Armed groups block MPs from leaving Tripoli, forcing parliament to cancel session in Benghazi
An armed group at Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport has forcibly prevented 30 members of parliament from leaving the capital, sources told The Libya Update on Monday. The lawmakers were planning to travel to Benghazi to attend a session of the House of Representatives. The House’s spokesman, Abdullah Blehaq, confirmed the news, telling press reporters that the travel blockade against the MPs caused the parliament to cancel today’s session.
Source:Libya Today
September 05, 2022 12:16 UTC
Editorial: Libya’s stalled transition to peace
The UN-recognised Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was given a warm welcome by Prime Minister Robert Abela when he visited Malta last week. Referring to the eruption of violence in Libya in the last few weeks, Abela said, “The last days in Libya have been difficult. The peace and stability in the past two years was something we were happy to see.”Abela promised his Libyan counterpart that Malta would “remain friends” with the people of Libya. Malta can do little to help Libya regain stability except to put pressure on the EU to give more importance to brokering a peace deal between the Libyan warring factions. Today Turkey supports Dbeibah and Libya while Russia and Egypt support the challenger Fathi Bashagha and his militias.
Source:Libya Today
September 05, 2022 07:24 UTC
US Welcomes Appointment of New UN Special Envoy for Libya: Blinken
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States welcomes the appointment of Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations Taher El Sonni said at the end of last month that his country was calling on Guterres to quickly select a new special representative for Libya . "We welcome the appointment by UN Secretary-General Guterres of Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. The United Nations has been facilitating peace efforts in Libya since the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which left the country split between rival factions. (ANI/Sputnik)(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 22:21 UTC
Libyan constitutional circuit court looks into appeals against HoR decisions
For the first time since being reactivated in last August, the constitutional circuit court started work on Sunday to look into the appeals against the 10th and 11th constitutional amendments as well as law No.6 of 2018 that is related to constitutional referendum. Local media reported the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mohammed Al-Hafi, as saying that the court had "reserved the appeal regarding the 10th and 11th constitutional amendments, and Law No.6 of 2018 regarding the referendum on the draft constitution for ruling next October." The of the Constitution Drafting Assembly, Etimad Al-Masallati, referred earlier that the constitutional circuit court of the Supreme Court would look into the appeals against the aforementioned constitutional amendments and law No.6 of 2018 regarding the referendum on the constitution, which divided Libya into 3 electoral districts instead of one as ordered in the law that established the Constitution Drafting Assembly. The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aqila Saleh, has addressed both the Head of the Supreme Judicial Council, and the advisors of the Supreme Court, telling them that he doesn't recognize Al-Hafi as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and calling on the Supreme Judicial Council to implement the decision to transfer the court’s headquarters to Al-Bayda, saying that any decision taken by the Supreme Court from its headquarters in Tripoli will be null and void.
Source:Libya Observer
September 04, 2022 22:02 UTC
Libra: Your daily horoscope - September 05
Think before you act and don't feel pressured into getting involved in something you don't feel comfortable with. You may find that you are wasting precious opportunities by thinking that they have to come packaged in a certain way. Don't let others pressure you into making a decision before you're ready. Love: You’re finding some things more irritating than normal, and you’re a little uneasy when it comes to making any sort of choice. If someone complicates your life, you face the situation, and you don't let it happen to you.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 16:11 UTC
Libya chairs 158th session of the Council of the Arab League
The 158th session of the Council of the Arab League, at the level of permanent delegates, convened today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League, headed by Libya. According to Libya’s delegation at the Arab Leagues, today’s session comes ahead of a meeting on Tuesday, which will be held at the level of foreign ministers. According to the council’s agenda, the Arab League’s permanent delegates will discuss developments in Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen as well as the Israeli-Palestnian conflict among other issues.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 13:25 UTC
EU top foreign diplomat welcomes new UN envoy to Libya
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, expressed on Saturday his “warm congratulations” to Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily who was recently named as U.N. envoy to Libya. “Warm congratulations to the new UN Special Representative for Libya HE Abdoulaye Bathily,” Borrell stated via Twitter. “The EU continues to fully support UN efforts to find a Libyan-led political solution to the prolonged crisis in the interest of all Libyans.”Warm congratulations to the new @UN Special Representative for #Libya HE Abdoulaye Bathily. — Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) September 3, 2022The Security Council on Friday approved former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month vacancy. The 75-year-old succeeds Ján Kubiš of Slovakia, who previously served as special envoy and head of U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 13:23 UTC
Libya records 11 new cases of COVID-19
The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) reported on Sunday that 11 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 9 percent of the infection rate. 64 people recovered in the same reporting period. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have reached more than 500,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,437 people in total. Over two million people received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while over one million were fully vaccinated with two doses.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 11:33 UTC
GNMTC prevents tanker Badr from being registered with Israeli maritime authorities
The Libyan state-owned General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) has announced that it was able, through its lawyer, to cancel the registration of the Libyan tanker 'Badr' with the maritime authorities in Israel. The company said in a statement on Friday 'It is still striving through judicial procedures to retrieve the detained tanker Badr'. The Haifa Maritime Court ruled officially canceling the registration of the tanker Badr at the Israeli maritime registration and rejected the Livia Maritime Company’s appeal against the rule canceling the registration, and charged Livia with the litigation cost involved in favour of GNMTC. The GNMTC pointed out that the ruling of the Haifa Maritime Court and the cancellation of the Israeli registration of the ship is valid without any suspension, and that the terms and conditions of the ship's registration have not been met. The company indicated that the attempt to register the Libyan tanker Badr with Israel is the fourth attempt by Livia and Bulgargeomin, as both companies orchestrated the seizure of the tanker in Bulgaria.
Source:Libya Observer
September 04, 2022 09:41 UTC
Family wounded as shell fell on their house in Wirshiffana
The Ambulance and Emergency Services confirmed the return of calm to the Ghout Abu Saq area in Wirshiffana, southwest of Tripoli, after clashes that broke out on Friday evening between armed groups leaving behind 5 wounded civilians. The Ambulance and Emergency Services reported on its Facebook account that "the situation is calm in all axes of fighting, and an initial casualty toll of 5 civilians were slightly wounded. The five injuries are among members of one family, whose house was hit by a shell as a result of the clashes that erupted with light and medium weapons between members of the 55th Brigade led by Muammar Al-Dhawi, loyal to the Prime Minister-designate from the House of Representatives, Fathi Bashagha, and members of the 03 Infantry Brigade led by Ramzi Al-Lafa, who is affiliated with the Government of National Unity.
Source:Libya Observer
September 04, 2022 05:37 UTC
US Welcomes Appointment Of New UN Special Envoy For Libya
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 04th September, 2022) The United States welcomes the appointment of Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment on Friday. Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations Taher El Sonni said at the end of last month that his country was calling on Guterres to quickly select a new special representative for Libya. "We welcome the appointment by UN Secretary-General Guterres of Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. The United Nations has been facilitating peace efforts in Libya since the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which left the country split between rival factions.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 04:21 UTC
Turkey supports Libya's Tripoli forces amid deadly battles
September 3, 2022A fresh round of deadly clashes has forced Turkey to step into fray and host high-level meetings with two rival Libyan leaders in a bid to de-escalate the tensions, Al-Monitor has learned. The meetings came after deadly clashes between the rival forces rattled Tripoli last week, leaving 32 people dead and more than 150 wounded. Ankara has grown aloof from Bashagha, who once had worked closely with Turkey while serving as interior minister in the GNA. The Libyan leader’s following rapprochement with France and Egypt, which have supported eastern-based forces, further fed into Ankara's mistrust. As Turkey can hardly break the impasse by maintaining its appearance of neutrality, Ankara will have to choose its side.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 01:31 UTC
Libyan armed factions clash on outskirts of Tripoli
Fighting has broken out between Libyan armed factions on the western outskirts of Tripoli, as forces aligned with the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba further consolidated their control over the capital. Libyan oil production, a prize for the warring groups, has repeatedly been shut off. During last week’s fighting, a major Bashagha-aligned faction based in Zawiya was said to be among groups that were repulsed from the outskirts of the capital. In the southern Tripoli district of Ain Zara, a powerful faction that backed al-Dabaiba during last week’s fighting took over a security headquarters. Following last week’s fighting, Bashagha and al-Dabaiba visited Turkey, which helped the now-divided western factions fight off an eastern assault in 2020.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 00:54 UTC
Clashes rock western outskirts of Libyan capital
Clashes break out in Warshafala, a district west of Tripoli that has seen numerous clashes since Gaddafi’s ouster. Pro-Dbeibah forces seize military headquarters in southern Tripoli. During last week’s fighting, a major Bashagha-aligned faction based in Zawiya was said to be among the groups repulsed from the capital’s outskirts. AdvertisementA powerful faction that supported Dbeibah during last week’s fighting has taken over a security headquarters in the southern Tripoli district of Ain Zara. Also Read Fighting rips through Libyan capital, killing 13 Libya has been on the verge of civil war for months.
Source:Libya Today
September 04, 2022 00:09 UTC