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Italy found its way back into Libya Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh are seen duirng a joint news conference, in Tripoli, Libya April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed On April 6, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi met with his Libyan counterpart Abdulhamid Dbeibah in Tripoli. It was the Italian prime minister’s first state visit since taking office on February 13. More significantly, the visit has come at a time when Libya is entering a new phase o...

InfoMigrants By Following the April 11 release of Bija, an alleged Libyan trafficker who has been accused of crimes against humanity by the UN, several migrants told InfoMigrants about their experiences at the hands of this feared boss of the Libyan coast guard in Zaouia. "A monster." "(C)apable of shooting a human being as he would shoot an animal." Three days after the release of alleged migrant trafficker Abd al-Rahman Milad, better known by his alias Bija, "for lack of evid...

A wartime photograph of HRH Prince Philip as Lieutenant Commander Like many veterans, the Duke of Edinburgh was modest about his military career. As a result, few of us are aware of quite how illustrious, and at times perilous, it was – and, by extension, how much he did for his country. His naval career began when he was just 17 when, after leaving Gordonstoun, he joined Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth as a cadet in May 1939. Two months later, in July 1939, came the famous meeting...

Tunisair is to resume flights to Libya this month The air link with Tunis is invaluable for Libyans seeking medical care, international flights or just a break from the chaos and violence of recent years. Thursday 15/04/2021 A Tunisair Airbus A320 aircraft on the tarmac at the Tunis Carthage International Airport in the Tunisian capital. (AFP) TUNIS - Tunisian national airline, Tunisair, has announced it will resume its services from Tunis to Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya on April 27. Initia...

Routes Towards Western and Central Mediterranean Sea: Working on Alternatives to Dangerous Journeys for Refugees, UNHCR’s Updated Risk Mitigation Strategy and Appeal, January 2021 Format Introduction The dangerous irregular mixed movements of refugees and migrants across the Sahara Desert towards and through North African countries as well as via the sea routes to Italy, Malta, and Spain continue to take a devastating toll on human life. In 2020, some 1,5501 refugees and migrants were reporte...

The Libyan MiG-23 pilot that fled to a Greek WW II airfield and all the skirmishes between Gaddafi’s fighters and US and French reconnaissance aircraft until early 1981 Apr 15 2021 MiG-23 pilot Hazem al-Bajigni subsequently found himself accused of intending to steal a C-130 transport and fly the plotters out of the country. Eventually, he was forced to flee in quite a spectacular fashion. Relations between Libya under Gaddafi’s rule and the US gradually worsened after Tripoli’s announce...

Remembering Operation El Dorado Canyon: 35th Anniversary Remembering Operation El Dorado Canyon: 35th Anniversary An F-111F Aardvark from the 495th Tactical Fighter Squadron launches in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, April 14, 1986. The operation was the conclusion of extensive joint service and multinational military cooperation designed to ensure the complete and total destruction of terrorist training camps linked to the attack in the African na...

UNDP reviews impact on community of projects in Benghazi April 14, 2021 UNDP Resident Representative Gerardo Noto visits Benghazi to witness the impact of UNDP’s initiatives in people’s lives. — courtesy UNDP Libya/ Abdeladeem Ajaj UNDP Resident Representative Gerardo Noto visits Benghazi to witness the impact of UNDP’s initiatives in people’s lives. — courtesy UNDP UNDP Resident Representative Gerardo Noto reviews the Tatweer program ...

Zones of anarchy: Inside the chaos and depravity of Libya’s long civil war While there is relative calm in Tripoli, in Benghazi a tumultuous and bloody reordering is taking place. All mass graves are not the same, and the hundreds of pits behind Issa Haroudah’s farmhouse outside of Tarhuna, about an hour’s drive south of Tripoli, are distinctive because of their orderliness. They stretch like a marker-less cemetery across his land, between his almond groves. The men who carved this at...