Libya

Direct talks between two opposing Libyan delegations began on Monday 19 October in Geneva beneath the auspices of the United Nations. Ten members of the Navy and Safety Fee, representing the Authorities of Nationwide Unity (Tripoli) and the Libyan Nationwide Military (Benghazi), should proceed negotiations till October 24 to be able to obtain an enduring ceasefire in Libya.…

In tonight's version: Lagos is paralyzed by ongoing protests towards police brutality. Protesters are marching in direction of the airport as they demand extra modifications to cope with the notorious abuses that safety cops typically go to civilians. And not less than three folks have been killed in tensions earlier than Ivory Coast earlier than the election. Regional bloc ECOWAS calls on each the…

The Nationwide Fee on Human Rights in Libya (NHCR) in a press release condemned the arbitrary detention of considered one of its administrators since 1 October. Walid Elhouderi is accountable for liaison and worldwide coordination within the Fee. He was taken by forces underneath the command of the Nationwide Unity Authorities led by Fayez al-Sarraj in Tripoli. His arbitrary detention highlights a…

The Libyan government in Tripoli announced on Friday, October 16, the arrest of a Coast Guard official suspected of human trafficking, including migrants to Europe. Captain Abdelrahman Milad - known as "Al-Bidja" - was a senior official of the Coast Guard in Zawiya, about fifty kilometers west of Tripoli. His name is on a list…

Following the dissemination of the declassified portion of emails from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a wide-ranging controversy invaded the affected African countries, including Libya. The contents of the emails deleted by Hillary Clinton in 2016 relate to the origins of the 2011 revolution at the time of the Arab Spring, visibly sponsored by international powers, led by Washington. Ahmad Kadhaf al-Dam, who is leading the fight for the Libyan front, has indicated that he will attack Mrs Clinton for American…

It is a new look at the underside of American foreign policy. In recent days, Mike Pompeo, the head of US diplomacy, has finally promised to declassify emails sent at the time by Hillary Clinton, who was sitting between 2009 and 2013, under pressure from President Donald Trump under President Donald Trump during President Donald Trump. The content of some of these emails is already known: it allows us to better understand the position of the United States at the time of the Arab Spring, especially towards the Muslim…

Photojournalist of Mexican descent, Narciso Contreras reveals at Bayeux Tapestry (Calvados) till November 5 as a part of the Battle Correspondent Award. Primarily based on one in all his images, we gave him the ground so he may specify the context of his work in Libya. Narciso Contreras has lined a number of conflicts and their humanitarian penalties, significantly…

Marshal Khalifa Haftar's private plane landed in Istanbul twice in July last year. The Falcon 900 also landed during the same period in Abu Dhabi and then at the private Emirati airport Al Batine, reserved for business people. This private jet attracts the attention of "flight tracking" enthusiasts who monitor flights in real time and track their movements. Usually this plane is used by Marshal Khalifa Haftar, but more often and more it is used by his relatives for human trafficking and money laundering. This episode in…

A French couple were arrested in early October in the Limoges with 20,000 euros in moldy banknotes in their possession. Banknotes coming from shares plundered at Benghazi's central bank in Libya in late 2017. At that time, the city center, where the establishment is located, was taken from the Islamists by the forces of Khalifa Haftar. And witnesses accuse the son of the strong man from the eastern part of the country of having seized this liquidity flowing from Europe. By the end of 2017, the center of Benghazi was still…

After further discussions to try to end the Libyan conflict, the participants, parliamentary representatives from the two rival camps in Libya, announced that they had reached an agreement on reunification of the institutions. For the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is following the situation in Libya very closely, it is necessary to organize elections.…