By Jerry Omondi & E KBenj At least 74 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead following a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. IOM in a statement said the boat was carrying around 80 people at the time of the incident,…
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Libya’s political actors agree on full withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign fighters
Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) and liaison committees from Libya, Sudan and Niger approved the establishment of an integrated mechanism for joint coordination and data exchange to facilitate the full withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign fighters from the country. The agreement was announced on Wednesday by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL),…
United Nations raises alarm over ‘continuing’ expulsions of asylum seekers from Libya
Updated at 1058 GMT on Monday 13th Dec 2021 – HICGI News Agency Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Spokesperson Rupert Colville, pointed out a “continuing series” of expulsions, including two large groups of Sudanese over the past month, and another group of 24 Eritreans, apparently at imminent risk of similar treatment. According to a team on the ground, on Monday a group of 18 Sudanese…
Can Saif al-Islam Gaddafi take back Libya?
TRIPOLI, Libya By Ahmed Asmar in Ankara Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, submitted his application on Sunday to run in Libya’s upcoming presidential election, according to local media. Al-Marsad news website published on Facebook a video of Saif al-Islam in the office of the elections commission in the southwestern city…
Museveni Meets Libyan Leaders
Updated at 1343 GMT on Thursday 04th Nov 2021 by E K Benj @kivumbi President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has met H.E Abdullah Al-Lafi, the Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council at State House Entebbe. Following this meeting he posted “I opined that Libya has its owners who should get a chance to make their own…
Libya releases 84 Nigerian Prisoners
By HICGI News Agency updated at 1259 GMT on 14th July 2021 The Libyan Ministry of Justice said Friday that it had released 84 inmates, along with their children, and had deported them back to their country, Nigeria. “The deportation was carried out by the team tasked with following up all the legal procedures of…
Who is the Guarantor of Africa’s Freedom? Museveni
“The other day Libya was attacked by Europe and no one could help it” Uganda President Elect Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Lwakitula-Western Uganda
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