by Client Client | Mar 20, 2023 | International actors
On 20 – 23 March, the US Naval Forces Europe-Africa held the inaugural African Maritime Forces Summit in Cape Verde focusing on ‘security at sea enable stability ashore.’ The US thanked the Libyan Navy joint delegation for participating and stressed that ‘regional...
by Client Client | Mar 20, 2023 | International actors
On 20 March, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf accompanied a delegation headed by Special Envoy Richard Norland and Chargè d’affaires Leslie Ordman in a trip to Benghazi. It met with Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander...
by Client Client | Mar 20, 2023 | International actors
On 20 March, the Council of the European Union (EU) extended the mandate of operation IRINI until 31 March 2025.
by Client Client | Mar 16, 2023 | International actors
On 16 March, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UK (in its role as the current lead co-chair of the Security Working Group of the Berlin Process International Follow-up Committee) hosted a meeting to discuss the way forward in the security track, the...
by Client Client | Mar 15, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 15 March, UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily hosted a meeting in Tunis bringing together the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) and several commanders of the military and security units in the West and East of Libya. The meeting focused on establishing ‘a...
by Client Client | Mar 15, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 15 March, it was announced in multiple major Western newspapers and media outlets, including the BBC, The Telegraph, Guardian, Vox, and Reuters, that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors had discovered that roughly 2.5 tons of unprocessed (or...
by Client Client | Mar 13, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 12 March, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi announced the launch of a security plan to secure Libya’s borders, ports and the desert to combat smuggling. On 13 March, the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency mobilised forces in Ben...
by Client Client | Mar 12, 2023 | International actors
On 12 March, a boat carrying 47 people from eastern Libya towards Italy capsized due to bad weather in the central Mediterranean about 177km north of Benghazi. 17 people were rescued and 30 are missing. The charity Alarm Phone accused the Italian coastguard of failing...
by Client Client | Mar 12, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 12 March, clashes broke out in Tajoura, in eastern Tripoli, between the al-Duraa militia (aka the Baqara Brigade named after its commander Bashir Khalaf Allah or ‘the cow’) and the Aswad Tajoura (Lions of Tajoura) brigade. They reportedly started due to a member of...
by Client Client | Mar 10, 2023 | ISIS
On March 10, a French couple who joined ISIS in Liyba were sentenced to prison by an Assize Court in Paris. According to reports, the couple joined ISIS in Libya with their two children in 2016 before being handed over to Egyptian authorities in April 2019 and...
