The shambles has also made justice elusive in Tarhuna, where leaders on both sides of Libya’s divide are implicated in the Kanis’ rise. “They don’t even see Libya.”The brothers left behind graves that hold hundreds of bodies, according to a United Nations panel that recently identified several new burial sites in Tarhuna. Libyan investigators said they had found nearly 250 bodies so far, and identified about 60 percent. Ms. el-Hebshi, the retired nursing school head, said her eldest son was kidnapped in 2011 for supporting the anti-Qaddafi rebels. No bodies were ever found, and she continues to hope against hope, she said, that they will turn up alive in some distant prison.

The U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has accused the country’s politicians of being a corrupt class who rather stay in power than leading Libya toward elections. “The current political class wants to keep transitional governments ongoing,” she said, adding that same class have “hijacked the political future of Libya.”The Libyan elections, originally scheduled for December last year, collapsed after the Government of National Unity, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, failed to organize the vote. Furthermore, Dbeibeh himself violated a pledge not to run for president which he made after being picked for premiership by the U.N.-backed Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. However, Williams notably did not take any responsibility for the failure of elections, which comes at a sharp contrast with her criticism of the Libyan political class since the latter was partially a product of the U.N.-sponsored political process that brought Dbeibeh to power in 15 February 2021. The rumours of bribery at the dialogue forum were rife at the time and have been common knowledge in Libya for two months prior to Dbeibeh’s appointment.

“The migration crisis requires a serious approach and cooperation between the two shores of the Mediterranean,” declared Italian Senator Marinella Pacifico as reported by her country’s AgenPress. Pacifico reportedly made her remarks following a recent meeting in Rome with spokesman for the Tripoli-based government, Mohammed Hamouda. “Common action is needed between countries of origin and transit of migratory flows because the emergency solutions adopted up to now have not given the desired results,” she said. “Closing ports can be a deterrent, but push-backs are just a patch that is turning out to be worse than the hole. The Libyan coast guard, albeit with its frailties, has shown great proof of saving lives at sea.”

What this new division of power between competing political forces in Libya actually means is that the country has no real leader and that the interregnum period is far from over. For instance, reports of clashes between the main political forces currently appear with increasing frequency. With all that, it is clear that political groups in Libya are guided by their own interests rather than considerations pertaining to the global economy. He would go on to meet with Ukraine’s ambassador to Libya in the spring, where he emphasized his support for Kiev. On the other side, Turkey will step up its support to the forces in the west of Libya.

The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, instructed ministries, institutions and authorities to coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to conduct financial matching in order to start implementing the unified salary scale. This came in a letter addressed by the Minister of State for Head of Government Affairs and the Council of Ministers to the heads and directors of authorities, agencies, institutions, boards, and centers. Dbeibah approved the unified salary scale on June 18, although it has not yet been approved by the House of Representatives. However, he assigned the Ministry of Finance to determine the financial impact of implementing the decision.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has entered a default judgment against a Libyan military commander after he repeatedly failed to show up for depositions in a federal lawsuit in which he is accused of war crimes. The exact amount of the judgment against Khalifa Hifter, who spent decades living in the U.S., will be determined at a future date. At a hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Judge Leonie Brinkema adopted the recommendations of a magistrate who said the plaintiffs should be granted default judgment. Three separate lawsuits were filed against Hifter by different plaintiffs. Once a lieutenant to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Hifter defected to the U.S. during the 1980s and spent many years living in northern Virginia.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has entered a default judgment against a Libyan military commander after he repeatedly failed to show up for depositions in a federal lawsuit in which he is accused of war crimes. The exact amount of the judgment against Khalifa Hifter, who spent decades living in the U.S., will be determined at a future date. At a hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Judge Leonie Brinkema adopted the recommendations of a magistrate who said the plaintiffs should be granted default judgment. Three separate lawsuits were filed against Hifter by different plaintiffs. Once a lieutenant to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Hifter defected to the U.S. during the 1980s and spent many years living in northern Virginia.

The Prime Minister designated by Libya’s House of Representatives, Fathi Bashagha, has suspended the Minister of Water Resources, Mohamed Abdel Karim Doma, from office, Bashagha’s government announced on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Faraj al-Qatrani was ordered to serve as acting minister while Doma is placed under investigation. According to Bashagha’s government, Doma will be questioned over unlawful reestablishment of a steering committee for the management of Libya’s Mand-Made River project without consultancy with the government.

The U.N. Human Right Council decision to extend the mandate of the fact-finding mission on Libya for only nine months is not enough and needs to be extended for a year, Human Right Watch noted on Friday. The international non-governmental organization, said that the mission’s investigative work is “incomplete” as “human rights conditions in Libya remain precarious”. “While we welcome the draft resolution tabled at this session renewing the FFM’s mandate, we note with concern the extremely short timeframe proposed that would extend the mandate for a final nine months,” reads the statement of Human Rights Watch. “Human rights conditions in Libya remain precarious as serious abuses carried out by armed groups are rampant and impunity for past abuses continues,” it added. “The FFM’s investigative work has a key role to play in supporting pathways to accountability for past and ongoing violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Libya,” said the New York-based NGO.

CAIRO - 30 July 2022: The Immigration Ministry announced that it managed to bring home a national who disappeared in Libya for 18 months. In a statement released on Saturday, Minister of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs Nabila Makram said the ministry responded to a request submitted by an Egyptian citizen on the disappearance of his brother in Libya, where he was arrested for unknown reasons while working for a Libyan company. The ministry immediately contacted respective authorities in Egypt and Libya to find out the circumstances of the case and managed to release the national and bring him home, the note added. The ministry urged Egyptian expats to protect themselves through keeping away from areas of turmoil, stressing that Egypt is keen on backing its nationals and guarantee the safety of all Egyptians abroad.

The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) reported on Friday that 150 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 22 percent of the infection rate. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have reached more than 500,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,431 people in total. Over two million people received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while over one million were fully vaccinated with two doses.

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The U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, will leave her post on Sunday, July 31, announced the United Nations on Friday. “As you know, we do have a functioning UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The short extension was as a result of Russian objections who insist that a new UNSMIL head is chosen before it agrees to a longer extension. This led the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to appoint Stephanie Williams as his Special Representative in the meanwhile. The lack of an UNSMIL head has left a vacuum which analysts say has contributed to the current Libyan political and military crisis.

The Coast Guard of Italy has agreed on Friday to deploy a liaison officer to the command of the European Union’s Operation IRINI, which is in charge of overseeing the implementation of the arms embargo in Libya. This came following a meeting at the IRINI’s headquarters in Rome between the chief of the Italian Coast Guard, Vice Admiral Nicola Carlone, and the commander of the operation, Stefano Turchetto. “It was a fruitful exchange of views on the current situation in the Central Mediterranean and the existing collaboration between the two institutions sharing a large part of respective areas of operation,” reads the statement of IRINI. “The Italian Coast Guard assigned a Liaison Officer to the IRINI Head Quarters, assuring a reliable and prompt point of contact in case of interactions between Coast Guard Patrol Boats and ENFM operating at sea,” it said. “Admiral Carlone expressed his gratitude for the support and appreciation for the professionalism of IRINI’s Crews.”

Photo prise le 17 janvier 2020 montrant le maréchal libyen Khalifa Haftar lors de discussions à Athènes avec le ministre grec des Affaires étrangères. Photo: ARIS MESSINIS / AFP/FileSource: AFPNew feature: Check out news exactly for YOU ➡️ find “Recommended for you” block and enjoy! A US judge Friday ordered the military chief of eastern Libya, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, to compensate Libyan plaintiffs who allege he ordered the torture and extrajudicial killings of their family members. The federal judge in the state of Virginia, where Haftar lived before returning to Libya, ruled that he had not cooperated with the court and that by "default" was ordered to pay damages to the families. After taking on a senior military position in Libya's war with Chad, Haftar was taken as a prisoner of war, and subsequently disavowed by Kadhafi.