CAIRO: The overseas unit of Algerian state energy firm “Sonatrach” has said on Tuesday that it will resume its upstream operations in Libya next week, after a year of halting, an official officer revealed in Algeria’s capital. Sonatrach, which has exploration rights in the Ghadames basin, near the border between Libya and Algeria, has pulled [...]
CAIRO: Muammar Qadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, is set to be tried on murder and rape charges in Libya, and not by the International Criminal Court. Last week, the ICC, located in The Hague – Netherlands demanded Libya to give up the dictator’s son so that he could be tried for crimes against humanity. “He will [...]
NEW DELHI: A High Court in the Indian state of Karnataka has called the top police official “worse than Saddam Hussain and Moammar Gadaffi” for excesses he committed against tribal communities in the 1990s while on the hunt to nab a guerilla gangster and sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. The court also struck down his appointment as [...]
Tripoli (dpa) – Two days of tribal clashes in southern Libya have left 37 people dead, a news report said. Around 120 were injured when fighting broke out between members of the African Tabu tribe and two Arab tribes, news broadcaster Al Jazeera reported late Tuesday. The violence was triggered Monday when a car was [...]
Tripoli (dpa) – Relative calm has been restored in southern Libya after clashes erupted between two tribes, killing around 15 people, state-run media reported on Tuesday. Abdel Maguid Saif al-Nasr, member of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), told the Libyan News Agency that government troops were able to restore calm in the city of [...]
Brussels (dpa) – Libya has been “abandoned” by the international community and risks being taken over by Islamist extremists, the man who fronted the opposition to Muammar Gaddafi during the NATO campaign warned Saturday. Mahmoud Jibril – who, as a former chair of the National Transitional Council and head of its international affairs has been [...]
CAIRO: According to Amnesty International, NATO has so far failed to investigate the killing of scores of civilians in Libya in airstrikes carried out by its forces. Amnesty International released a paper on the effects of the sorties. The forgotten victims of NATO Strikes says that scores of Libyan civilians who were not involved in [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Two British journalists working for Iran’s English-language news network Press TV has been freed after being held since last month by a militia in Libya, the BBC reported Sunday, citing the British Foreign Office. Reporter Nicholas Davies-Jones and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson had entered Libya illegally and were originally accused of spying. They [...]
PARIS (dpa) – Interpol on Sunday issued its highest-level warrant for the arrest of Moamer Gaddafi’s former spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, at Libya’s request. The Red Notice, described by Interpol as “the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today,” comes after the 62-year-old was arrested in Mauritania on Friday for fraud offences. [...]
Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi must be sent to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said following reports of his arrest in Mauritania. He is wanted by the ICC in relation to its investigation into the situation in Libya. “Today’s news of al-Senussi’s apprehension is an important [...]
Lampedusa, Italy (dpa) – Five immigrants from North Africa were found dead on a boat south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, port authorities said on Saturday. Coast guards were dispatched on a rescue mission after receiving an emergency call from the boat, which was carrying dozens of illegal immigrants. Some 52 immigrants, including five [...]
Nouakchott (dpa) – Mauritanian authorities have arrested Abdullah al-Senussi, the chief of the intelligence service in the ousted regime of Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, they announced Saturday. Al-Senussi was arrested at the Nouakchott airport upon his arrival aboard a flight from Morocco, Mauritanian security authorities said in a statement. They added that the former [...]
Tripoli (dpa) – One person was killed and eight injured when gunmen attacked a rally of pro-federalists in the Libyan city of Benghazi, Libyan media reported Saturday, citing medical sources. Unknown people fired on a crowd gathering in Freedom Square in Benghazi late Friday to show support for the creation of a semi-autonomous region in [...]
CAIRO (dpa): A decision by tribal leaders in oil-producing eastern Libya to declare the region as semi-autonomous is “final and irreversible”, a leader in the region said on Thursday. “We do not accept any call for dialogue aimed at reversing our declaration of Barqa a federal region,” Ahmed al-Senussi, said, using the Arabic name for [...]
CAIRO: Libya is to re-open its stock exchange on March 15, more than one year after the country’s uprising began against former leader Muammar Gaddafi, the state-run news agency reported Monday. It comes as the country attempts to reboot its stalled economy since the ousting of Gaddafi last fall after months of bloody conflict left [...]
Geneva (dpa) – Both sides in last year’s civil war in Libya committed serious crimes, while the military operation conducted by NATO forces showed determination in minimizing civilian casualties, the UN commission investigating the conflict said Friday. “Acts of murder, enforced disappearance, and torture were perpetrated within the context of a widespread or systematic attack [...]
CAIRO: Two British journalists and their Libyan colleagues held by a Libyan militia must be set free immediately or transferred into government custody, Amnesty International has said in an official press release. Amnesty International said the detention is another example of armed militias operating independently and with impunity. Reportedly, Nicholas Davies-Jones, Gareth Montgomery-Johnson and their [...]
Valletta, Malta (dpa) – Two Libyan fighter jets flown to Malta by pilots who defied Muammar Gaddafi’s instructions to fire on protesting civilians were returned to Tripoli on Wednesday. The Mirage jets were symbolically flown back to Libya by the same two pilots who landed them in Malta unannounced exactly one year ago. Their decision [...]
Cairo (dpa) – At least four people were killed Wednesday in renewed clashes between two rival ethnic groups in a remote Libyan town, according to a military official. Ten were injured in the fighting that shattered a shaky truce between the Arab Zwai and the African Tebu groups in the south-eastern town of Kufra, Libyan [...]
Cairo (dpa) – A leading rights group said Tuesday that Libyan authorities and gunmen in the city of Misurata were preventing people they accuse of backing former leader Moamer Gaddafi from returning to neighboring villages they fled during last year’s civil war. “Tomina and Kararim are ghost towns because Misurata officials are blocking thousands of [...]
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