Tripoli, Libya — AFP Libya may sit on Africa’s biggest oil reserves, but many families are struggling with rapidly rising consumer prices as the festive Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears. Since a currency depreciation has driven up the cost of imported food and other goods, said self-employed Mohamad al-Weheshi, 29, “we have...
LIBYA (AA) – The meeting of members of the Libyan House of Representatives and the High Council of State held in Tunisia earlier this week did not meet the aspirations of Libyans to bring all parties together, the UN envoy to Libya has said. Around 120 Libyan figures from both councils, during the meeting in […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pro-Palestinian protesters on Friday interrupted former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Columbia University, and called her a “war criminal.” “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal! The people of Libya, the people of Iraq, the people of Syria, the people of Yemen, the people of P...
Tripoli, Libya – – AFP Libyan authorities began sending more than 320 irregular migrants to their home country Nigeria, an immigration official reported to the media. War-torn Libya has become as a key departure point on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast for migrants, mainly from other parts of Africa, risking dangerous sea ...
LONDON (AA) – The European Union’s border agency, Frontex, and Malta are “systematically sharing the coordinates of refugee boats” trying to escape Libya with a vessel operated by a militia group, a report has said. The report, published by Lighthouse Reports, said Frontex and the Maltese government are sharing the informatio...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya on Saturday resumed commercial flights to Italy after a decade. A flight operated by the Libyan carrier Medsky Airways departed Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli for the Italian capital, Rome, the Tripoli-based Libyan government said in a statement. According to the Libyan Embassy in Italy, two Libyan flights ...
Susa, Libya – AFP As much of the world’s attention has been focused on the port city of Derna since flooding in eastern Libya, other cities are mired in the resulting damage. Ahmed Saleh, a 34-year-old civil engineer clad in a traditional white jalabiya, is still in shock at the scale of the destruction in his […]
Benghazi, Libya – – AFP Libya’s flood-devastated port city of Derna will host an international conference next month to aid reconstruction efforts, authorities in the east of the divided country have announced. There was no immediate reaction from the internationally recognized government in Tripoli. A tsunami-sized flash flo...
Derna, Libya – AFP Libya’s flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing river dams upstream from the coastal city after the Mediterranean Storm Daniel lashed the ar...
Derna, Libya – AFP In Libya’s flood-hit city of Derna, the Mediterranean Sea breeze mixes with the nauseating stench of human remains buried under the mud-caked rubble. More than a week after a tsunami-scale flash flood ripped through the coastal city, razing entire neighbourhoods, many of the traumatized survivors are still waitin...
