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...
by Client Client | Feb 15, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 15 February, at least two people were killed in Zawiyya in a skirmish near the university between Othman al-Lahab’s 103rd Brigade (aka al-Silaa Brigade) and members of the Criminal Investigation Department. The al-Silaa Brigade provides security for the...
by Client Client | Feb 14, 2024 | Libyan actors
On 14 February, sources reported that the Libyan National Army (LNA) began conducting military mobilisations in Central Libya. Specifically, Khalifa Haftar’s sons, Saddam and Khaled, dispatched fighters and military vehicles towards Sirte and Jufra, to conduct...
by Client Client | Feb 14, 2024 | International actors
On 14 February, Amnesty International issued a statement accusing the Tripoli-based Internal Security Agency (ISA) of ‘an intensified crackdown on freedom of thought, expression and belief’ with dozens of men, women and children subjected to a range of abuses,...