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1,700 Africans stuck in southern Libya need way out – IOM

July 8, 2012 no comments

(Reuters) – More than 1,700 sub-Saharan African migrants have now taken refuge at a southern Libyan desert town and Gaddafi stronghold amid urgent efforts to try to evacuate them to safety, an ...

Libyan authorities take back Tripoli International Airport from rebels...

June 5, 2012 no comments

Some air traffic has resumed at Tripoli airport, officials say, as Libyan authorities have regained control of the Tripoli International Aiprot a day after it was seized and shut down by a militia gr...

Convicted Lockerbie bomber buried in Libya (video)

May 21, 2012 no comments

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al Megrahi, who died on Sunday, has been buried with little fanfare at a cemetery in Janzour, west of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligenc...

ICC says there’s “great evidence” against Gaddafi...

April 20, 2012 no comments

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that Libyan prosecutors have collected “great evidence” against the son of former dictator Moammar Gad...

Boko Haram is getting arms looted from Libya

April 13, 2012 no comments

Boko Haram is gaining firepower through al-Qaeda connections, said to be furnishing the radical sect with arms looted from Libya. Recent reports say weapons looted in the northern African country, cu...

Libyan civil war weapons smuggled into the hands of Boko Haram –...

January 26, 2012 no comments

The United Nations believes the large cache of weapons from the recently ended Libyan civil war could make its way into the hands of members of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram in Nigeria as well ...

Fighting Flares in Tribal Dispute South of Tripoli – Reuters

December 13, 2011 no comments

Reuters – Rival militias in an area south-west of the Libyan capital of Tripoli exchanged heavy gunfire on Monday, 12 December after a dispute flared up between them that local residents said h...

File Photo - Some sub-Saharan Africans in Libya

Coming Home: 75 Nigerians Return From Libya

December 10, 2011 no comments

More Nigerians return home from recently war-ravaged Libya, this time around, 75 Nigerian migrants, previously evacuated to Chad, were transported back home. They were accompanied by officials of the...

Saadi Gadhafi Caught at Mexican Border – AP

December 7, 2011 no comments

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday it has broken up an international plot to smuggle a son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico under false names and with fa...

Libya Arrests 500 Sub-Saharan Migrants Bound for Italy

December 6, 2011 no comments

Thirty-two year old Anthony Agiexeri, a Nigerian migrant living in Libya was on a boat bound for Italy when Libyan authorities intercepted the vessel, taking him and hundreds other sub-Saharan migran...

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