Missed Opportunity to Tackle EU Responsibility in Migrant Rights Violations The contrast between the resolution on Libya adopted this week at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s final report detailing violations and abuses in Libya is staggering. On the one hand, UN experts documented in the report a “wide array […]
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The final report of the Fact-Finding Mission is a harrowing read. The Mission found that crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations continue unabated, including arbitrary detention, rape and other forms of torture, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance. According to the Mission, “there were reasonable grounds to believe crimes […]
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA yesterday, received 151 Nigerians who were repatriated from Benhagi, Libya , at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Director General of the Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed, who gave a breakdown of the number of returnees disclosed that there were 71 adult females , two […]
Joint Press Release BRUSSELS – The AU-EU-UN Tripartite Taskforce on the Situation of Migrants and Refugees in Libya has called on the international community and Libyan authorities to work together to improve the plight of migrants and refugees in Libya. At a meeting in Brussels yesterday, the Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development […]
The IAEA had said the missing uranium “may present a radiological risk.” The self-declared Eastern Libyan Army said it was recovered near the Chadian border. Just a few hours after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sounded the alarm about some 2.5 metric tons of uranium unaccounted for in Libya, the country’s eastern rebel military […]
TRIPOLI [SMN] – The minister of information of the Federal government of Somalia Da’ud Aweys paid a visit to Libya, for the highest official to arrive in the north African country. The minister met with the deputy prime minister of Libya Hussein Atiya Abdulhafid Al Qatrani and discussed ways to strengthen the bilateral relations between […]
The Director of Migration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Musa Camara, said more than 100 Gambian migrants were intercepted at sea and are now placed under detention in Tripoli. Camara made this and other statements on Friday 16th December 2022, during the Commemoration of International Migrants’ Day (IMD). “Four weeks ago, I visited over […]
Brussels — Aerial Surveillance Is Enabling Interceptions, Return of Migrants to Harm The use by the EU’s border agency, Frontex, of aerial surveillance to enable the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept migrant boats, knowing that migrants and asylum seekers will face systematic and widespread abuse when forcibly returned to Libya, makes Frontex complicit in the […]
US police have arrested a Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane 34 years ago. Abu Agila Masud was charged two years ago for his involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that left 270 people dead. The blast on board the Boeing 747 is […]
Tunis/Tunisia — A joint working strategy was adopted by the Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX) and the Libyan Export Development Centre for the 2023 year, in a bid to develop intra-trade relations and trade between Libya and Tunisia, said CEPEX. This strategy was outlined in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked on Friday between the two […]
The clock is ticking for the UN Special Representative to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, who must outline his plans before his window of opportunity snaps shut. Abdoulaye Bathily was appointed UN Special Representative to Libya in September, the eighth UN representative to attempt to negotiate a way out of Libya’s governance crisis since 2011. He faces […]
Efforts continue to get political leaders in Libya to overcome their differences so that long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections can finally take place, the Security Council heard on Tuesday. UN Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily briefed ambassadors on the ongoing impasse and other obstacles to the vote, which was postponed last December. Libya has been divided […]
This is the first time in two years that Nigeria will have a representative in the group stage of CAF inter-club competitions. Only one Nigerian football club, Rivers United, remain in the hunt for a continental title. The Stanley Eguma-led side progressed to the CAF Confederation Cup group stage with a 6-1 aggregate victory over […]
Addressing the Security Council from Libyan soil for the first time ever, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor acknowledged that while challenges abound, justice for the Libyan people is not “Mission Impossible”. “If we are willing to forge new partnerships… look at new ways of working together… [and] coalesce around human values… we can do […]
A report released by the World Organisation Against Torture says that extrajudicial murder and torture have become widespread in Libya, with nearly 600 people losing their lives in the past year to law enforcement agents or militia members. According to the report published by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Libyan law enforcement agents and […]
Libyan President Muhammad Yunus Al-Manfi told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that as it moves towards building a State of institutions and establishing principles of democracy, his country has through a decade of “pain and hope”. He upheld his commitment to the Libyan Political Agreement, and as “the supreme political […]
Tanzanian Premier League champions Young Africans (Yanga) and their Libyan counterparts Al Ahli Tripoli produced the biggest win margins as the first preliminary round of the 2022-23 TotalEnergeis CAF Champions League wrapped this weekend. In Dar es Salaam, Yanga produced a five-star performance, thrashing South Sudan’s debutants Zalan Rumbek 5-0. Congolese import Fiston Kalala Mayele […]
The Libyan Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Khamis Barak, has advised African journalists to give more attention of their reportage on Libyan crisis rather than leaving it in the hands of foreign media. This according to him would help reduce the negative reports filed by some foreign press and aid in finding solutions to the crisis. […]