Activists from different regions of Libya called for Saturday protest marches to demand dropping all political bodies in Libya, the central governor of Libya, and all directors appointed through quotas. The activities gave the regions of Tripoli, Benghazi and Sabha the freedom to choose the method of assembly, provided that it be at the same…
Category: LIBYA
Al-Saraj’s Resignation Will Escalate Disputes Between GNA Officials and Militias of Tripoli and Misrata
A failed government that relied on extremists and militias to consolidate its power Tripoli – The Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, announced, on Wednesday, his desire to hand over his duties by the end of October, in a move likely to increase political ambiguity in Tripoli and even internal…
LNA Operation in Sebha Was a Painful Blow to ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood
The security operation carried out by the Libyan National Army in the city of Sebha represented a painful blow to the ISIS terrorist organization by eliminating one of its most prominent emirs in North Africa and dismantling his cell. It also perplexed Muslim Brotherhood politicians and the media as they do not consider ISIS a…
International Consultations on Libya See a Breakthrough
Suzan El Ghitani Libyan politician Said Rashwan confirmed that the consultations that took place in Morocco, Egypt and Switzerland began to break the political deadlock that dominates the Libyan scene, adding in an interview with the Africa News Portal that there are direct relations and contacts between the Libyan parties that were previously missing. To…
Prime Minister of Eastern Libya’s Government Resigns While Fayez al-Saraj Clings to Power
Libyan youth block a road with burning tires in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Benghazi on September 12, 2020 Abdullah al-Thinni’s government in eastern Libya resigned, responding to the calls of protesters who took to the streets of Benghazi, al-Bayda, Tobruk, Shahat, al-Marj, and the marginalized areas of the south, while the government of Fayez…
UNSMIL Condemns al-Marj Security Directorate for Resisting “Peaceful” Arsonists
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a baffling statement on the attack on the Security Directorate in the city of al-Marj and the attempted arson in which it tacitly supported the attack, describing the attackers, one of whom was killed, as “peaceful demonstrators”. In a statement issued Sunday evening, it wrote: “UNSMIL…
Militia Control of the CBL and GNA Has Caused Libya’s Financial Chaos
The Speaker of the House of Representative (HoR), Chancellor Aguila Saleh warned in a statement on Friday, of the difficult phase that Libya is going through and the external and internal agendas aimed, as he put it, to perpetuate the chaos in the country and plunder its wealth. Chancellor Aguila Saleh added that Libya is…
Libya: Militias, Multiple Tracks, Foreign Meddling, Prevent Progress in Dialogues
The United States and Russia entered the Libyan-Libyan dialogue by opening parallel paths to the Moroccan Bouznika path, in an effort to break through the political blockage deepened by dissonant regional and international agendas, and the complexity of the proliferation of arms, militias, mercenaries, and the direct Turkish military presence in western Libya. The multiplicity…
The Plot Against Libya
Eric Draitser The scorching desert sun streams through narrow slats in the tiny window. A mouse scurries across the cracked concrete floor, the scuttling of its tiny feet drowned out by the sound of distant voices speaking in Arabic. Their chatter is in a western Libyan dialect distinctive from the eastern dialect favored in Benghazi….
Libyan Army Comments on the Visit of the Presidential Delegation to Cairo
Africa News Portal Major General Ahmed Al-Mesmari, spokesman for the Libyan army, said that the visit of a delegation from the Presidency Council to Cairo, including the advisor to Fayez Al-Sarraj, comes within the framework of the latter’s fears of circumventing the Presidency Council. In an interview with Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath, Al-Mesmari added that what is…
Tripoli, Libya: The People Caught Between Warring Militias
The people of Tripoli are caught in the struggle between the militias of Al Saraj and the militias belonging to the Minister of Interior. President Fayez al-Sarraj is the son of an ancient Tripoli family that descend from Turkish roots, according to the memoirs of his father, Mustafa al-Sarraj, one of the politicians who were…
LPNM Statement on the Youth Movement in Tripoli
Press Statement Concerning the Youth Movement in the Capital, Tripoli. The city of Tripoli is witnessing these days a popular youth movement to denounce the poor living conditions the citizen suffers from power cuts, lack of liquidity, spread of disease, crime and mercenaries in the streets of the capital, foreign interference in Libyan affairs, and…
