An AFP journalist in Derna said the central neighborhoods on both sides of the river, which normally dry up at this time of year, looked as if a steam roller had passed through, uprooting trees and buildings and destroying the port. Was throwing vehicles on the breakwater. US diplomat and former UN envoy to Libya […]
Hundreds of body bags now line the mud-stained streets of Derna, awaiting mass burial, while traumatized and grief-stricken residents search ruined buildings for their missing loved ones and bulldozers clear the streets of debris and sand. Clearing the mountains. At a ruined house, a rescue team pumped out water and found a woman’s lifeless arms […]
At least six Bangladeshis have been killed in Libya due to Hurricane Daniel and subsequent floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna. Additionally, several Bangladeshis are missing in the port city, the Bangladesh Embassy in Libya revealed on its Facebook page. The embassy said four of the six dead had been identified. They are: […]
A toll update from an emergency medical center said on Wednesday that 27 people had been killed and 106 wounded in gun battles between two major armed groups in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The center, which provides emergency services west of Tripoli, published a “provisional” toll on its Facebook page overnight. Clashes between the influential […]
Mohammed Salem, who is fasting in Tripoli, said, “The division between East and West on such a joyous occasion is hurtful and saddens me. I fear more divisions in our lives in Libya.” In Tripoli, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dabbah said people should follow the Grand Mufti’s decision to wait until Saturday. Parliament, which supports […]
Arif Ahmed, 24, of Jagannathpur area of Bhairab Upazila in Kishoreganj, had left the country two years ago in search of fortune. He made a deal with local agents to emigrate to Italy at a cost of 1.2 million taka. However, he ended up in a prison camp in Libya where he was subjected to […]
The official Twitter account of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said on Wednesday that at least 73 migrants were reported missing and dead after a shipwreck off the coast of Libya on Tuesday. The IOM said seven survivors made it to shore by boat, carrying about 80 people, which had reportedly left […]
Bangladeshi kingpin at the center of Libya’s human trafficking plight
Three women who fought injustice, persecution as good as passionate assault in Liberia as good as Yemen supposed a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize upon Saturday, job on repressed women worldwide to climb up opposite masculine supremacy. “My sisters, my daughters, my friends — find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pronounced after pciking up her […]
Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday blasted NATO’s ‘genocidal role’ in toppling Muammar Gaddafi, and decried what he described as the assassination of the late Libyan strongman. Gaddafi ‘was seriously wounded by the most modern NATO fighter-bombers that intercepted and damaged his vehicle,’ Castro wrote in an opinion column that appeared in state-run media. He […]
Libya’s interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil set a two-week target Monday for the country to have a new government and said a commission of inquiry will probe Muammar Gaddafi’s killing. ‘We have begun talks (on forming a government), and this matter will not take a month but will be finished within two weeks,’ the National […]