by Client Client | Feb 21, 2024 | International actors
On 21 February, the US President Joe Biden extended the ‘national emergency’ declared in Libya for another year from 25 February 2024. The national emergency was first declared on 25 February 2011 and expanded on 19 April 2016. The White House notice said that ‘The...
by Client Client | Feb 21, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 21 February, Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi emphasized that all those responsible for last week’s Abu Salim massacre (where at least ten men were murdered in a house in Abu Salim on 17 February) will be held accountable without exception, stressing that...
by Client Client | Feb 21, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 21 February, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior (MoI) Emad Trabelsi declared that all militias (‘security and military services’) would ‘evacuate’ Tripoli before the end of Ramadan and hand over all their tasks to the Tripoli Security...
by Client Client | Feb 20, 2024 | Libyan actors
Late on 20 February, members of the Petroleum Facilities guard (PFG) published a video statement read outside the Mellitah Oil and Gas Complex in western Libya calling for their demands around salaries and benefits to be met and warning they would shut down Mellitah...
by Client Client | Feb 18, 2024 | Libyan actors
Shortly after midnight on 18 February, the bodies of at least ten murdered members of Abdul Ghani al-Kikli’s (aka Ghinaywa) Stability Support Agency (SSA) were found in a house in Abu Salim in southern Tripoli. Several of the men belonged to the al-Mashashiya tribe....
by Client Client | Feb 18, 2024 | International actors
On 18 February, the Italian newspaper Avvenire reported that there is an investigation underway in Italy against two key Libyan human smugglers – Abdurrahman al-Milad (aka al-Bija) and his cousin Osama al-Khuni. The investigation has been carried out by the Agrigento...
by Client Client | Feb 18, 2024 | International actors
On 18 February, the ruling (made on 1 February) of Italy’s top appeals court, the Court of Cassation, that sending migrants rescued at sea back to Libya is unlawful was made public by the Italian media. The court upheld the conviction of the captain of an Italian...
by Client Client | Feb 16, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 16 February, the Zintan Revolutionaries demanded the overthrow of Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba. They declared that they no longer recognized his government, saying it represents the rule of the Dabaiba clan. They called on all revolutionaries in the country...
by Client Client | Feb 15, 2024 | Other Jihadi Actors
According to UN reporting presented on 15 February, AQIM (‘Al-Qaida in Libya’) secures transportation routes to cities for transit or as hideouts in the southwest of Fezzan, collaborating with some Tuareg individuals. The report notes that AQIM is present in and...
by Client Client | Feb 15, 2024 | ISIS
On 15 February, Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General at the UN Office of CounterTerrorism, alongside other senior counter-terrorism experts, informed the UN Security Council about the ‘Eighteenth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL...
