The tide is turning in favour of the coalition in power in Tripoli. Its troops have won back control of several cities from the forces of Field Marshal Haftar, albeit with Turkish support but also with that of a population apparently hostile to the idea of a military dictatorship. The numerous regional and…
Read more from the source : Orient XXI
Tags : Libya, Haftar, France,
The combination of several worrying developments – an escalating armed conflict, the arrival of COVID-19 to a war-torn country with a collapsing healthcare system and the reduction of the humanitarian space available for organisations due to travel and security restrictions – is creating a crisis…
Read more from the source : Médecins Sans Frontières
Tags : Libya, coronavirus, covid 19,
Migrants currently on the Libya-Niger route have alerted the authorities of Niger that they are stranded in the desert and dying of thirst. They are calling for help from the authorities. Alarme Phone Sahara urgently asks the authorities of the Republic of Niger to take all available measures…
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Tags : Libya, Niger, Sahara, migration,
The GNA interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday that 26 Bangladeshi and four African migrants had been killed in the town of Mizda and that 11 injured survivors were taken to a hospital in Zintan, Reuters reported. “We have just learned of this tragedy and are following up to get…
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Tags : Libya, migrants, Bangladeshi,
Will the Libyan conflict lead to another faceoff between Turkey and Russia, similar to the one in Syria? It is a question that many in Turkey have been asking since the emergency security meeting that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened last week over the deployment of Russian…
Read more from the source : Al-Monitor
Tags : Libya, Syria, syrianization,
On 4 April, Libya’s capital Tripoli had completed a year since the beginning of the military campaign by Commander Khalifa Haftar against the internationally recognized Government of National Accord to seize economic institutions and political decision-making centres. The operation resulted…
Read more from the source : Arab reform initiative
Tags : Libya, covid 19, coronavirus,
Over the last 24-hours, Libya’s UN-backed government, known as the GNA, has carried out a series of air-strikes against forces loyal to Haftar, whose troops are reeling from government attacks and are in retreat. Haftar and his self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) have suffered a series of…
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Tags : Libya, GNA, LNA,
War-torn and deeply polarised since the 2011 overthrow of Gaddafi’s 42-yearlong dictatorship, Libya’s civil society organisations have taken on the difficult task of supporting the transition of their nation towards a unified and resilient society. As the country’s opposing national…
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Tags : Libya, pandemic,
The death of Muammar Gaddafi on October 20th, 2011 put an end to 40 years of dictatorship in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. His fall left the stage open for great political and military instability, intensified by complex alliance games between the parties involved. The situation therefore seems…
Read more from the source : Europe in the world
Tags : Libya, Europe, instability,
In February 2020, the Libya-Italy Memorandum of Understanding on Migration (LIMUM) was extended for another three years. LIMUM provides Italian support to Libyan maritime authorities to stop vessels and return asylum-seekers to detention camps in Libya—a flagrant violation…
Read more from the source : Brookings
Tags : Libya, migrants,