Libya

50 people were arrested on Saturday in Brussels after police officers were attacked and shops damaged on the margins of a protest over the recent revelations of migrant slave markets in Libya, authorities said.A group of people broke…

At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast on Saturday and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli, officials said. The migrants…

France 24 aired Friday a report in which an African illegal immigrant claimed he was sold four times in Libya to work in pistachio farms in south of the country.This claim has been as funny as it has been shocking to hear in Libya,…

The Libyan Deputy Interior Minister Faraj Egayem has been detained by the forces of Libya’s eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar in Al-Marij town after the townsmen handed him over to Haftar’s General Command, sources told a Libyan…

Egypt's air forces destroyed 10 vehicles laden with smuggled weapons and ammunition on the country's western border with Libya, military spokesman said on Wednesday.The move comes as part of the continued efforts by the…

The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, confirmed Wednesday that his country called on the United Nations Security Council to review the reports about mistreatment of immigrants in Libya. Le Drian added…

The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah was named Tuesday the Chief Executive of the Year at the Petroleum Economist Annual Awards gala ceremony in London. The award for Sanallah came as his…

Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives (HoR) voted on Tuesday to approve some U.N. proposals aimed at unifying the divided North African nation, although major obstacles remain for a deal to stabilize the oil producer.Only a…

The Algerian ministry of foreign affairs confirmed on Monday that all Algerian citizens detained in the Libyan city of Zuwara have returned to Algeria on Sunday.The spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, Abdulaziz bin…

Burkina Faso’s foreign minister said on Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Libya over a report that black African migrants were being auctioned as slaves there. The decision by the West African nation followed the broadcast by CNN…

Newsing horror at news reports and videos showing African migrants in Libya allegedly being sold as slaves, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called on the authorities to urgently investigate the situation and…

France will be the first to welcome African refugees evacuated from Libya to NIger by the United Nations refugee agency, French officials announced Monday.After experiencing appalling living conditions at camps in the north…

The European Union (EU) and some other major European countries have set mid-December as a deadline for the Libyan eastern-based parliament to amend the political agreement on ending the country's political crises, a parliament member…

The Tripoli port in cooperation with the Libyan Health Ministry refused last February a shipment of medical equipment and medicines sent by the UN via the UNSMIL on the ground that it was expired.Earlier, Tripoli…

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…