by Client Client | May 12, 2022 | International actors
On 12 May, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) issued a statement accusing Amnesty International of unjustified politicization and escalation in its recent reporting on Libya. In the last month Amnesty has published a series of...
by Client Client | May 10, 2022 | ISIS
On 10 May, the Support and Stability Apparatus (SSA) announced that having received reports of cars bearing ISIS flags and of ISIS affiliates seizing a citizen’s property south of Mizdah, it had conducted a patrol of Mizdah and the surrounding valleys. The SSA...
by Client Client | May 9, 2022 | ISIS
On 9 May, unconfirmed reports surfaced of ISIS activity in Mizdah (180 km south of Tripoli) and potentially in Bani Walid and Ghariyan. According to reports, security forces in Mizdah and the surrounding areas mobilised in response to information from citizens that...
by Client Client | May 9, 2022 | International actors
On May 9, the Egyptian Border Guard reportedly seized a large shipment of weapons, ammunition, and narcotics in the Great Sand Sea area, south of the Siwa Oasis and adjacent to Egypt’s western border with Libya. Egyptian Colonel and Spokesperson for the Armed Forces,...
by Client Client | May 5, 2022 | International actors
On 5 May, seventeen migrants were rescued off the coast of Misrata by the Libyan Coastguard in coordination with the Turkish navy. The migrants were reportedly of Asian nationality and disembarked at the Khoms naval base, east of Tripoli. The Libyan Coastguard said...
by Client Client | May 5, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 5 May, former Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB) leader and current 777 Brigade commander, Haithem Tajouri, was reported by local media to have openly criticised the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba. According to reports,...
by Client Client | May 4, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 4 May, House of Representatives (HoR) Designate Prime Minister, Fathi Bashaagha, gave a speech to regional social and tribal leaders at the Ouagadougou Complex Hall in Sirte, in the company of senior GNS ministers. He indicated his intent for Sirte to become...
by Client Client | May 4, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 4 May, clashes broke out in Zawiyya between armed groups affiliated with Mohammed Bahroun (also known as ‘al-Far’, the ‘Mouse’) from the Hneish tribe and forces affiliated with the Zawiyyan Abu Zuriba tribe under the Stability and Support Apparatus (SSA) Western...
by Client Client | May 2, 2022 | International actors
On 2 May, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, stated in an interview with the Italian broadcaster Mediaset that the Wagner Group Private Military Company (PMC) had ‘nothing to do’ with the Russian state and was operating in Libya on a ‘commercial...
by Client Client | May 2, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 2 May, Special Deterrence Force (Rada) reportedly received a shipment of 100-150 armoured vehicles from Tripoli Port. Local media claimed that this shipment had originally been seized in March by the Libyan National Army (LNA) off the coast of Derna.
