December 2012 Prime Minister Ali Zeidan arrived in Sudan today where he met President Omer Al-Bashir and First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha. Accompanying Zeidan is the minister of international cooperation and acting foreign minister, Abdel Aziz, army chief of staff Major General Yousef Mangoush and intelligence chief Salem Hassi. In their meeting Zeidan and Bashir discussed cooperation between [ Read More ]
December 2012 Libya has reiterated its call for the extradition of the former dictator Gaddaf’is second son, Saadi from Niger, which has granted him asylum since September last year on so-called humanitarian grounds.” A Libyan government statement issued after a visit to Niamey by Libyan Prime Minister Dr Ali Zidan noted “the threat posed by the presence in Niger of [ Read More ]
December 2012 Sami al-Saadi, wife and four children were secretly flown from Hong Kong to Tripoli where he was tortured by Gaddafi police. Ministers have agree to pay more than £2m to the family of a prominent Libyan dissident abducted with the help of MI6 and secretly flown to Tripoli where he was tortured by the security police of the former dictator Muammar [ Read More ]
December 2012 The Sabratha branch of the Libyan Red Crescent kicked off a relief campaign for Syrian refugees on Tuesday evening. The initiative, which launched under the slogan “they are entitled to live, just as they are entitled to relief” aims to raise money for the several thousand Syrians who have come to Libya, fleeing the violence in their own [ Read More ]
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