Today, Tuesday, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the storming of its embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, whose buildings were looted and vandalized. The ministry’s statement stated that it “condemns the storming of the Libyan embassy building in Khartoum and the looting of its contents,” whose staff had been evacuated due to the violence. The Libyan ministry expressed its “deep regret and resentment of such actions” and said that it “calls on the warring parties in Sudan to renounce violence and to protect diplomatic missions and their headquarters, in accordance with the Vienna Convention, which stipulates the need to provide protection for embassies and diplomatic missions.”In its statement, Libya indicated its “extreme concern for the stability of Sudan and its people,” but renewed its condemnation of the repeated attacks on the headquarters of some diplomatic missions in the Sudanese capital. Last Thursday, the Libyan ministry condemned the attack on the office of the Libyan military attache in Khartoum, calling for “the pursuit of those proven to be involved in this criminal act.”

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Libya’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned an attack on its embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, whose buildings were ransacked and looted. Tripoli “denounced the assault and looting” of the Libyan embassy building in Khartoum, whose staff had been evacuated due to the violence, according to a ministry statement, expressing its “deep regret and displeasure” at such acts, the Libyan ministry “calls on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to reject violence [….] and to protect diplomatic representations”, in the spirit of the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic relations between States, which “stipulates the obligation to protect embassies and diplomatic missions”. Last Thursday, the Libyan ministry deplored an attack on the offices of the Libyan military attaché in Khartoum, calling for those responsible for this “criminal act” to be “identified and prosecuted”. The last group of Libyan nationals was evacuated from Sudan on 13 May, according to the Libyan embassy in Khartoum.

After expressing its displeasure for such act, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Libya called on the parties in conflict in Sudan not to practice violence and to protect diplomatic representations, as established by the Vienna Convention. Five days ago, the foreign ministry of Libya condemned an attack in Khartoum against the office of the Libyan military attaché, an act it considered criminal. According to the digital portal Africa News, other countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, also condemned the assaults against diplomatic headquarters in Sudan. Both Libya and other states reiterated several times their call to put an end to the conflict in Sudan, which broke out last April 15 with clashes between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. ef/afl/ro/obf

(@ChaudhryMAli88)Libya's rival administrations in the east and west have reached a tentative agreement to elect the North African nation's next president next January, Libyan media reported TuesdayTUNIS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 30th May, 2023) Libya's rival administrations in the east and west have reached a tentative agreement to elect the North African nation's next president next January, Libyan media reported Tuesday. Libyans were due to elect a president in December 2021 but the vote never took place. The rival administrations have finally agreed on a legal framework for the presidential and parliamentary elections following weeks of talks in the Moroccan port of Bouznika, Al-Unwan news website reported, citing a source familiar with the decision. Parliamentary elections are expected to be held in December this year, followed by presidential elections in January 2024. The rivals have agreed on eligibility requirements for candidates, one of the most contentious issues on the table.

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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 726 migrants, including women and children, were rescued and returned to Libya during the past week. “In the period of 21-27 May 2023, 726 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM said in a statement. So far this year, a total of 5,784 illegal immigrants have been rescued and returned to Libya, the organization said, adding 643 illegal immigrants died and 332 others went missing off the Libyan coast on the central Mediterranean route. The Libyan Interior Ministry said on Monday that it arrested 139 illegal immigrants after they were kidnapped by a criminal trafficking group in a farm located some 350 km east of the capital Tripoli.

Criminal proceedings against a Libyan man accused of several brutal murders, and other violent crimes, remain stuck after the defendant seemingly vanished while on bail. Ib Abukem, a former soldier in Gaddafi’s army, had managed to slip under the police’s radar some time in 2022 and has likely absconded from Malta. Five months later, he was back in court, charged with the attempted murder of three Paceville bouncers. The following year, Ib Abukem was charged again, this time with committing aggravated theft and cocaine possession. He was granted bail on 7 August, only to be arrested 12 days later after allegedly robbing an elderly woman at knifepoint.

Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including the beheading of Egyptian Christians in 2015. A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison for their role in a deadly ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. The court sentenced three minors to 10 years in prison each, said lawyer Lotfi Mohaychem. ISIL and other groups exploited the chaos that engulfed Libya after the 2011 uprising that toppled and later killed longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Hundreds of alleged former ISIL fighters remain jailed in Libyan prisons, many of whom are still awaiting trial.

STORY: The Attorney General's office said in a statement that one other person was sentenced to 12 years in prison, six to 10 years, one to five years and six to three years while five were acquitted and three others died before their case came to trial. Islamic State's Libyan branch was one of the militant group's strongest outside its original territory in Iraq and Syria, taking advantage of the chaos and warfare that followed a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. In 2015 it launched an attack on the luxury Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing nine people, before abducting and beheading dozens of Egyptian Christians whose deaths it featured in grisly propaganda films. After gaining territory in Benghazi, Derna and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya, the group seized the central coastal city of Sirte, holding it until late 2016 as it enforced a harsh regime of public morality backed up by brutal punishments.

The source also stated that the General Staff Chief has rejected any further wars after the country entered a ceasefire, warning of the potential collapse of the military situation in the western region. The Ministry of Defense in the National Unity Government is a political portfolio, and the use and issuance of military orders and war are the sole responsibility of the General Staff, the source explained. The Chief of Staff, General Mohammed Haddad, confirmed to the UN mission in a call that he did not issue any orders to bomb Zawiya. However, another government source revealed that the Defense Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, is preparing for a ground attack on Zawiya and its surroundings. It remains unclear whether this attack has been authorized by the General Staff or the Presidential Council.

Suspects sit behind bars during a judgment sentence against 56 defendants accused of joining Islamic State group in the court in Misrata. (Photo Credit: Reuters)Libya, May 30 (ANI): A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and 14 others to life imprisonment for their participation in a fatal ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included killing a group of Egyptians and capturing the city of Sirte in 2015, Al Jazeera reported. Subsequently, the group kidnapped and beheaded scores of Egyptian Christians, whose killings were depicted in gory propaganda videos, Al Jazeera reported. "The court sentenced those guilt was demonstrated and acquitted those against whom there was insufficient evidence," he added. In Libyan jails, there are still hundreds of purported ex-ISIL combatants detained, many of whom are still awaiting trial, Al Jazeera reported.

© Provided by Firstpost Libya hands death penalties to 23 Islamic State affiliatesA court in Libya handed down sentences to individuals involved in a violent campaign carried out by the Islamic State (IS), resulting in 23 people being sentenced to death and another 14 receiving life imprisonment. This campaign involved the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians and the capture of the city of Sirte in 2015. In 2015, the group launched an assault on the luxurious Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, resulting in the deaths of nine people. After gaining control over Benghazi, Derna, and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya, IS seized the central coastal city of Sirte. Speaking in court on Monday, Fawzia Arhuma said she welcomed the death sentences after her son was killed by the group at a power station near Sirte.

A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and 14 others to life imprisonment for their participation in a fatal ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included killing a group of Egyptians and capturing the city of Sirte in 2015, Al Jazeera reported. The statement added that three persons passed away before trial and three others were acquitted. Subsequently, the group kidnapped and beheaded scores of Egyptian Christians, whose killings were depicted in gory propaganda videos, Al Jazeera reported. Mohaychem said, “As lawyers for the victims’ families, we see the verdict of the court as very satisfying and very just.”“The court sentenced those guilt was demonstrated and acquitted those against whom there was insufficient evidence,” he added. In Libyan jails, there are still hundreds of purported ex-ISIL combatants detained, many of whom are still awaiting trial, Al Jazeera reported.

A Libyan court on Monday condemned to death 23 jihadists convicted of fighting with the Islamic State group in the north African country during chaos that followed dictator Moamer Kadhafi’s fall, the prosecutor’s office said. This was the first group of 320 alleged IS jihadists to be tried and sentenced. Fourteen other accused were sentenced to life in prison, after the trial that began last August in the western city of Misrata, the prosecution statement said. “As lawyers for the victims’ families we see the verdict of the court as very satisfying and very just," Mohaychem said. “The court sentenced those whose guilt was demonstrated and acquitted those against whom there was insufficient evidence."