Libya

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is concerned by the ongoing violence in the city of Sabha and calls on all parties to refrain from acts that endanger civilian lives and contribute further to the destruction of…

At least 16,000 African migrants have been repatriated from camps in Libya under an emergency plan, the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday.European and African leaders announced a plan for accelerated…

A new programme worth €50 million, to improve the living conditions and resilience of vulnerable populations in key Libyan municipalities has been adopted under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (North of Africa window).…

Workers' strike at the Libyan oil port of Al-Zawiya delayed loading activity on Monday but negotiations were under way to resolve the dispute, several oil and trading sources told Reuters. Workers at…

The former Libyan ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Aref Al-Nayed has officially announced that he is running for the 2018 presidential elections in Libya.Al-Nayed told Egyptian newspaper Youm 7 that he has been working…

A Spanish humanitarian group says it has rescued three migrant brothers who set out from Libya in a rubber dinghy to seek leukemia treatment for one of them.Riccardo Gatti of the aid group Proactiva Open Arms told Italy’s RAI state…

The World Customs Organization awarded the Libyan Misurata Automatic Inspection Office with the Certificate of Merit on the occasion of World Customs Day. The certificate was given to Misurata office for the…

IS (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing at a checkpoint in eastern Libya that killed at least three persons.A Libyan official said the attack Friday targeted a checkpoint on the outskirts of the…

 The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has accused the Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) of gambling with Libyans’ money, a letter issued by the CBL and obtained by Libyan News shows. The CBL said the LFB is investing abroad…

Libya's Third Startups Expo, a micro enterprise exhibition supported by the European Union, kicked off here on Saturday.The event, supported by the European Mission to Libya, hosted dozens of small enterprises and businesses, in an…

The Libyan navy on Saturday rescued 252 migrants seeking to reach Europe, in two separate operations off the country's western coast."We were alerted... to the position of a migrant boat" around 30km off Zawiya, west of Tripoli,…

The United Arab Emirates has provided the Libyan commander of east-based self-proclaimed army, Khalifa Haftar, with portions of Libyan frozen assets in Abu Dhabi, the second deputy of the High Council of State (HCS) Mohamed…

The United States military has carried out twice as many airstrikes against IS (ISIS/ISIL) militants in Libya since President Donald Trump took office as it has publicly acknowledged, The New York Times reported on Thursday.The NYT…

 Belgian Deputy Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said the report of the disappearance of frozen Libyan funds from the Belgian Euroclear bank are "fake news." The top diplomatic official was commenting on the…

A car bomb explosion has killed at least three security personnel at a checkpoint south of the northeastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya.While other local media, denied that the explosion killed three persons, saying they were only…

Authorities in Belgium have discovered the disappearance of 10 billion euros of frozen Libyan assets kept in the Euroclear Bank during the period 2013 to 2017, according to the Le Vif magazine.Le Vif magazine said these funds were…

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Wednesday, made a startling revelation about the alleged slave trade of African migrants in Libya.She told a half-full Parliament about how some Ghanaian nationals are…

The first DNA analysis laboratory in Libya has been opened to help identify bodies recovered from mass graves.The laboratory, opened Tuesday and run by the General Authority for the Care of the Families of Martyrs and Missing…

Reopening Libya’s 70,000 barrel-per-day Al-Feel oilfield, which was shut by a dispute on February 23, has been agreed on, the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) said on Wednesday. “It has been…

The US spy aircraft Havilland Canada Dash-8s carried out Monday a mission of surveillance above the eastern Libyan region to hunt "terrorists and individuals linked to the attack on US consulate in Benghazi in 2012." The Drive revealed.…