by Client Client | Jul 22, 2026 | Libyan actors
On 22 July, the Benghazi-based Directorate of Anti-Illegal Immigration launched a broad operation to curb migration along Libya’s southern borders. The operations cover desert checkpoints and remote desert terrain used by human-traffickers. The department said that...
by Client Client | Jul 22, 2026 | Libyan actors
From 22 July onwards, demonstrations began taking place in areas in and around Tripoli, with protestors (mainly young men) closing roads using burning rubbish and old tyres to demand the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) and the Government of National Unity...
by Client Client | Jul 21, 2026 | International actors
On 21 July, the Libyan National Army (LNA) signed a border security deal with an unnamed private Turkish company to implement an advanced land border management and surveillance system to assist with monitoring and control over Libya’s southern borders. The LNA said...
by Client Client | Jul 19, 2026 | International actors
Prominent Egyptian fugitive Mahmoud Mohamed Fathi Badr and his wife were detained by “Libyan authorities” in the late afternoon on 19 July at the al-Tawfiq Hotel in the Dahra neighborhood of Tripoli. The incident remains shrouded in mystery, as official confirmation...
by Client Client | Jul 17, 2026 | International actors
On 17 July, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the 28-year sentence handed out to Ahmed Abu Khatallah was too lenient and does not reflect the seriousness of his crimes. Abu Khatallah was convicted of...
by Client Client | Jul 17, 2026 | International actors
On 17 July, Amnesty International said that ‘31 civil society organisations call on EU institutions and member states to urgently end their shameful cooperation with Libyan authorities on migration control.’ It said that plans to strengthen cooperation with rival...
by Client Client | Jul 16, 2026 | Libyan actors
On 16 July, the National Human Rights Institution in Libya (NHRIL) announced the death of 41-year-old Awad Shehat Al-Karimi Al-Obeidi under torture inside Qarnada Military Prison. It said that Al-Obeidi’s body was found near a hospital in Benghazi, where his...
by Client Client | Jul 16, 2026 | International actors
On 16 July, UN experts expressed serious concern over reports that more than 7,400 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are victims of a systematic pattern of arbitrary detention, collective expulsion and trafficking at the Tunisia-Libya border and in Libya, since...
by Client Client | Jul 16, 2026 | International actors
On 16 July, Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdul Salam Zoubi met in El Alamein, Egypt, the Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS, ‘Mukhabarat’), Major General Hassan Rashad. The discussions...
by Client Client | Jul 15, 2026 | International actors
On 15 July, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior (MoI) Emad Trabelsi met in Brussels with EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in combating irregular migration and human trafficking...
