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Morocco will host a meeting of the Libyan steering committee to prepare for elections on which hopes are pinned to break the deadlock that left the oil-rich and war-torn country politically divided.

The news was reported by Italys Nova news agency citing Libyan House of Representative spokesman Abdullah Belhaq.

He said views are converging between the rivals after they agreed on mechanisms to make progress towards elections.

A political process to resolve more than a decade of conflict in Libya has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over the eligibility of major candidates.

The U.N.-backed government in the capital of Tripoli has very loose control over about a third of the country. To the east, Libya is controlled by a renegade general leading what they have called the Libyan National Army, which has tried and failed to topple the government in Tripoli.

Morocco has by the past hosted meetings between Libyan rivals including the Skhirate agreement which still serves as a reference for a political and peaceful settlement of the crisis in Libya.

Libya has descended into chaos since 2011 as the country is de-factor divided between a Tripoli-based government in the west and vast swathes of the east under the control of renegade general Khalifa Haftar.

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of Libya's Government of National Unity, has ordered an investigation into the death of a teenage basketball fan

The prime minister of Libya's Government of National Unity has ordered an investigation after the death of a teenage basketball fan shot in the head at a top-flight match in Tripoli.

Abdul Mohimen Al-Falah was fatally injured on Monday in a disturbance outside the arena following the Libyan Basketball League play-off between Al Ittihad and Al Ahly Benghazi.

Local reports have suggested armed security were involved in trying to control the violence.

The 19-year-old was taken to Tunisia for treatment but died on Thursday.

His funeral is expected to take place on Saturday while fellow Al Ittihad supporters are set to gather at the stadium to pay their own respects.

A promising footballer, Al-Falah played for the youth team of second division Al Azima.

The high-profile nature of the death has led prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to instruct the country's interior ministry to take responsibility for finding those responsible, while the Libyan Olympic Committee has stressed the need for more professional security forces at major sports events.

Despite the country's ongoing security crisis, which has seen a proliferation of firearms, the Libyan Basketball Federation is one of the few sports organisations that allows spectators to attend games.

The federation has now postponed all fixtures until next week while Al Ittihad used social media to announce the suspension of all club activities for three days.

The team's supporters have been using the slogan "Keep your weapons away from our stadiums and our youth" in a bid to pressure the authorities to take such incidents more seriously.

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In February 2011, civil war broke out in Libya when opposition forces in the east of the country tried to overthrow dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi.

A few weeks later, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution establishing a no-fly zone over Libya and allowed the use of "all necessary means" to protect civilians.

NATO followed up by sending fighter jets, which bombed infrastructure and attacked Libyan government forces. Norway accounted for a tenth of the NATO effort, dropping close to 600 bombs over the country during the spring and summer of 2011.

In the run up to the UN resolution, secret Norwegian mediation efforts took place to try to end the conflict. This PRIO public seminar will feature new insights into what went on behind the scenes during these mediation attempts. The discussion will be based on revelations from a new book by the former diplomat and state secretary, Henrik Thune, called Strengt fortrolig [Strictly Confidential].

In 2011, Henrik Thune, who was then a Project Manager in the secretariat of Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stre, was part of a small group of Norwegians who engaged in diplomatic negotiations to secretly try and stop the conflict between Gaddafi's regime and opposition forces.

Join us at PRIO for a discussion on new insights into global politics and secret diplomacy that have not been publicly discussed before in the Norwegian context.

Henrik Thune is the keynote speaker. Thune is a former state secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also an author, foreign policy researcher and former director at the NOREF center for international conflict resolution. He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for three periods, first as a senior adviser between 2006 and 2008, then as project manager between 2010 and 2012, and finally as state secretary for Anniken Huitfeldt from 2021 to 2022.

Ada Elisabeth Nissen is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

Henrik Urdal is the Director of PRIO.

Kristian Harpviken is a Research Professor at PRIO and will moderate the discussion.

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The Spanish embassy in Tripoli inaugurated Thursday night the Spanish Gastronomy Course that will take place in Tripoli over the next three days. Taught by the renowned Spanish chef Pedro Muagorri, in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy and Repsol, the course will introduce Spanish gastronomy in Libya to 14 local chefs.

Day ones menu was served to about 24 invited guests (including Libya Herald) where guest local chefs helped prepare such renowned Spanish dishes as gazpacho, gilda from San Sebastian and various fish dishes.

Growing cultural events by embassiesThe event follows the positive cultural contributions by various embassies in Tripoli such as the Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World by the Italian embassy in December 2022.

But it also continues the Spanish embassys enrichment of cultural life in Libya through the hosting of Flamenco dancers and the Spanish chamber music concert by Concerto Mlaga, an Andalusian ensemble last December, and the Spanish Film Festival that started last year and ended last week.

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Nigerians living in Libya have called on the Nigerian government to rescue them from the atrocities of the police in the North African country.

According to them, the Libyan police have arrested and imprisoned thousands of Nigerians in the country.

They alleged that over 100 others were dumped in a desert area called Agadez, without food or water.

Agadez is 900km North West from the capital of Niger, Niamey and 700km South from the Libyan border.

One of the sources currently trapped in Libya told SaharaReporters that there is panic among the immigrant population in the country as the police go from house to house, searching and arresting Nigerians, including pregnant women and children whom they throw into prison for no reason.

According to the source, since the end of April 2023, the Libyan police have been tougher on non-Libyans.

Libya is hot. They pack our Nigerian girls and people from other countries. They pack them in prison and now the prison is full. I heard that they packed them to a place called Oshofana, and that place, they always sell people.

There is nowhere to stay now. Everything is hot for everybody. Please, we beg our Nigerian government to please come and help us in this situation because I heard that other people, their governments have been coming to evacuate them.

Everything is hot. They are going from house to house to carry people. Even where I am, it is just because security is tight and just the help of God, not really because of the security. They are doing everything to us.

We are passing through a lot. They are packing both men and women, including pregnant women and children. Any black person, they pack them. Exactly why they are doing it is what we dont know.

They reduced salaries and house rent is higher. They are just making things difficult for us and we do not know exactly what we did. They are not even allowing us to get jobs or even go out because police are everywhere. To bail anyone in prison is N500,000 in Nigerian Naira equivalent, and yet, they dont even release some, the source said.

According to another source, those that have been put in prison are being starved.

The source said the Libyan authorities accused Nigerians and other black Africans of destroying their country by engaging in drug trafficking, sale of alcohol, stealing and causing food scarcity.

The source also said that the Libyan authorities said that the high rate of migrants in the country has led to food inflation.

According to the source, the authorities accuse migrants of not paying taxes while moving all the money they make to their home countries.

Therefore, the country no longer wants us, the source added.

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