by Client Client | Mar 30, 2023 | International actors
On 30 March, UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily started an official tour to visit Sudan, Chad and Niger as part of UNSMIL’s mandate to restore peace and stability in Libya ‘including through supporting the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) in the...
by Client Client | Mar 27, 2023 | International actors
On 27 March, the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya issued its final report expressing deep concern over the country’s deteriorating human rights situation. It concluded there are grounds to believe a wide array of war crimes and crimes against humanity have been...
by Client Client | Mar 26, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 26 March, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) organised a meeting in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli between commanders of the military and security units in the western, eastern, and southern regions, in the presence of the UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye...
by Client Client | Mar 26, 2023 | International actors
On 26 March, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that UN inspectors visiting southern Libya had found drums containing natural uranium. In a statement to the Associated Press, the IAEA said inspectors visited the area on 21 March and saw the material...
by Client Client | Mar 25, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 25 March, the SOS Mediterranee group said that the Libyan coast guard had fired warning shots at its search and rescue vessel, the Ocean Viking, as it responded to a distress call from a rubber boat carrying migrants in the Central Mediterranean. The coast guard...
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...
