Tripoli, March 23 (IANS) Armed clashes broke out in Zawiya, a city about 60 km west of Tripoli, leaving one person dead, a local daily has reported. Al-Bashti Al-Zahouf, a member of the city’s Council of Elders and Notables, told Al-Mashhad newspaper that fighting erupted in the Dila-Qamouda area between two armed factions on Sunday (Local time). And both groups are affiliated with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU).The fighting underscores persistent tensions in Zawiya, where …
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Tel Aviv, Feb 10 (IANS) The killing of Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, ultimately reflects a Mediterranean region drifting away from political solutions toward managed disorder, where elections are indefinitely postponed, assassinations become corrective tools, and external actors adapt rather than resist, a report said on Tuesday.It added that this does not represent just a collapse but a far more dangerous shift towards normalisation.Writing for ‘Times of…
Tripoli, Feb 9 (IANS) Fifty-three migrants, including two infants, were dead or missing after their rubber boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said Monday. The vessel, which was carrying 55 people, overturned on Friday north of the city of Zuwara, northwestern Libya. Only two survivors, both Nigerian women, were rescued by Libyan authorities, Xinhua news agency reported. One survivor reported losing her husband in the wreck; the other lost her…