The health of a son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gaddafi was deteriorating three days into a hunger strike to protest his detention in Lebanon without trial, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hannibal Gaddafi was suffering from headaches, muscle pain and difficulties moving around, his lawyer Paul Romanos said. He started his hunger strike Saturday. “He is continuing his hunger strike and his health is deteriorating,” Romanos told The Associated Press in a voice message. The cleric’s family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan prison, though most Lebanese presume al-Sadr is dead.

FILE - Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Hannibal Gadhafi who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years began a hunger strike Saturday, June 3, 2023, to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said.

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Libyan authorities rounded up thousands of mostly Egyptian migrants and amassed them at the border, activists said Saturday, as Libya continued its crackdown on migrants. Human traffickers have benefited from the chaos in Libya and smuggled migrants through the country’s lengthy border with six nations. Lamloum and another local group, al-Abreen, which helps migrants in Libya, estimated that more than 6,000 migrants have been held at the border. A spokesman for the forces of military commander Khalifa Hifter, which control eastern Libya, did not answer phone calls and messages seeking comment. "The area is not equipped (to host detained migrants). "

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On Friday, June 2nd, the Italian coast guard announced that it had detained two German charity-run vessels rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean. The vessels’ crews, the coast guard explained, had failed to abide by a new law, passed by Italy’s parliament last February, which stipulates that after each rescue, rescue ships have to request access to the nearest port and sail to it, rather than remain at sea looking for other migrant boats in distress. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s government has defended the legislation on the basis that, with restrictions imposed on rescue ships, migrants are less incentivised to make the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean from northern Africa. One of the ships detained on Friday, the MareGo of the NGO bearing the same name, said it had picked up 37 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The Italian coast guard confirmed it had impounded a second ship, the Sea-Eye 4, which it had commanded to dock in the coastal town of Ortona in eastern Italy, carrying 49 migrants.

The British Libyan Business Association (BLBA)) today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Libyan Business Council (LBC). The LBC is the only legally recognised business council in Libya in contrast to other business councils who operate as NGOs. Welcoming the BLBA, Aldali said the LBC wants a strong relationship with the BLBA and its UK companies. He said the BLBA wants to assist the LBC and Libya in implementing its projects. Hancock informed the LBC that a specialist British company in bringing exporters to UK standards will be visiting Tripoli soon.

A police inspector has likened Libyan boxer Mohamed Ali Ahmed Elmushraty, better known by his nickname 'Lilu King,' to a “ghost” insofar as his fiscal presence in Malta. Police Inspector Mark Mercieca took the witness stand when the compilation of evidence continued before magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech on Monday. Court imposed travel bans notwithstanding, Elmushraty was repeatedly observed outside in breach of curfew and had even travelled to the Netherlands. The surveillance operation lasted 3 months, from 24 Feb to 24 May and was strictly limited to observation, said the inspector. Defence lawyer Franco Debono suggested that despite the lengthy surveillance operation, when the police had made the decision to move in and make arrests, no drugs had been found.

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and Head of the country’s Audit Bureau Khaled Shakshak discussed together in Tripoli today spending framework of the foreign ministry and regulating select procedures for diplomats representing Libya overseas, according to a statement by the ministry. The two also talked about Libya’s foreign debts caused by government’s delay to reimburse hospitals abroad for treatment of Libyan patients who benefit from the country’s nationalized health system.

Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily held talks on Sunday with members of the Follow-up Committee on Political Prisoners representing to exchange views on national reconciliation, transitional justice processes and concerns over the situation of detainees. During the meeting, which took place in Tripoli, Bathily “stressed the need to hold free, credible and inclusive elections,” the U.N. envoy said via Twitter. “I also recalled the ongoing efforts by the Presidential Council, the AU, UNSMIL and other partners on national reconciliation and emphasized the centrality of human rights in the UN’s work with Libyan partners.”

However 61 HoR members and some HSC members have already objected to the way their leaders have been negotiating their agreement, and have said they will oppose its ratification. The HoR was elected as a national parliament in 2014 to a four-year term. The HSC was created as part of a political agreement in 2015 from members of an earlier interim parliament elected in 2012. However, under a 2015 political agreement, the international community requires both bodies to approve any new constitutional rules allowing an election, or a change in government. Many Libyans have voiced scepticism that their political leaders are negotiating in good faith, believing them to be unwilling to bring forward elections that might remove them from their positions of power.

Now in the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, the Labour government is proposing reaffirming the PfP agreement it had staunchly opposed in 1995 – Alfred Sant pulled Malta out of the NATO programme immediately upon his election in 1996. In 2012, under Joseph Muscat, Labour deftly managed to draw Cachia Caruana into its parliamentary crosshairs, by accusing him of manoeuvring Malta’s 2008 reactivation in such a manner as to bypass House ratification. Little to no discussion took place on the proposal to retain Malta’s participation in the PfP, save for Fenech Adami’s intervention. By arguing that the prior PfP agreement ‘remained in force’, Cachia Caruana was proposing something in direct contrast to the “unconditional withdrawal” stated in the 1996 letter to NATO from then Labour foreign minister George Vella. In 2008, the PN reactivated Malta’s PfP a day after the elections, as a rudderless Labour reeling from its loss and Sant’s resignation was unable to offer a political response.

It is an intricate tapestry woven with threads of a humanitarian crisis, governance failures, and human rights violations. Once buzzing with the dreams of Libya’s future, schools lie in disrepair, their halls echoing the despair of a lost generation. The deplorable state of human rights, particularly women’s rights, is another pressing issue that needs global attention. Their fight for equality is not merely a gender issue, but a human rights issue. A stable Libya is crucial to a stable North Africa and, by extension, a stable world.

Governor of the Libyan Central Bank, Saddiq Al-Kabir, discussed with the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank the challenges facing the financial sector. According to a statement by the bank on Saturday, the officials specifically discussed, during the meeting in Washington, the challenges facing the financial sector and the proposed policies, especially in the light of technological development in the field of payments, digital currencies and climate change.

CAIRO – 5 June 2023: The number of Arab tourists visiting Egypt during 2023 expected to be the highest since 2019, the year in which witnessed the highest turnout of Arab tourism to Egypt. According to Mohamed Fathi, Head of the Leisure Tourism Committee of the Chamber of Tourist Establishments and Restaurants affiliated with Egyptian Federation of Tourist Chambers, There are large tourist flows that will arrive in Egypt during the summer from a number of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Libya, the Emirates and Kuwait. He added that this month also witnessed the arrival of huge numbers of Arab tourists, which raised the occupancy rates in hotels in, Cairo, to reach more than 80%. He noted that the occupancy rates in Cairo hotels, starting next July, will reach more than 95%, and will continue in this way until the end of August 2023, explaining that Arab tourism will raise the occupancy rates in the hotels of the North Coast, Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada.