Libya

14 Sep 2021; MEMO: Eight members of the same family were wounded when a landmine was planted by the Russian Wagner Group, which fights on the side of renegade General Khalifa Haftar in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Anadolu reported.

The victims were six children and their parents, the report added.

Vidad Abu Al-Niran, head of the Libyan Ministry of Health's information department said that while some of the injuries were light, others were serious.

Libyan warlord and rogue commander Khalifa Haftar has hired former politicians to lobby for him in the United States, documents from the Justice Department outlined by the Wall Street Journal have revealed.

According to the filings from the Foreign Agents Registration Act dated 3 September, Haftar has agreed to pay a total of around $960,000 over a period of six months to hire the lobbying services of former politicians in Washington, DC.

10 Sep 2021; MEMO: Chairman of the Libyan High Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri said yesterday that only the elected authorities can decide how long foreign troops remain in the country.

The media office of Libya's High Council said in a statement that Al-Mishri met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in the Turkish capital, Ankara, and discussed bilateral relations as well as issues that concern both countries.

The officials discussed the presence of mercenaries in Libya and the need to remove them as soon as possible.

10 Sep 2021; MEMO: Loading operations at the Libyan oil terminals of Al-Sidr and Ras Lanuf resumed today after a stoppage, National Oil Corporation (NOC) and two engineers at the ports said.

Exports were still halted at a third terminal, Hariga, where people have blocked loading operations, an engineer there said.

TRIPOLI, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday praised the decision of the Libyan authorities to release Al-Saadi Gaddafi, son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi who was toppled and killed in 2011, along with other officials of the former regime.

06 Sep 2021; MEMO: Libya will provide financial support to young couples who wish to marry, interim Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, announced yesterday.

"I officially announce the launching of the electronic grant application service through which the administrative and financial procedures are completed within 24 hours," Dbeibah said at a joint press conference with Youth Minister Fathallah Al-Zani and members of his cabinet.

06 Sep 2021; MEMO: Libyan authorities released Saadi Gaddafi, the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, a government official said.

During the 2011 uprising, Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned in Tripoli ever since.

03 Sep 2021; MEMO: The son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi yesterday announced that he would run in the presidential election to be held on 24 December.

Afrigate quotes a source a close to supporters of the former Gaddafi regime as saying that Saif Al-Islam's announcement had come on the 52nd anniversary of the Al-Fateh Revolution – the 1969 Libyan coup carried out against the late Libyan King Muhammad Idris Al-Senussi.

TRIPOLI, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The ambassador of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Libya stressed here on Thursday the EU's support for the upcoming elections in Libya.

Jose Antonio Sabadell voiced this view during a meeting with Emad Al-Sayeh, chairman of the Libyan Higher National Commission of Elections.

30 Aug 2021; MEMO: Israeli intelligence officials met privately this month with the son of Libya's top warlord to discuss his 2021 presidential candidacy, a signal that Israel is supporting his bid, a source familiar with the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon.