Congress says No to Geneva now, but maybe next Sunday




The House of Representatives met in session today in Tobruk’s navy base to discuss its security and that of its members. In the absence of the President of the HoR, Ageela Salah Gwaider, who was in Cairo for the special Arab League meeting on Libya and to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, nothing was formally decided.
The enforced silence of Libyan journalists is killing
The Thinni government at its first meeting of the new year in Beida has cut spending on Libyans displaced as a result of the revolution and events since then from LD 41 million to LD 15 million. It has also decided in principle to reduce the number of attachés at Libya embassies around the world as part of its efforts to cut spending.
Following Tuesday’s car bomb in the car park of the Dar Al-Salam Hotel in Tobruk, where t
The Justice and Construction Party has said that it will participate in a national dialogue but only if all parties involved agree to respect the political process.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein has warned all parties involved in the fighting in Libya that abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law are criminally liable and that the situation in Libya is under investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The House of Representatives (HoR) is in the final stages of amending the controversial Political Isolation Law (PIL) passed by the GNC a year and a half ago.

Libya Dawn troops, under the name Operation Sunrise, say they have have made “a strategic retreat” of a few kilometres to protect the oil facilities from being bombed by opposition forces.

In a sign that neither side in Libya’s highly polarised political environment is prepared to shift its position and is losing interest in dialogue, UN Special Envoy Bernardino Leon has announced that the dialogue talks which were supposed to start tomorrow, Tuesday, have been postponed until early next week.
