Africa Libya Libyan authorities have freed 104 migrant from a human trafficking network in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, the Attorney General’s Office announced; five suspects were arrested, accused of illegal detention and torture to extort ransom from families
Africa Libya A humanitarian convoy of a hundred cars and volunteers en route to break Gaza's siege was welcomed in Tripoli, where locals offered food, and mistreated in Sirte, reports say: another sign of the east-west split in the administration in Libya
Africa Libya 58 bodies, 35 unidentified, have been found in a mortuary refrigerator at a Tripoli hospital under the control of the militia involved in city clashes last week; the deaths had not been reported to the UN-backed authorities controlling western Libya
Africa Libya A fossilized whale skeleton around five million years old, dating back to the Miocene epoch - one of the rarest geological discoveries in Qasr Al-Sahabi area - will be restored by the Benghazi Department of Antiquities and permanently displayed
Africa Libya The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO warned of the arrival of locust swarms in western Libya, central Algeria and southern Tunisia, noting the possibility of spring breeding following the February rains