Police threaten to release prisoners over unpaid food bills, demand immediate Presidency Council action
By Ajnadin Mustafa and Moutaz Mathi. Prison chiefs discuss their financial worries (Photo: Social media) Tripoli, 27 June 2016: ...
Tag: Tripoli
Tension in Janzour as militias fall out
By Ajnadin Mustafa. Tripoli, 27 June 2016: There was tension last night in Janzour after the local Fursan Janzour militia ...
Warring Tripoli militias exchange accusations over clashes
By Moutaz Mathi. Tripoli, 24 June 2016: The two militias involved in clashes last night around Tripoli's Abu Sleem area ...
Kidnappers seize Tripoli student social activist
By Libya Herald reporter. Mohamed Shaker (Photo: Tripoli Good Project") Tripoli, 22 June 2016: One of the members of the ...
Benghazi without water following power cuts to Soloug reservoir; Tripoli in fourth day of water shortages
By Aimen Amzein. One of the two reservoirs north of Soloug (Photo courtesy of Google maps) Benghazi, 20 June 2016: ...
Amnesty International contradicts Ruwaimi prison head’s claim that murdered Qaddafi soldiers were handed to families
By Libya Herald reporter. Tunis, 17 July 2016: In a statement on the killings of 12 former Qaddafi-era soliders, Amnesty ...
Protests in Tripoli against power shortage as GECOL warns of total shutdown within days
By Moutaz Mathi. Protestors burn tyres in Gargaresh (Photo: Social media) Tripoli, 16 June 2016: Tempers are rising in Tripoli ...
UNHCR demands “thorough and impartial investigation” into Qaddafi soldiers’ slayings
By Hadi Fornaji. Tunis, 14 June 2016: The UN human rights organisation UNHCR has called on the Government of National ...
Now GECOL warns of complete collapse of electricity supply in Tripoli
By Moutaz Mathi. GECOL warned of complete collapse of power supply to Tripoli (Photo: GECOL). Tripoli, 13 June 2016: The ...
Kobler calls for international involvement in investigation into murder of Qaddafi soldiers
By Hadi Fornaji. Martin Kobler (Photo: UN) Tunis, 13 June 2016: UN Special Envoy Martin Kobler has called for international ...
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