Emad Trabelsi (2nd-L), Interior Minister in Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), gives a press conference in Tripoli on August 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Libyan armed groups and authorities reached an accord in Tripoli to secure important infrastructure, the country’s interior minister announced Friday, following concern from the UN over recent fighting and … Read more
Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the capital, Tripoli. … Read more
Around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pickup trucks arrived at a residential building in a neighborhood of the capital of Tripoli. They stormed the house, bringing out a blindfolded man in his 70s. Their target was former Libyan intelligence agent Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, wanted by the United States for … Read more
The United Nation‘s migration agency said 75 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya earlier this week as they attempted to reach Italy by boat. The International Organization for Migration reported the latest tragedy in a tweet on Saturday, attributing the information to 15 survivors who were rescued by fishermen and brought to … Read more
A special forces vehicle passes a vintage car in downtown Havana, Cuba. Since the pandemic, long queues, squeezed salaries and power cuts have become a grinding reality for millions. On 11 July tensions boiled over in the largest anti-government protests for decades. Thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food … Read more
Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, died Tuesday of wounds suffered on the battlefield during a fight against rebels, the military announced on national television and radio. The stunning announcement came just hours after electoral officials had declared Deby, 68, the winner of the April … Read more
India on Thursday said it was in touch with Liyan authorities and international organisations in its efforts to rescue seven Indians who were kidnapped last month. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava during his weekly briefing on Thursday said, “Seven Indian nationals, hailing from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, … Read more