greeted by the "family" ululations. The ceremony, which took place in the town of Zawiya, 70 km from Tripoli, in western Libya, was…

Forces in western Libya on Wednesday released more than 100 detainees who had been captured during fighting under Putin general Khalifa Haftar, in a conciliatory gesture following the latest agreements, officials said. The fighters were liberated in the coastal city of Zawiya during a televised ceremony attended by senior officials of the newly appointed transitional government. The men fought for the 107th Brigade under the leadership of Haftar. Mohammad Younes Menfi, head of the presidential…