Mar 10 Michel Cousins

UN must impose no fly-zone over oil basin says General Suleiman Al-Obeidi

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 10 March 2017:A top Libyan general has called for the UN to impose a no-fly zone over the oil crescent as Khalifa Haft...

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Aug 20 Michel Cousins

Sudanese pro-Ansar mercenaries arrive in Kufra?

By Jamal Adel.Kufra, 20 August 2014:While Sudanese have been leaving Libya via Kufra, there are widespread reports today in the south-eastern town tha...

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Oct 22 Michel Cousins

Reports of Chadian assassins surprise Benghazi

By Libya Herald staff.Benghazi, 22 October:There has been widespread amazement at the announcement last night by the city’s Joint Operations Room spok...

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Aug 14 thomwestcott

Ukrainian engineers’ hard labour sentences cancelled

By Tom Westcott.Tripoli, 14 August 2013:Nineteen Ukrainians sentenced to ten years’ hard labour after being found guilty of working as Qaddafi mercena...

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Ukraine, Russia and Belarus to appeal mercenary convictions
Jun 6 George Grant

Ukraine, Russia and Belarus to appeal mercenary convictions

By George Grant.Tripoli, 6 June 2012:The governments of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are to appeal the conviction of 24 of their nationals imprisoned f...

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Ukrainians sentenced to 10 years hard labour
Jun 4 Michel Cousins

Ukrainians sentenced to 10 years hard labour

Convicted Ukrainians leaving court todayTripoli, 4 June:Nineteen Ukrainians as well as three Belarusians and a Russian accused of being Qaddafi mercen...

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May 18 George Grant

UN to investigate use of mercenaries, private military companies, in Libya

Geneva, 18 May: The United Nations is to send a fact-finding mission next week to investigate allegations of the use of mercenaries in last year's con...

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Apr 12 Michel Cousins

Ukraine insists its citizens are innocent

By Ashraf Abdul WahabTripoli, April 12The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the 20 Ukrainian citizens being tried in Libya on charges of being merc...

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Apr 9 Michel Cousins

Ukrainians' trial confirmed

Tripoli, April 9A spokesman for the Army confirmed that 20 Ukraine nationals were put on trial today before a Libyan military court on charges of work...

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Apr 6 Michel Cousins

Ukrainians charged with helping Qaddafi forces

Tripoli, April 6Contrary to reports put out earlier this week by the press in Ukraine that some 23 of its citizens accused of being Qaddafi mercenarie...

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