A Syria-style proxy war is being fought in Libya. Although on a smaller scale and with reduced intensity, just a few thousand men on the ground, the amount of foreign aid involved is significant, in defiance of the United Nation’s...
Fayez Al Sarraj is the chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, a position by virtue of which he also holds the office of Prime Minister and therefore leader of the provisional government that was formed in Tripoli in March...
ECOWAS leaders have pledged $1 billion to combat the escalating threat of Islamist militancy in West Africa. Mahamadou Issoufou, ECOWAS chairperson and the President of Niger, accused the international community of creating Libya’s current political crisis, as Islamic terrorist groups...
Rwanda, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNCHR) and the African Union have agreed to evacuate refugees and asylum seekers in Libya. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed last week, in the capital city, Addis Ababa, to set up a transit...
Human rights are not being upheld for migrants and refugees in Libya, with migrants alleging that they are tortured and kept in unsanitary conditions. On July 3, airstrikes on the well-known Tajoura Detention Centre in the country’s capital city, Tripoli,...
Last month, amid shocking news that scores of refugees and migrants had been killed in an airstrike at a Libyan detention centre, officials in the turbulent North African country quickly promised to close down those facilities for good. But, almost...
A military strike that killed dozens of people at a detention centre in Libya has focused attention on the treatment of refugees and migrants in the turbulent country, and amplified calls to shutter the lockups they are housed in once...
In Libya, the fighters are not given any respite. The soldiers of Fayez al Sarraj and those of Khalifa Haftar continue to battle even through the night. Fausto Biloslavo reports from Tripoli
Tripoli – The red flames illuminate a night propped up by stars. A government fighter glued to a heavy machine gun on the back of an off road vehicle shoots short intermittent bursts towards the positions of General Khalifa Haftar....
A common thread, or to be more precise a white metal common thread, links the three conflicts devastating North Africa and the Middle East: the one in Iraq and Syria, the one in Yemen and the one in Libya. And...
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