Libya's interim prime minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah registered as a candidate for the presidency on Sunday despite having vowed not to do so as a condition of taking his current post and despite contested election rules that may prevent him from standing.
Libya's interim prime minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah registered as a candidate for the presidency on Sunday despite having vowed not to do so as a condition of taking his current post and despite contested election rules that may prevent him from standing.
Hundreds of migrants in Libya's Ain Zara detention centre live in basic conditions, sleeping on mattresses in the open air after a crackdown that rights groups have condemned.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants in Libya s Ain Zara detention centre live in basic conditions, sleeping on mattresses in the open air after a crackdown that rights groups have condemned. Libya is home to nearly 600,000 migrants, according to U.N. figures. Most are from sub-Saharan Africa, some attracted by the prospect of work in the oil-rich country despite years of conflict and chaos, while others see it as a jumping-off point for travel on to Europe. Over the past two weeks, authorities in Tripoli have arrested thousands of them and held them in detention centres in a crackdown that has resulted in several deaths. Guards and Libyan officials at Ain Zara say they provide the migrants there with food, shelter and medical care, but migrants said many of them lacked supplies and they remained very fearful. We are providing assistance, from medical care and humanitarian aid to beds, blankets and all necessary medical supplies, said detention centre head Ziad Amer. More than 1,00
TARHOUNA, Libya (Reuters) - Workers in the Libyan city of Tarhouna have spent more than a year exhuming bodies from mass graves that show the cost of a decade of conflict and the high stakes of a fragile peace plan that has left victims on the sidelines.