Libya

Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images Tunisia’s President Kais Saied attends the opening session of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunisia’s capital Tunis in August 2022. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories.

By Anna Foster BBC News, Derna 16 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, The BBC’s Anna Foster walks along a “wasteland” that used to be a riverbed Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing

Editor’s note: The following message is from Director of International Students and Scholars Services Greg Wymer in the aftermath of the earthquake in Morocco and the flooding in Libya. On behalf of CSU and the Office of International Programs, we are reaching out to express our genuine sympathies for those affected by the earthquake in […]

The initial floods in northeastern Libya — after torrential rain this past weekend — were bad enough. But the worst of the damage was not a result of those floods. It has instead come from the subsequent bursting of two dams near the coastal city of Derna. The waters that those dams had been holding […]

(Tunis) – Tunisian security forces have collectively expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant women, since July 2, 2023 to a remote, militarized buffer zone at the Tunisia-Libya border, Human Rights Watch said today. The group includes people with both regular and irregular legal status in Tunisia, expelled without […]

Aid agencies say hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back to Tunisia after being pushed into a dangerous no-man’s-land on the Libyan border By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press July 11, 2023, 5:59 AM ET • 3 min read TUNIS, Tunisia — Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are being transferred back […]

Success in diplomacy, like success in life—to borrow from an old cliché—largely depends on showing up. But for over half a decade, the United States hasn’t been showing up in Libya, at least not in a way that is sustained and meaningful. It speaks to a U.S. State Department approach to the country that is […]

CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, killing at least eight people, while 58 others were still missing, the country’s Red Crescent said Wednesday. Tawfik al-Shukri, spokesman for the Libyan Red Crescent, said the shipwreck took place Tuesday off the Mediterranean town of Garabulli, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) east of […]

CAIRO (AP) — Around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pick-up trucks arrived at a residential building in a neighborhood of the capital of Tripoli. They stormed the house, bringing out a blindfolded man in his 70s. Their target was former Libyan intelligence agent Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, wanted by the […]

(Beirut) – A visit to Libya by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has reignited hope for long-delayed justice for the victims of a militia that controlled a town during the 2019-2020 battle for Tripoli, the capital, Human Rights Watch said today. Members of the militia, known as al-Kaniyat, and their affiliates detained, tortured, disappeared, […]


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