At the European Parliament, the Egyptian House of Representatives’ Human Rights Committee chairperson and the rest of the Egyptian delegation with him have recently been ‘grilled on the government’s human rights record’. Tarek Radwan, the [ More … ]
Four main Libyan political leaders attended a peace conference in Paris on Tuesday and agreed to hold elections in December Libyan rival factions agreed on Tuesday to hold elections on 10 December. The agreement was [ More … ]
The Egyptian government’s attempts to mediate a peace deal between Presidency Council Chairman Fayez al-Serraj and General Khalifa Haftar were in ruins this evening after Haftar refused to meet al-Serraj, who then flew back to Tripoli. [ More … ]
The HoR has condemned the London investment conference on Libya as having no legal standing The recently held conference in London on investment and the reconstruction of Libya is legally invalid and places no obligations [ More … ]
Kobler said that Hafter’s forces have made progress in the interest of all Libyans UN Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler has said on his Twitter account that the army, led by Khalifa Hafter, has made [ More … ]
The New Arab has reported that a Libyan military official formerly affiliated to Khalifa Haftar confirmed that the UAE now maintains a military base that supports the operations of the general in eastern Libya. The base is [ More … ]
Tobruk’s parliament called the Libyan government in al-Baidaa to support Egypt with oil shipments for free amid a Saudi Aramco decision to halt the supply of the refined oil products to Egypt. The member of [ More … ]
Aqila Saleh, the head of Tobruk’s House of Representatives (HoR), has promoted General Khalifa Haftar to Field Marshal through parliamentarians in the east Libya. Tobruk’s parliament asserted that the Libyan National Army’s control of oil facilities [ More … ]
Many Libyans were shocked by the latest statement of Abdel Razek Al-Nazoury, the chief of General Khalifa Haftar’s army, when he revealed in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, that “Haftar granted the Egyptian army easements [ More … ]
A delegation from Tobruk’s House of Representatives (HoR) arrived in Cairo on a private plane from Tunisia on Tuesday, according to al-Ahram, a state-run newspaper. The delegation includes pro-political agreement members in the (HoR) and [ More … ]
Tobruk’s house of representative (HoR) has refused to give its approval to the U.N.-backed government known as the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is considered as a major blow to its efforts to maintain [ More … ]
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