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Libya: ICRC Monitoring the Situation of Detainees and Returnees

December 1, 2011 no comments

via ICRC – In recent weeks, the ICRC has continued to visit hundreds of detainees held by various authorities in the country and to clear unexploded ordnance in Sirte and Bani Walid. It has pro...

Libyan Berber People Protest for Cultural Freedom

November 27, 2011 no comments

Reuters – Several hundred people from one of Libya’s biggest ethnic minority groups pushed their way to the doors of the prime minister’s office on Sunday to press their demands for...

Libya: International Organisation Provides Aid for 10,000 People Retur...

November 19, 2011 no comments

An estimated 25 per cent of Sirte’s inhabitants are now back in their homes. Others who had been displaced by the fierce fighting that ended last month are coming to the city to check on the state of...

332 Nigerien Migrants Airlifted from Tripoli, Libya

November 5, 2011 no comments

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it has airlifted 332 migrants from Niger out of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The migrants were stranded during the Libyan conflict that ousted ...

Fleeing Libya: Safe Homecoming for 79 Nigerians.

October 31, 2011 no comments

More Nigerians who fled war-torn Libya at the height of the conflict have returned home after a long, tedious journey from Chad. They arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, coming in through ...

Senior Niger Politician Urges Saif Gaddafi to Surrender

October 30, 2011 no comments

Reuters – A senior member of Niger’s coalition government told Reuters the whereabouts of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam remained unknown, but that surrender was his best optio...

300 Bodies Buried in Mass Grave in Sirte

October 26, 2011 no comments

Reuters Ahmed Bani, the military spokesman for Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) on Tuesday (October 25) vowed to investigate alleged executions of pro-Gaddafi fighters, as reports of...

Over 1,220 Sub-Saharan African Migrants Fleeing Libya Arrive Safely in...

October 26, 2011 1 comment

The International Organisation for Migration, IOM, confirmed that the 1,222 Sub-Saharan Africans evacuated from the southern Libyan city of Sebha arrived safely in Chad. According to a press release ...

Gaddafi Buried in Secret Desert Grave

October 25, 2011 no comments

Reuters Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo’tassim were buried on Tuesday (October 25) in a secret desert location, a National Transitional Council (NTC) official said, ending a...

Nigerians React to Muammar Gaddaffi’s Death

October 21, 2011 no comments

The demise of Libya’s strongman and former leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, inspired mixed reactions amongst the Nigerian people. Gaddafi who was captured, bloodied, pale and injured was dragged, ...

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