Tripoli rejects a European Union’s plan to establish migrant centers and it will not be attracted by financial inducements, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said. Rejection of Fayez al-Sarraj aborted the Italian proposal to organise reception and identification platforms for migrant processing in Africa as a means of resolve divisions among European governments over how to…
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Mogherini inaugurates EU premises in Tripoli
EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini visited Libya today to inaugurate the premises of the European Union Delegation to Libya and the EU Border Assistance Mission in Tripoli, and in view of the Foreign Affairs Council on Monday where the situation in Libya is on the agenda. .@FedericaMog visited Libya today to inaugurate the premises of…
EU expects ceasefire in Tripoli
“The fighting in Tripoli on recent days has broken a hard-wrought ceasefire that had been in place since March. The renewed violence puts at risk the promising start to a dialogue aimed at fostering reconciliation in Libya,” – says the statement of the European Action Service spokesperson. At least 52 Government of National Accord fighters…
Abedi’s brother arrested in Tripoli
The younger brother of the suicide bomber Salman Abedi who killed 22 people at a concert venue in Manchester has been arrested in Tripoli on suspicion of links with Islamic State, according to the spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force. The force, known as Rada, detained Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, on Tuesday…
South Libya clashes
The clashes and escalation of violence in the south of Libya endanger the political process and put Libyan citizens’ lives at risk. Libya’s unity government in Tripoli has called for “urgent intervention” by the international community to end military escalation in its south, warning of a possible “civil war”. For more than a week,…
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