Demonstrators gather for 20th consecutive Tripoli protest
Ansar Al-Sharia in Derna and Benghazi have planned and carried out a series of terrorist attacks and played a pivotal role in extremist networks stretching from Iraq and Syria to Mali, the United Nations has said.
A delegation of Libyan ministers headed by Deputy Prime Minister for Security Affairs Al-Mahdi Hassan Muftah arrived in Cairo yesterday for meetings with Egyptian officials on ways to establish or strengthen state institutions in Libya.
Libya's highest court has ruled that general elections held in June were unconstitutional and that the country's parliament and government, which resulted from that vote, should be dissolved.
The development further deepened the rift in the politically divided Libya, which has been mired in months-long deadly clashes between armed groups who have been fighting for the control of the oil-rich African nation.
The Libyan National Army (LNA) has called on tribes and tribal elders to handover those they know to be extremists or face the consequences if they do not.
The House of Representatives (HoR) has selected members of committees to assist and oversee government performance.
The governments of France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States have agreed that there can be no military solution to the Libyan crisis and have said that they are “dismayed” that parties have not respected the calls for a ceasefire following the recent meetings in Ghadames and Tripoli.
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Bernardino Leon, speaking on Al Arabiya TV’s Panorama programme, says there is an urgency to the process of dialogue.
Asked about the international community’s position with regards to the current political situation in Libya, Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni said that the international community does not recognise the GNC’s and Nuri Abu Sahmain’s comic play.
Mohammed Al-Mubasher, the chairman of the Libya’s Council of Elders and of the National Reconciliation Committee, has resigned over the continuing bloodshed in the country and the inability of his administration to bring combatants to the negotiating table.
The House of Representatives passed its Anti-Terrorism Law today. According to an HoR official, it was approved by a majority of the 116 members who took part in the vote.