The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said.
At least 2,000 people are feared dead in Derna after a powerful storm and floods hit the city in eastern Libya. That is according to the prime minister of a self-proclaimed government based in eastern Libya, Osama Hamad. He added on Monday that thousands were missing, but did not cite where his figures had come from.
At least 27 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days after being expelled from Tunisia towards the Libya border and abandoned in the desert in relentless heat, according to Libyan authorities.
Tunisia’s president has rejected criticism of his government’s treatment of Black African refugees after hundreds were rounded up by authorities and left on the border with Libya.
Libya’s head of the High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has ordered the dissolution of the electoral committees nationwide, in a move that effectively postpones this week’s presidential elections.
With one month left until the elections in Libya, it is important that the international community remains united in support of the process, UN Special Envoy Ján Kubiš told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Red Crescent says the bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants, have been found near the western Libyan town of Zawiya.
Turkey’s president and Libya’s prime minister discussed Israel’s attacks on Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Gaza and Palestinians by phone early Friday. According to a statement by Turkey’s Communications Directorate, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh also touched on bilateral relations and regional developments during the call. Libya’s new unity government headed by Prime Minister Dbeibeh […]
The parliament unanimously approved “the deployment of members of the Egyptian armed forces on combat missions outside Egypt’s borders to defend Egyptian national security … against criminal armed militias and foreign terrorist elements”, it said in a statement, Aljazeera reported. The decision comes after President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi warned Cairo could intervene in neighboring Libya across […]
UN-recognised gov’t says it controls Yarmouk, Sawarikh and Hamza camps, a new setback for Haftar’s bid to seize capital.
