| 5,640,958 |
28.54445 |
17.55646 |
Libya |
|
Production at two Libyan oilfields has been disrupted by fresh clashes between armed men and a group belonging to the Libyan army, Al-Jazeera reported quoting a military official on 21 March. The spokesman for Libya's Border Guard said operations at Zuwaytina [also known as Zueitina] and Al-Ghani oilfields, southeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, came to a halt due to the clashes and members of staff were taken to a safe place. |
| 5,640,962 |
27.03766 |
14.42832 |
Libya |
|
Inmates in a prison in the oasis city of Sebha rioted against what they considered as bad prison conditions, setting fire to their cells, and breaking up furniture and the doors to their cells. Nearly 50 inmates escaped the prison, and authorities said that one of the fleeing prisoners was shot dead. |
| 5,640,967 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
On 26 March, Miftah Emhamed Mohamed al-Etiwesh, a 45 year-old man, was found dead in the Abu Salim neighborhood in Tripoli. An autopsy was carried out on his body on the same day at the hospital. The deceased was last seen in a detention facility under the authority of the SSC Tripoli Branch in Abu Salim. |
| 5,640,972 |
32.37535 |
15.09254 |
Libya |
|
On 27 March, Abdelhakim Belaid al-Tajuri, a 46 year-old man, died on his way to the hospital in Misrata. UNSMIL reportedly received information indicating that the Combating Crime Department handed Abdelhakim al-Tajuri over to an armed brigade in Misrata who tortured him. |
| 5,640,975 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
A 15th century Sufi leader's tomb in in the eastern suburb of Tajura in Tripoli was destroyed on Thursday in a triple bombing by unknown assailants, a security source said. |
| 5,640,979 |
32.11766 |
20.12928 |
Libya |
|
Three female British activists of Pakistani origin were raped by Libyan pro-government militiamen in the eastern city of Benghazi, after joining an aid convoy bound for Gaza to break an Israeli blockade, officials from several countries confirmed on Friday. IHH, a Turkish humanitarian relief organization mediated the release of the kidnapped women and men after they were contacted by the convoy's organizers and pled for help. |
| 5,640,983 |
27.03766 |
14.42832 |
Libya |
|
A Libyan military spokesman says more than 150 gunmen have attacked an air base in the country's southern desert, killing two government troops. Saad al-Orfi says the attack early Saturday targeted a military air base about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of the city of Sabha. He says the assailants were heavily armed and clashed with government forces stationed at the base.A colonel and a soldier were killed in the fighting, and two more troops were also wounded. |
| 5,640,986 |
32.76704 |
22.63669 |
Libya |
|
In other security news Saturday, a bomb blast damaged a court in Derna. No casualties were reported. |
| 5,640,989 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Members of the Libyan Interior Ministry's Supreme Security Committee (SSC) on Sunday (March 31st) besieged the justice ministry in Tripoli. The protestors demanded Minister Salah Marghani's resignation after his recent televised remarks where he called some armed groups illegitimate and their prisons illegal. He added that the SSC militias had stormed the building in protest at government plans to hand the Metiga airbase prison to the justice ministry. |
| 5,640,993 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Gunmen posing as security personnel kidnapped a top aide of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, just hours after the premier revealed members of his government had received death threats, a cabinet source told AFP on Monday |
