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LAST weekend saw an eventful couple of days in the Mediterranean waters off Malta’s southern coast. Over 140 people in two overcrowded rubber boats were saved by a coalition of civilian refugee rescue organisations within the island nation’s search-and-rescue (SAR) zone. I initially set out to write up a short report on the weekend’s rescues. But after speaking on Sunday with Eike, an activist who witnessed the events from the skies, I realised that the situation was much more complicated. In this, part one of two articles examining last weekend’s events, Eike tells us what happened o...

Will Peace Ever Come to Libya or Will Outside Powers Ruin Any Deal? The Libyan Civil War is at another juncture, but there is no shortage of actors who could spoil any attempt at peace. Parties who stand to lose from progress toward a permanent peace deal in Libya will try to halt the process, and will create ground realities that limit the implementation of any agreement that does emerge. The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) approved a voting mechanism Jan. 19 to select a new transitional government to shepherd the country to Dec. 24 elections. Separately, representatives from the cou...

Turkish troops stationed in Libya will remain there as long as a bilateral military agreement between Ankara and Tripoli is active and Libya’s government requests it, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday.

Mohammad Younes Menfi, chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, meets with politicians, tribal leaders and activists.

Thursday 11/02/2021 A 2015 file picture shows LNA commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar (R) with outgoing Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh during in the eastern city of Tobruk. (REUTERS) Those defeated at the Libyan Dialogue Forum in Geneva have no choice but to accept the new reality created by the results of the vote after the train left the station with the UN’s and international community’s blessing. These words are aimed in particular at Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh, who has lost his bet on the Brotherhood and hoped to become the head of the presidential council. He now has to re...