Recently, Libya police embarked on a rescue mission and busted a Nigerian human trafficking gang. The Libyan Criminal Investigations Agency made the revelation revealed that it busted a human trafficking gang from Nigeria and rescued five Nigerian girls forced into prostitution in Tripoli. Sharing a photo, the Libyan Observer said: “The Libyan Criminal Investigation Agency has busted a human smuggling gang from Nigeria. During the rescue mission, the agency freed five Nigerian girls. Also, efforts are ongoing to arrest other members of the criminal gang.

Seven males of Syrian nationality appeared in court on Sunday 30 April to face terrorism-related charges, including teaching others how to use explosives and firearms. The accused – Ajil Al Muhsen, Adnan Maashi, Yazan Abduklaziz, Ahmed Kadas, Khalil Al Mahmoud, Ahmed Ahmed and Mohammed Mohammed – are believed to be Islamic extremists. They appeared before duty magistrate Astrid May Grima and pleaded not guilty to the charges. The charges received a mixed reaction by activists and prominent figures within the migration sector. “As a community, we remain committed to living in peace and harmony with our Maltese neighbours and friends,” they said.

Mahamat Idriss Déby, the transitional president of Chad, held talks on Friday with U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, to discuss the situation in Libya in light of recent instability in the region. According to a statement by the Chadian presidency, Déby and Norland had an hour-long conversation, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Chad Alexander Laskaris. “During the talks, the US diplomat also expressed concern about the continuing violence in Sudan, which could undermine efforts to restore peace in Libya,” it added.

Two migrant boats carrying a total of 50 people were intercepted by finance police and accompanied to Lampedusa on Saturday, taking to 430 the total number of arrivals since midnight in 10 distinct landings. The other carried 25 Tunisians, including one woman and two minors, who said they had set sail from Kerkennah in Tunisia. In accordance with international law, it is critical that all survivors disembark in a safe place as quickly as possible,” continued MSF. The decision to assign a distant port does not take the welfare of the newly rescued survivors into account,” it concluded. After the rescues on Tuesday the Geo Barents was instructed to disembark in La Spezia, three days’ sailing from the search and rescue zone.

Al-Tawati believes that Italy’s approach to General Haftar is appropriate, as he is the most powerful man in Libya and leads a real regular army that can control migration if given support. The current UN arms embargo on the Libyan army since 2011 has limited its capabilities to control migration. The only way to control migration from Sudan is through the triangular border area between Libya, Sudan, and Chad, which is under the control of the Libyan army. Al-Tawati concluded by saying that the vast desert area of the triangular border is impossible for the Libyan army to control without Rome’s support. Therefore, Italy’s only way to control the illegal migration crisis is through supporting the Libyan army, which is the only way to control the crisis.

Tunisia has received four women and five children from the Libyan authorities on Friday. They are the wives and children of ISIS fighters who were fighting in Libya. This is not the first time that Tunisia has received such individuals, as six children were received in 2020, and another group of children was retrieved from Libya and the Syrian-Turkish border. According to Al-Kabir, the women who were handed over to Tunisia had already been acquitted by the Libyan judiciary. The Tunisian security units are currently reviewing their cases, and the final decision will be made by the Tunisian judiciary.

Mohamed Auajjar, the chair of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya (FFM), led a three-year investigation by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate human rights abuses committed by all parties to the conflict in Libya since 2016. The mission urged the Libyan authorities to cooperate more closely to uncover the truth behind the widespread crimes committed against both Libyans and migrants in the country. According to the FFM, there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed. These crimes include arbitrary detention, murder, torture, rape, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances.

The Municipal Council and Emergency Room of al-Kufra, the southeastern Libyan city, condemn national and international media allegations of the city’s involvement in the conflict in Sudan. “We deplore the propaganda and lies by the Libyan media, including the Libya Al-Ahrar TV channel, the Libya Press platform, and all the Libyan media outlets that adopt these lies launched by international media to serve malicious colonial policies and ambitions,” the statement pointed out. “We consider that these actions aim to increase international interference in Libya, violate its sovereignty and confiscate its decision, as we call on all local media contact the media spokesman for the Kufra Municipal Council to obtain accurate information,” it added. “We affirm that LNA’s Subul Al-Salam Brigade is the one that guards the borders and combats crimes of human smuggling, drugs and weapons, and that the southeastern borders of the Libyan state are fully secured, the statement stressed. “We also deny the presence of any mercenaries or armed groups in al-Kufra, and we will take all legal measures against those who harm the city and distort its history,” it concluded.

The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), Farhat Bengdara, discussed with the Head of the outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the NOC’s development plan for the year 2023, according to NOC. During the meeting, Bengdara stressed that the plan to stabilize oil and gas production and increase it to 2 million barrels requires the solidarity of all state institutions, praising the Council of Ministers’ decision to approve an exceptional budget for the sector in the year 2022, which contributed to addressing bottlenecks that the corporation suffers from, whether in the conditions of workers or obligations or previous projects for the benefit of international companies, and the implementation of a number of developmental maintenance projects to stabilize production, NOC said in a statement. For his part, Dbeibeh praised the efforts of the Central Bank of Libya, the Audit Bureau, the Supreme Council of Energy, the Extraordinary Budget Follow-up Committee, the Board of Directors of the Corporation and all workers in the sector, for their continuous efforts to support the sector and maintain its stability, stressing the need to reach production to the target rate in the Corporation’s approved plan approved by the Supreme Council of Energy, the statement pointed out.

It is not the first time Prigozhin has raged about ammunition shortages and blamed Russia’s military, with which he has long been in conflict. And in a counterpoint to Prigozhin’s visibility, Shoigu was shown Friday inspecting military equipment and weapons destined for Russian troops in Ukraine. During the war in Ukraine, he has publicly accused some top Russian military officials of incompetence — behavior that is highly unusual in Russia’s tightly controlled political system. “Because of the lack of ammunition, our losses are growing exponentially every day.”Hanna Maliar, the deputy head of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, said Friday that Ukrainian artillery had destroyed some Wagner ammunition depots. Prigozhin has already threatened to withdraw from Bakhmut once before, in an interview with a Russian military blogger last week.

A threat by the leader of private Russian military company Wagner to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize a city in eastern Ukraine is another episode in his dispute with Russia’s regular military over credit and tactics

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The owner of Russia’s Wagner Group military contractor threatened today to pull his troops out of the protracted battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut next week, accusing Russia’s military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a notorious millionaire with longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, claimed that Wagner had planned to capture Bakhmut by May 9. But, Prigozhin said, his force hasn’t received enough artillery ammunition supplies from the Russian military since Monday. It is not the first time Prigozhin has raged about ammunition shortages and blamed Russia’s military, with which he has long been in conflict. He has already threatened to withdraw from Bakhmut once, in an interview with a Russian military blogger last week, if the situation with ammunition doesn’t improve.

Libya, Meloni meets General Haftar: migrants and Sudan on the tableThe meeting at Palazzo Chigi between the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniand the Libyan general Khalifa Haftar served for an exchange of views on some topics, in particular the unprecedented growth of migration phenomenon towards Italy. Haftar has been in Rome since yesterday to continue the dialogue on stabilization in Libya and North Africa, while the premier was in Tripoli on 28 January. Today’s conversation, which lasted two hours, was also an opportunity for Meloni, according to what has been learned, to confirm the Italian support to the action of the United Nations in Libya for the revitalization of a political process that could lead to presidential and parliamentary elections by the end of 2023. The Prime Minister also took the opportunity to discuss the destabilizing situations in Libya and neighboring countries, expressing particular concern, again according to the same sources, for the conflict in Sudan. Subscribe to the newsletter

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida address a joint news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto during his official visit to Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he hoped to see closer ties between Japan and Africa as he seeks to win over the "Global South" ahead of a Group of Seven (G7) summit he will host later this month. "Many countries of the so-called Global South are hurt and suffering from high food and energy prices. The cause of this issue should be traced to Russia's invasion of Ukraine," Kishida told a news conference carried live by Japanese NHK television held during a visit to Mozambique's capital Maputo. Kishida was in Maputo after visiting Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya as part of a trip that started on Sunday and will be concluded with a stop in Singapore on Friday.

This was arguably one of the largest quantity of uranium ore concentrate that had ever been misplaced. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesUranium ore concentrate, popularly known as ‘yellowcake’, is a type of uranium concentrate powder obtained after uranium ore has been milled and chemically processed. Yellowcake has very low radioactivity, equivalent to the radioactivity of uranium ore found in nature, and it is produced by all countries where uranium ore is mined. Nevertheless, the news of missing Libyan uranium ore concentrate did highlight serious problems with the national and global governance structures for managing uranium. Based on my experience in nuclear non-proliferation and politics, I believe that the missing Libyan uranium debacle illustrates two things.