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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
New York (dpa) – An estimated 1.2 million Libyan children were to return to school for the first time since the popular unrest against the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Friday. UNICEF said schools were to reopen on Saturday as Libya’s education ministry has distributed 10 million of the [...]
The capture and killing of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, on-going demonstrations for an end to the oppressive reigns of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and new elections in Tunisia show that one thing has not changed in the Arab Spring – change itself. Even in Saudi Arabia, where requests for reform have not [...]
CAIRO: Libya Women’s Peace Platform, a women’s rights group in Libya, has called for increased representation in Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) as the nation rebuilds its government after the fall of the former Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s regime earlier this year. The women’s group cited the revolutionary achievements of Libyan women during Libya’s uprisings, and [...]
The new authorities in Libya must stamp out arbitrary detention and widespread abuse of detainees, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing paper. In Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya the organization reveals a pattern of beatings and ill-treatment of captured al-Gaddafi soldiers, suspected loyalists and alleged mercenaries in western Libya. In some cases [...]
CAIRO: The Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn is currently travelling in Libya, visiting areas hit by the rebellion that ousted former Libyan Muammar Qaddafi. He is reportedly visiting countries of the Arab Spring in order to assess their humanitarian needs. “This is my first visit to inspirational Libya. I am inspired by the Arab Spring, and [...]
The head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday visited war-ravaged Misrata, reporting widespread destruction in the city, paying his respects to those who lost their lives during the protracted fighting earlier this year and hailing the spirit of the people. “I came to present my deepest respect to the people [...]
A council of over 35 Libyan women will convene at the Kempinski Nile Hotel in Cairo from October 7-9 to set strategies for promoting women’s rights and female political participation in post-Gaddafi Libya. Organized by the regional Arab women’s NGO Karama, this is the first such meeting of the Libya Peace Platform, which brings together [...]
All parties to Libya’s armed conflict must act to spare civilians and ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte, Amnesty International said today amid reports that the humanitarian situation in the coastal city is rapidly worsening. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to visit Sirte on Saturday, [...]
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