by Client Client | May 7, 2024 | International actors
On 7 May, the Russian Special Envoy for MENA and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov, received the Chief of Staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Security Units (and son of Khalifa Haftar), Khaled Haftar, in Moscow for talks on the situation...
by Client Client | May 7, 2024 | International actors
On 7 May, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Tripoli to meet with Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba. They discussed issues of mutual cooperation including combatting illegal migration, energy and the political process. Three Memorandums of...
by Client Client | May 6, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 6 and 7 May, protestors in al-Jamail, Raqdalin, Zaltan and al-Assah – all towns in the far north-west of Libya close to Zuwara and the Tunisian border – called on the Government of National Unity (GNU) to withdraw all militias from their cities within 72...
by Client Client | May 6, 2024 | International actors
On 6 May, the US Embassy said that last week, a delegation of military officials from throughout Libya participated in the African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) in Zambia which brought together 750 representatives from across Africa and other partner nations. The embassy...
by Client Client | May 5, 2024 | International actors
On 5 May, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba met with Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi to discuss progress at the Ras Ajdir border. Trabelsi noted that the MoI was taking steps to prepare the crossing ready to be reopened, with...
by Client Client | May 2, 2024 | International actors
On 2 May, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior (MoI) Emad Trabelsi led a delegation from Libya to an International Coordination Meeting on Border Control and Illegal Migration in Rome involving Italy, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, hosted by...
by Client Client | May 2, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 2 May, a bomb was discovered in Zawiyya in the immediate vicinity of the Sabiriya Police Station. The professionally-made Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was a 6 kg anti-tank mine with a device for remote detonation using a cell phone, which was attached to the...
by Client Client | Apr 30, 2024 | International actors
EU Operation IRINI released its figures for April 2024, noting it had inspected 628 ships by radio call and had inspected eight ships on board with the consent of the captain. 22 ‘suspicious flights’ were also registered, yet no mention was made of the well-documented...
by Client Client | Apr 30, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 30 April, the hacker group RansomHub announced that the Mellitah Oil & Gas Company had been hacked and 1 TB of confidential data was stolen. The hackers demanded the payment of a USD 50 million ‘ransom’ by 4 May. If it was not paid, the data would be published...
by Client Client | Apr 29, 2024 | International actors
On 29 April, US Special Envoy Richard Norland and US Charge d’Affaires Jeremy Berndt met with Osama Assed, Director of the Libya Centre for Strategic and Future Studies, to express their condolences at the death of their colleague Siraj Dughman. The EU Delegation also...
