141 people killed in Libya’s Brak al-Shat airbase attack
An attack on an airbase in southern Libya has killed at least 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to renegade General’s Khalifa Haftar’s self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), a spokesman for his forces said. LNA’s Ahmad al-Mismari told the AFP news agency on Friday that members of a militia loyal to the UN-backed Government of National […]
Muammar Gaddafi’s son hiding in Zimbabwe?
One of the late Muammar Gaddafi’s sons is reportedly in Zimbabwe under the care of prison officials. Today ZimEye begins investigations on the late Libyan dictator’s adopted son, Abdullah Moussa Yusuf who Kariba Pastor Patrick Mugadza says has been incarcerated at the Harare Remand Prison after he claimed asylum in 2014. He came to Zimbabwe because the […]
Sub-Saharan African men migrants sold in Libya ‘slave markets’, IOM says
Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold. Migrants with skills like painting or tiling […]
Kenyan Doctors Killed in Raid On Libya Isis Base
Two Kenyan trainee doctors on the police list of wanted terrorists have been killed in a sting operation in Libya. Farah Dagane Hassan, 26 and Hiish Ahmed Ali, 25, who were interns at Kitale hospital before they fled Kenya, died in the Libyan city of Sirte after a raid against Islamic State remnants there. Before […]
Women and Tribal Leaders Call for ‘Balanced’ Libyan Peace Process
A delegation of Libyan tribal leaders and women leaders has called on the UN to take a balanced approach to the Libyan peace process. The delegation from the National Movement for Libya (NML) met with UN officials and U.S. government representatives while visiting New York and Washington D.C. to discuss the UN-led peace process in […]
Putting the U.S. First, At Africa’s Expense
In November 2016, the United States (US) concluded one of the most divisive presidential elections in its history. It is also hard to identify any public policy issues around which there have been strong and stable bipartisan cooperation in recent years. However, US relations with Africa have, in large part, enjoyed just such cooperation. Since […]
New Research Suggests Ancient Humans Helped Make the World’s Largest Desert
It seems impossible to imagine, but where the Sahara is dominated today by a landscape of sand dunes, just a few thousand years ago, it was a vast grassland dotted with lakes. An archaeologist has now suggested that we humans played a pivotal role in bringing on the rapid changes in ecology that caused a […]
Libyan Authorities in Tobruk Knock Radio Station Off the Air
Libyan authorities in Tobruk should immediately allow privately-owned Al-Wasat radio to resume broadcasting and should allow all news media to operate freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security forces on February 27 seized the radio station’s transmitter and sealed its office, Mahmud Shammam, chairman of Al-Wasat’s board, wrote in a statement published to […]
Benghazi Defence Brigades says in control of five cities and two major oil producing areas
The Benghazi Defence Brigades says it has captured five cities and two major oil-producing areas in the east of Libya after opposing forces carried out air raids around major oil ports overnight, seeking to regain control of the area. At least nine men were killed in the fighting on Friday as the eastern-based Libyan National […]
Militias collude with corrupt officials to extort and abuse migrants seeking to reach Europe
On February 21, the bodies of 74 migrants were found by the Libyan Red Crescent on the shore of Zawiya, a Libyan town known for being a capital of fuel smuggling and human trafficking. A Zawiya resident said he was on the beach as Red Crescent volunteers filled dozens of body bags. “The first thing […]
