By Euronews with APThirty-eight human traffickers were jailed by a Libyan court on Monday over the deaths of migrants heading to Europe on a rickety boat. A court in eastern Libya has sentenced 38 human traffickers over the deaths of 11 Europe-bound migrants at sea, according to the office of Libya’s chief prosecutor said on Monday. Another 24 human traffickers, part of a network smuggling migrants, were jailed for a year, the statement added. Human traffickers have benefited from the instability in Libya, smuggling migrants across borders from six nations, including Egypt, Algeria and Sudan. In March, UN-backed human rights experts said there was evidence that crimes against humanity had been committed against Libyans and migrants in Libya, including women being forced into sexual slavery.

Five people were sentenced to life in prison in Libya for the deaths of 11 migrants. The defendants were part of a network smuggling people from Libya to Europe, it said. The statement did not say when the 11 died at sea or provide further details. AFP Mahmud Turkia/AFPLibya descended into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that toppled and killed long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Human traffickers have benefited from the instability in Libya since, including the smuggling of people across borders from six nations, including Egypt, Algeria and Sudan.

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The fate of hundreds of migrants pushed into the Tunisia-Libya border region drew concern from international humanitarian groups and calls for action. Speaking to The Associated Press from the border zone last week, he described some 600 sub-Saharan migrants caught in the area between the Mediterranean and the Tunisian-Libyan land border near Ben Guerdane. Under pressure from humanitarian agencies, Tunisian President Kais Saied Sunday ordered the Tunisian Red Crescent to bring aid to the migrants. He said 195 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa registered on a Red Crescent list to be transferred back to Tunisia, and then to their countries of origin. The president of the Tunisian Human Rights Observatory, Mustapha Abdelkebir, said a total of 450 migrants blocked in the border zone were being gradually transferred to various regions of Tunisia.

Air travel between Libya and Italy will resume in September after a nearly decade-long suspension following an EU ban, the head of the Tripoli-based UN-backed government said on Sunday 9 July 2023. Flights between the two countries were halted in 2014 after the European Union blacklisted Libyan airlines and banned them from flying over European airspace. Malta is the only other European country to have resumed flights with Libya. ALSO READ: Libya UN special representative expresses concern over vote dealLIBYAN DIVISION? Since then, the North African country has been divided, with one administration based in Tripoli and the other in the east where it is backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

TRIPOLI: A Libyan court has sentenced to prison 37 people convicted of human trafficking over migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, authorities said on Monday. The North African country is a key departure point for migrants, with many risking the perilous sea journey seeking a better life in Europe. The appeals court in Al-Bayda, some 800-km east of the capital Tripoli, pronounced the verdict against a “criminal gang” whose members organised for migrants to travel on a “dilapidated boat, resulting in the death of 11 of them”, according to statement from the prosecution. The prosecutor´s office, which did not specify the identities or nationalities of the convicted traffickers, said five of them were sentenced to life in jail and nine others to 15 years.

Emmanuel Addeh in AbujaLibya’s revenues from crude oil in the first half of the year fell to $6.95 billion (33.4 billion Libyan dinars)—down from 37.3 billion dinars in H1 2022, according to a statement from Libya’s central bank. Libya’s crude oil production in the first part of this year is higher than it was during the same period last year. In Q1 2023, Libya’s crude oil production averaged 1.157 million bpd, according to OPEC’s secondary sources, rising only slightly to average 1.169 million bpd by May of this year. This is an increase on 2022, when 1st quarter production averaged 1.063 million bpd, with May 2022 production averaging just .707 million bpd, oil price reported. But Brent crude oil prices are down nearly $30 per barrel from May 2022 to May 2023.

New York: The leader of a US think tank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Gal Luft, a citizen of the United States and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law. Gal Luft is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016. Credit: C-SpanProsecutors did not identify the former official, but said he was working as an adviser to the then president-elect Donald Trump at the time. Luft is accused of pushing the adviser to support policies favourable to China, including by drafting comments in the adviser’s name published in a Chinese newspaper. A Twitter account bearing Luft’s name, with more than 15,000 followers, said in a February 18 tweet that he had been arrested in Cyprus “on a politically motivated extradition request by the US.”

Given the economic mayhem that energy price-fuelled inflation has caused for Western governments since Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the last thing they want is another oil production shutdown in Libya that would push oil prices higher again. The last time he issued such a warning, Libyan oil production of over 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) collapsed, contributing to rising oil prices. Oil production also stopped at Abuatufol, Al-Intisar, Anakhla, and Nafura. Overall, during that wave of blockades and shutdowns, Libya was losing around 550,000 bpd of its oil production. It is apposite to remember as well at this point that Libya still has around 48 billion barrels of proved crude oil reserves – the largest in Africa.

Oil revenues have been a major point of contention between the two parties. Earlier this month, Khalifa Haftar (see picture), the leader of the Libyan Eastern government, called for equitable distribution of oil revenues. "The worsening economic situation requires practical measures to evenly distribute oil revenues. Oil revenues are Libya’s main source of income and have often been a subject of contention among different factions of the country. Among other things, this administration has been accused of squandering oil revenues.

The court in the city of Bayda also sentenced nine other defendants to 15 years in prison each, the office of General Prosecutor al-Sediq al-Sourr said in a statement. The defendants were part of a network smuggling migrants from Libya to Europe, it said. The court ruling was the latest in the conflict-wracked North African nation to target traffickers. Human traffickers have benefited from the instability in Libya, smuggling migrants across borders from six nations, including Egypt, Algeria and Sudan. For years, the United Nations and rights groups have decried the inhumane conditions faced by migrants trafficked and smuggled across the Mediterranean.

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Petros Karadjias/APCAIRO (AP) — A court in eastern Libya sentenced five people to life in prison after they were convicted of human trafficking over the deaths of 11 migrants who were on a rickety boat trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the office of Libya’s chief prosecutor said Monday. The court in the city of Bayda also sentenced nine other defendants to 15 years in prison each, the office of General Prosecutor al-Sediq al-Sourr said in a statement. Another 24 others were jailed for a year, the statement added.

Prime Minister Robert Abela insisted Tunisia remains a crucial partner in tackling the Mediterranean migrant crisis. The PM said Tunisia, a country which is also impacted by the migration crisis, remains a crucial partner in tackling the issue. Renewable energy cooperationPrime Minister Robert Abela stated renewable sources are the future of energy technology. Abela said Tunisia is a crucial partner in the development of such projects, which he said will benefit the people of both countries. The leaders also discussed ongoing talks between the EU and Tunisia on a comprehensive partnership package focused on strengthening economic and trade ties, an energy partnership, migration and people-to-people contactsPrime Minister Robert Abela was accompanied by Foreign Minister Ian Borg and Home Minister Byron Camilleri.

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