UNSMIL calls for immediate release of political activist Mahdi Abdelati – arrested in Misrata
Mar 26 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL calls for immediate release of political activist Mahdi Abdelati – arrested in Misrata

UNSMIL called for the immediate release of Mr. Mahdi Abdelati, a political activist who was reportedly arbitrarily detained in Misrata on 18 March by...

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Libyan Customs foil attempt to smuggle €140,000 at Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport
Feb 11 Sami Zaptia

Libyan Customs foil attempt to smuggle €140,000 at Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport

The Libyan Customs Authority announced today that it had foiled an attempt to smuggle €140,000 out of the country in foreign currency in violation of...

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Customs Authority foils attempt to smuggle over € 490,000 through Misrata airport
Dec 31 Sami Zaptia

Customs Authority foils attempt to smuggle over € 490,000 through Misrata airport

The Libyan Customs Authority reported yesterday that, in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency, it had foiled an attempt on the same day to sm...

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CBL Governor urges executive authorities to take measures to close unlicensed foreign exchange bureaux, prohibit imports outside the banking system
Dec 19 Sami Zaptia

CBL Governor urges executive authorities to take measures to close unlicensed foreign exchange bureaux, prohibit imports outside the banking system

The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Naji Issa, has sent several letters, widely leaked today to Arabic-language Libyan media, to the Tripoli ba...

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Gang attempting to seize LD 135 million from a Libyan Investment and Development Fund company detained
Oct 23 Sami Zaptia

Gang attempting to seize LD 135 million from a Libyan Investment and Development Fund company detained

The Attorney General’s Office reported last Tuesday (21 October) that the investigating authority ordered the detention of defendants accused of attem...

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Customs Authority and Internal Security Agency foil attempt to smuggle over € 1 million through Mitiga airport
Sep 18 Sami Zaptia

Customs Authority and Internal Security Agency foil attempt to smuggle over € 1 million through Mitiga airport

The Libyan Customs Authority reported today that a task force at its Mitiga Airport Customs Centre, in coordination with the Internal Security Agency,...

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Presidency Council decrees unconditional ceasefire, freezes all Aldabaiba Tripoli government’s recent military/security decrees
May 15 Sami Zaptia

Presidency Council decrees unconditional ceasefire, freezes all Aldabaiba Tripoli government’s recent military/security decrees

The Libyan Presidency Council issued decree 2/2025 yesterday in its role as Supreme Head of the Armed Forces: Orders a comprehensive ceasefire in al...

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The time of parallel security services is over, there is no place in Libya except for regular institutions of the army and police: Aldabaiba
May 14 Sami Zaptia

The time of parallel security services is over, there is no place in Libya except for regular institutions of the army and police: Aldabaiba

‎In the aftermath of Monday’s still-to-be-confirmed, but widely accepted, killing of the Support and Stability Apparatus (SSA) militia leader, Abdelgh...

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Tripoli PM Aldabaiba decrees reorganisation of some security units following Ghnewa Kikly’s reported killing
May 14 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli PM Aldabaiba decrees reorganisation of some security units following Ghnewa Kikly’s reported killing

‎Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba issued a package of decrees that he described as "decisive within the measures to impose th...

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Tripoli PM Aldabaiba appoints Mustafa Al-Wahishi as the new head of the Internal Security Agency
May 14 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli PM Aldabaiba appoints Mustafa Al-Wahishi as the new head of the Internal Security Agency

Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Alhamid Aldabaiba announced the appointment of Mustafa Ali Al-Wahishi yesterday as the new head of the Inter...

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