The Interior Ministry and the Libyan National Army (LNA) launched on Wednesday a security campaign against human traffickers and drug dealers in Amsaad east of Tobruk. This comes within the framework of stability and law enforcement within the border area with Egypt. A joint force from the armed and interior forces headed to Amsaad border area to impose security and stability following the recent events. Several media sources reported that a 13-year-old child was killed in Amsaad as a result of clashes between border guards and smugglers. The Tokra Security Directorate also announced the preparation of 20 security patrols staffed by 80 police officers from among the elites within the public force in the Tokra Security Directorate, to go quickly to provide support to the Tobruk and Amsaad Security Directorates.

The commander of the Libyan western military region, Major General Osama Al-Juwaili, commented on the drone strikes on sites that the Government of National Unity said belonged to human traffickers and fuel smugglers. Al-Juwaili said in press statements that “the use of drones may complicate the political situation, because all parties will seek to possess weapons and there will be an arms race, and Libya does not need more weapons and chaos.”Al-Juwaili considered that the pretext of fighting crime using drones is a settling of political scores, using the state’s power and capabilities.

The Undersecretary of the Libyan Interior Ministry, Faraj Qaim, and the Chief of Staff of the Border Guard, Major General Moftah Shaqlouf, held an extensive meeting with the security leaders in Amsaad, in the awake of the security events that took place in the Libyan-Egyptian border area in Amsaad on Tuesday night between the border guards and smugglers. A joint force from the armed and interior forces headed to Amsaad border area to impose security and stability following the recent events. Several media sources reported that a 13-year-old child was killed in Amsaad as a result of clashes between border guards and smugglers. The General Administration of Central Support announced the arrival of a force from the administration to the border town of Amsaad to carry out the tasks assigned to it in terms of maintaining security, stability and law enforcement in the town. The Tokra Security Directorate also announced the preparation of 20 security patrols staffed by 80 police officers from among the elites within the public force in the Tokra Security Directorate, to go quickly to provide support to the Tobruk and Amsaad Security Directorates.

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TRIPOLI: Libya´s Tripoli-based government vowed on Tuesday to keep fighting smuggling networks and people traffickers after a series of drone strikes sparked claims of political score-settling. “The security operation will continue until the achievement of its objectives,” the Tripoli government said in a statement. “Seven migrant smuggling boats, six drug trafficking depots... and nine tanker trucks used for fuel smuggling” had been destroyed, it said, adding that the operation would now enter a “new phase”. Armed groups have exploited the turmoil to fund their activities through fuel smuggling and the illegal trafficking of migrants. On Monday, the eastern-based parliament denounced the Tripoli government´s operation as the “settlement of political scores rather than a fight against traffickers”.

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MISRATA, LibyaA Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in the deadly Islamic State (ISIS) attacks that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. Islamic State’s Libyan branch was one of the extremist group’s bloodiest outside its original territory in Iraq and Syria, taking advantage of the chaos and warfare that followed a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. “My son is missing and my relative, my brother-in-law, was murdered in Sirte Square,” he said. Speaking in court on Monday, Fawzia Arhuma said she welcomed the death sentences after her son was killed by the group at a power station near Sirte. “Today my son raised my head.

MISRATA: A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly campaign for the militant Islamic State group that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. IS’s Libyan branch was one of the militant group’s strongest outside its original territory in Iraq and Syria, taking advantage of the chaos and warfare that followed a 2011 Nato-backed uprising. In 2015 it launched an attack on the luxury Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing nine people, before abducting and beheading dozens of Egyptian Christians whose deaths it featured in grisly propaganda films. After gaining territory in Benghazi, Derna and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya, the group seized the central coastal city of Sirte, holding it until late 2016 as it enforced a harsh regime of public morality backed up by brutal punishments. Mustafa Salem Trabulsi, head of an organisation for families of people killed or disappeared by the group said he had hoped that all the suspects would face the death penalty but he accepted the outcome.

Today, Tuesday, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the storming of its embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, whose buildings were looted and vandalized. The ministry’s statement stated that it “condemns the storming of the Libyan embassy building in Khartoum and the looting of its contents,” whose staff had been evacuated due to the violence. The Libyan ministry expressed its “deep regret and resentment of such actions” and said that it “calls on the warring parties in Sudan to renounce violence and to protect diplomatic missions and their headquarters, in accordance with the Vienna Convention, which stipulates the need to provide protection for embassies and diplomatic missions.”In its statement, Libya indicated its “extreme concern for the stability of Sudan and its people,” but renewed its condemnation of the repeated attacks on the headquarters of some diplomatic missions in the Sudanese capital. Last Thursday, the Libyan ministry condemned the attack on the office of the Libyan military attache in Khartoum, calling for “the pursuit of those proven to be involved in this criminal act.”

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Libya’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned an attack on its embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, whose buildings were ransacked and looted. Tripoli “denounced the assault and looting” of the Libyan embassy building in Khartoum, whose staff had been evacuated due to the violence, according to a ministry statement, expressing its “deep regret and displeasure” at such acts, the Libyan ministry “calls on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to reject violence [….] and to protect diplomatic representations”, in the spirit of the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic relations between States, which “stipulates the obligation to protect embassies and diplomatic missions”. Last Thursday, the Libyan ministry deplored an attack on the offices of the Libyan military attaché in Khartoum, calling for those responsible for this “criminal act” to be “identified and prosecuted”. The last group of Libyan nationals was evacuated from Sudan on 13 May, according to the Libyan embassy in Khartoum.

After expressing its displeasure for such act, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Libya called on the parties in conflict in Sudan not to practice violence and to protect diplomatic representations, as established by the Vienna Convention. Five days ago, the foreign ministry of Libya condemned an attack in Khartoum against the office of the Libyan military attaché, an act it considered criminal. According to the digital portal Africa News, other countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, also condemned the assaults against diplomatic headquarters in Sudan. Both Libya and other states reiterated several times their call to put an end to the conflict in Sudan, which broke out last April 15 with clashes between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. ef/afl/ro/obf

(@ChaudhryMAli88)Libya's rival administrations in the east and west have reached a tentative agreement to elect the North African nation's next president next January, Libyan media reported TuesdayTUNIS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 30th May, 2023) Libya's rival administrations in the east and west have reached a tentative agreement to elect the North African nation's next president next January, Libyan media reported Tuesday. Libyans were due to elect a president in December 2021 but the vote never took place. The rival administrations have finally agreed on a legal framework for the presidential and parliamentary elections following weeks of talks in the Moroccan port of Bouznika, Al-Unwan news website reported, citing a source familiar with the decision. Parliamentary elections are expected to be held in December this year, followed by presidential elections in January 2024. The rivals have agreed on eligibility requirements for candidates, one of the most contentious issues on the table.

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 726 migrants, including women and children, were rescued and returned to Libya during the past week. “In the period of 21-27 May 2023, 726 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM said in a statement. So far this year, a total of 5,784 illegal immigrants have been rescued and returned to Libya, the organization said, adding 643 illegal immigrants died and 332 others went missing off the Libyan coast on the central Mediterranean route. The Libyan Interior Ministry said on Monday that it arrested 139 illegal immigrants after they were kidnapped by a criminal trafficking group in a farm located some 350 km east of the capital Tripoli.