Laaska News Apr.26, 2012
25 April -(RT) - Libya’s NTC has banned parties based on tribal, ethnic or religious affiliation from participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections. A new Islamist party seen by many as a leading political force is eager to refute the ban. Read more…
Laaska News Feb. 21, 2012
Libyan reporter Hala Al Misrati has denied the news of her death at the hands of Libyan rebels, stressing the good treatment of the rebels in its jail, which appeared in a video on Sunday 19 February. Read more…
Laaska News Feb. 19, 2012 “Hala al-Misrati”
A popular Libyan TV reporter, Hala al-Misrati, has been killed in a prison cell in Tripoli, the Al Arabiya television reports.
This happened on February 17, exactly a year after the beginning of an armed rebellion that led to regime change in Libya last autumn. Read more…
Laaska News Feb. 12, 2012
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On Saturday, Libya’s Transitional National Council demanded that Niger’s authorities must extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi, who is currently in Niger. Read more…
Mustafa Abdel Jalil. Photo: EPA
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), warned on Sunday the country could be heading towards a “bottomless pit” after protesters stormed a government office in Benghazi when he was inside. Read more…
Around 200 protesters frustrated with the pace of reforms in Libya have attacked the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, witnesses say. Read more…
Libya’s central bank has received the first tranche of $20 billion from the accounts of the country’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s Foreign Minister Ashour Bin Khayal said Tuesday. Read more…
New Libya, new friends: NTC welcomes Sudanese leader wanted for genocide
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The Sudanese president, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, has said that his country is ready to help Libya with its army reform.
The announcement was made during Mr. Bashir`s visit to Libya, the first one since the fall of the Gaddafi regime. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 21, 2011
The Russian President’s point man for cooperation with African nations, Mikhail Margelov, has arrived in Tripoli.
He told reporters in a telephone interview that he has a spate of meetings with the leaders of the recently formed Libyan Government and the leadership of the National Transitional Council on his calendar. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 21, 2011
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — A three-member panel tasked by the United Nations with probing human rights violations committed during the Libyan conflict has concluded the first part of its investigations at the end of a visit to Triopli, the Libyan capital, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Tuesday. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 21, 2011
TUNIS, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — The health of former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi is “seriously degraded” following a hunger strike in his prison, one of his lawyers said Tuesday. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 13, 2011
Mustafa Abdul Jalil. Photo: EPA
The leaders of Libya’s National Transitional Council, NTC, claim they will have the army and police brought to full strength in the next 100 days, and will also decentralize control.
Laaska news Dec. 13, 2011
Alexander Vatutin Dec 12, 2011 20:10 Moscow Time
Tripoli, Libya. Photo: EPA
Warnings from many experts are coming true: Libya is being pulled into a civil war. Now anti-Gaddafists are carving up power and Libya’s capital of Tripoli is already seeing clashes as the rebels are fighting for the local airport.
Laaska news Dec. 11, 2011
The leaders of the Libyan interim government have appealed to the UN asking it to release $150 billion in funds frozen when an uprising to topple Muammar Gaddafi began in February. Read more…
Laaska news Nov.23,2011
The Transitional National Council of Libya has named the new principal interim ministers of the government.
The new head of the Defense Ministry will be the head of the Military Council of the City of Zintan (southwest of Tripoli) Osama al-Dzhuvali. Read more…
Laaska news Nov.22,2011
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (C). AFP PHOTO /FEBRUARY 17
The Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, who is currently visiting Tripoli, says that Muammar Gaddafi’s son Read more…
Laaska news Nov.21,2011
ALGERIA ISP / Quryna According to New (Pro TNC), TNC director of the city Sebha, Abderahmane Salema said the rebels captured the head of security for Jamahiriya Libya, Abdellah Al Senussi. Read more…
Laaska news Nov.20,2011
Libya’s Transitional National Council says its forces have detained Muammar Gaddafi’s security and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi in the house of his sister near Sebha in southern Libya. Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 14,2011
Tripoli. Photo: AFP
Escalating clashes between militia groups near Tripoli have killed at least 13 fighters in the past four days, amid growing concerns about rivalries between the heavily armed rebels who control overlapping areas in and around the Libyan capital, The Washington Post reports. Read more…
