The Minister of Defense of Chad, Mahmat Sally, explains closing borders with Libya, Sudan and Central African Republic is for security reasons. According to the Tunisian newspaper Al-Shoroq, Chad has kept its trade ports with the three countries open, including Korean & Moody port with Libya. It is noteworthy that …
Read More »Chad deploying troops near border with Libya
Chad has deployed ground troops near its border with Libya, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The American news agency added that the Chadian move comes in the context of strengthening its military presence near the border with Libya, revealing that Chad has also deployed warplanes as well. The head of the …
Read More »Libya, Chad, Sudan &Niger FMs discuss border control
The Government of National Accord (GNA), Foreign Minister, Mohamed Al-Sayala will participate in the special ministerial meeting on a memorandum draft to enhance security cooperation and border control between Libya, Chad, Sudan and Niger. According to the Ministry’s media office, the meeting will be held in the Chadian capital N’Djamena, …
Read More »Libya, Sudan, Niger and Chad agree on securing Libya’s borders
Libya, Sudan, Niger and Chad agreed on Wednesday to coordinate security efforts to fight organized crime in the Sahel and secure the southern border of Libya. According to AFP news agency, the four countries said, at the meeting of foreign ministers in Niger, the southern border of Libya suffers from …
Read More »Subl Al-Salam battalion frees 8 drivers kidnapped near Chad
Subl Al-Salam battalion spokesperson, Ahmed Sultan said on Friday the battalion is negotiating Chadian gangs for the release of five Libyan drivers after freeing eight others kidnapped by the Chadian opposition. Sultan denied, in a statement to ArraredLG, what Sudanese media reported about the kidnapping of 13 Sudanese drivers near …
Read More »Immigration Agency receives 85 migrants from the Eastern region
The Anti-illegal Immigration Agency in Tripoli received 85 illegal immigrants from the Eastern region branch in the cities of Al-Marj and Shhat. The Agency’s media advisor, Milad Al-Saadi told ArraedLG on Saturday, the migrants, of Eritrean, Ethiopian, Sudanese and Chadian nationalities, including two children and five women, were transferred from …
Read More »Salame discusses problems in Kufra with Zuwiya and Tabu tribes
The United Nations special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, discussed with delegations from the tribes of Zuwiya and Tabu the problems facing Kufra city, such as services, development, border control, accountability and compensation. Salame met with the two delegations at a two-day meeting organized by the United Nation Support Mission …
Read More »African Sahel countries call for countering effects of Libyan crisis
The G5 Sahel called on Wednesday, in the final communique of the summit held in Mauritania, to continue efforts to achieve security and stability in the Sahel region. According to the Russian agency Sputnik, the Sahel countries discussed, during the summit challenges facing the region because of what they described …
Read More »International agreement to carry out emergency evacuations of migrants and UNHCR sets up onground centers to facilitate deportations out of Libya
An agreement for the emergency evacuation of migrants in Libya was reached at the African Union-European Union summit in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The agreement was discussed in the presence of the European Union, the African Union, and the United Nations. Nine countries present agreed to undertake the initiative – Libya, …
Read More »America’s Own War Criminal In Libya
(Republished from the Huffington Post) by: Aly Abuzaakouk At the onset of the Libyan Revolution in February 2011, Colonel (General) Khalifa Haftar, who had been living comfortably in exile in suburban Virginia for two decades, returned to Libya with the blessing of the United States to finally get vengeance against Muammar …
Read More »West African Diplomats Visit Migrant Detention Centre in Libya
(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) On Monday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), brought “seven West African embassies in Libya to visit an immigration detention centre in Tripoli,” said a report by the IOM. The IOM brought the embassies to the detention centre, which was holding citizens from West African …
Read More »UN Envoy Martin Kobler: The fight against ISIS Must be a LIbyan Fight and a United Fight
(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) Special Representative of the Secretary General Martin Kobler in a meeting in Paris on Tuesday urged Libya’s rival factions to unite alongside the Government of National Accord (GNA) in the battle against ISIS and stop fighting each other. “The fight against ISIS, which is the …
Read More »International Summit on Libya to be Held in Vienna on Monday
(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni An international summit between twenty nations is going to be held today in Vienna focusing on bringing stability to Libya, which has been plunged into chaos since the 2011 toppling of leader Muammar Gaddafi. Monday’s important meeting will be …
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