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Hundreds of activists flocked to the Libyan Embassy in Paris on Saturday, outraged with the government’s failure to tackle people smuggling after a CCN report unveiled a network of migrant slave auctions in Libya.About a thousand…

A Libyan boy named Abdelraoef Al-Ojali was kidnapped from Hay Al-Salam neighbourhood in Benghazi by unknown persons on Friday.The father of the boy told the press that the kidnappers called and asked for 2 million Libyan dinars…

According to a defense official, the drone strike in the desert of central Libya Friday killed "several" ISIS militants in a sign the Pentagon may be ramping up pressure on terror groups in Africa, it added.The most…

The Libyan national football team has topped group 3 of the CHAN that will be held in Morocco in January 2018.Nigeria, Rwanda and Guinea were the other three teams in the same group.According to the CHAN organisers, the first…

A delegation from Libya's Tobruk-based House of Representatives has visited Ankara and expressed their intention for close cooperation with Turkey. The delegation met with officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Parliament and the…

Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said Friday."A high-level committee has been convened encompassing…

The U.N. delegate for Libya says he is confident that competing parliaments in the north African country "are close to a consensus" on a framework to end the crisis.Ghassan Salame told the Security Council Thursday that the U.N. has…

Italy has defended its policy on blocking migrants in Libya, saying the deal, denounced as "inhumane" by the UN, was essential to stop boat departures towards Europe."The alternative cannot be to resign ourselves to the impossibility of…

The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, Mohamed Badie, lost his appeal on Wednesday against a life sentence for his role in violent clashes during political turmoil in 2013, judicial sources said.The judgment by the court of…