by Client Client | Oct 17, 2025 | Libyan actors
On 17 October, militias clashed in Sabratha after one of the members of Ahmed Omar al-Dabbashi aka al-Ammu’s militia was kidnapped. Al-Ammu is one of the leading human traffickers and smugglers in Sabratha.
by Client Client | Oct 17, 2025 | International actors
On 17 October, a Lebanese judge ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in exchange for USD 11 million in bail and a travel ban. In 2015, Hannibal was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Syria and taken to Lebanon, where the...
by Client Client | Oct 16, 2025 | International actors
On 16 October, human rights lawyers filed the names of some 120 European leaders – including French President Emmanuel Macron and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel – to the International Criminal Court, accusing them of committing crimes against...
by Client Client | Oct 16, 2025 | International actors
On 16 October the European Commission announced the comprehensive ‘Pact for the Mediterranean,’ a strategic framework to deepen cooperation with Southern Neighbourhood countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia, across three areas of cooperation: empowering people...
by Client Client | Oct 15, 2025 | International actors
On 15 October, Italy’s Chamber of Deputies has approved the renewal of the 2017 MoU with Libya on migration control, reinforcing cooperation to curb irregular crossings in the Central Mediterranean. The MoU is scheduled for its next automatic three-year renewal on 2...
by Client Client | Oct 14, 2025 | Libyan actors
On 14 October, clashes about the control of areas of influence occurred between gangs involved in begging and migrants from Black African and Arab countries in the vicinity of Semafro Omar al-Mukthar on the Coastal Road in Zawiyya. On 16 October in the early morning,...
by Client Client | Oct 14, 2025 | International actors
On 14 October, Lieutenant General John Brennan, Deputy Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), announced that Sirte will be a key training location of exercise Flintlock 2026 which will take place next spring. Other key training locations of this exercise will be...
by Client Client | Oct 14, 2025 | International actors
On 14 October, a joint delegation of Libyan officials from western and eastern Libya visited the HQ of Frontex – the European Border and Coast Guard Agency – in Warsaw, Poland, where they discussed cooperation on the technical level. Western participants...
by Client Client | Oct 13, 2025 | International actors
On 13 October, Human Rights Watch called for Italy to revoke the Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation which will renew automatically for three years on 2 November 2025 if neither party revokes it or makes any revisions by that date. HRW...
by Client Client | Oct 12, 2025 | International actors
On 12 October, South African media outlets reported that at least four Gazelle helicopters have been ‘quietly’ exported from Lanseria International Airport in South Africa to Benghazi via Russian IL-76 aircraft. Flight plans listed Amman in Jordan as their destination...
