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Fighting over Libya’s oil ports – The Economist

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Fighting over Libya's oil ports - The Economist

140 Gambians Stranded in Libya Return Home – Face2Face Africa

The flight to Banjul was the IOM Libyas first chartered flight to The Gambia, and all 140 returnees on board were male. Photo Credit: IOM

Gambian nationals stranded in Libya recently returned home aboard an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) chartered flight.

Gambian Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fattyannounced that 140 Gambians were voluntarily repatriated to Banjul March 7th, following an appeal they made to the government, according to the Post.

The minister, who spoke to reporters during a press conference at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, added that another 1,000 Gambian youths headed for Europe through the Mediterranean Sea are currently stranded in Libya.

We have been negotiating with the International Organization for Migration as we have received concerns on the request of our citizens in Libya who embarked on irregular migration, which we call the back way.

Many of them want to come home. They are victims of crime and they have no money, no food, and no proper shelter, and their living condition is abominable. The responsibility of the government is to look after its citizens, whether they are at home or abroad.

When I got in to the picture, I accelerated negotiations with IOM in order to repatriate those Gambians who are stranded in Libya voluntarily.

We have registered 460 Gambians in Libya who are living in abominable conditions and would like to return home; they can no longer proceed.

Among these 460, I am glad to report that 140 peoplereturned around 1 a.m. [Friday] to Banjul.

The flight to Banjul was the IOM Libyas first chartered flight to the Gambia, and all 140 returnees on board were male. They included three unaccompanied minors and two passengers who received medical assistance but were deemed fit to travel without medical escort.

The IOM said on its website that 12 of the repatriated migrants are entitled to receive IOMs reintegration assistance in the Gambia.

One of them, a 35-year-old electrical engineer simply identified as Peter, said that his little daughter and pregnant wife would be expecting him to return home with gifts, but he would have to go back to them empty handed.

Peter admitted that he initially vowed that he would rather die than return empty handed, but he says with the unpleasant experiences he suffered in Libya, he knew it was better to work in my country and die there.

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140 Gambians Stranded in Libya Return Home - Face2Face Africa

The Libyan student who sued Trump and won – Washington Post

When Zakaria Hagig decided to leave his war-torn homeland for college in Colorado, he never dreamed that hed one day be suing the president of the United States. But when President Trump issued his Jan. 27 executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the United States, Hagig realized that he had to act. I never thought that such a thing would happen, he told me. For a long time all I knew about the U.S. was that they have freedom of religion, freedom of belief. Was this really the U.S. that theyd told me about?

The revised version of Trumps executive order was supposed to take effect Thursday stripped of some of its worst excesses, but still sufficiently problematic for it to be blocked yet again by the federal courts. The credit for that goes to the many Americans who pushed back against the original ban, from the demonstrators who flooded into airports in support of those affected to the federal judges who issued formal challenges to Trumps order. But the 24-year-old Hagig has also played his part a particularly remarkable one, considering that he hails from Libya, one of the countries targeted by the ban.

For a few years after the fall of dictator Moammar Gaddafi, Hagig kept plugging away with his studies in computer science at a local university. But by 2014, as the civil war that followed Gaddafis removal was entering its third year, Hagig began to lose heart. His father, an engineer, had studied overseas abroad earlier, and the family decided that it was time for Hagig to try his luck elsewhere. Having enrolled in an English-language-study program in Denver, he applied for a U.S. student visa at an American consulate in Europe during a visit there. (The United States hasnt issued visas in Libya for several years now because of the ongoing war.)

So that was how, equipped with a student visa, Hagig arrived in Colorado in summer 2014. After finishing his English course, he enrolled in the business program at the Community College of Denver. His plan was to complete his degree there, then move on to further study at a four-year college.

But then his dreams ran afoul of the presidential travel ban. Hagig was bewildered. According to Trumps executive order, Hagig despite holding a perfectly valid student visa wouldnt be able to return home to visit his family during the period covered by the ban without the risk of being blocked from returning. He was lucky enough to be in Colorado when the ban took effect, but he was aware that many other visa holders from the seven targeted countries would be stranded in their homelands for the period it covered.

That was when one of his American friends and neighbors, an attorney and PhD candidate, Alan Kennedy-Shaffer, decided to lend a hand. He and I hadnt talked about immigration issues until the executive order came out, said Kennedy-Shaffer. The order frightened the entire community here in Colorado.

As he and Hagig discussed the issue, they realized that many of the foreigners living in the area were understandably reluctant to mount a court challenge to the president. I spoke with Alan, and he told me about my right, said Hagig. I decided to take the step not just for myself but for other people affected by the order above all, he said, the thousands of foreign students included in its scope. I personally know people who tried to travel back to their home countries because they were afraid. And people who were already traveling got stuck in the airport. Some people lost weeks in school, some even lost their educations.

On Jan. 31, Kennedy-Shaffer and a former Colorado state senator, Morgan Carroll, filed Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-289 on Hagigs behalf against Trump and several federal agencies in U.S. District Court in Denver. Their argument: The travel ban violated fundamental constitutional principles (specifically, Hagigs rights to due process and freedom from religious discrimination). And yes, they did the work pro bono, so Hagig didnt have to pay a cent.

How did it feel to take on the worlds most powerful man in a high-profile case? It was a hard feeling, Im not going to lie, Hagig recalled (in his impeccable American English). But when I looked at the bigger picture, that made me feel more comfortable. Support from his family and friends helped a lot, he said; so, too, did the images of American protesters fighting back. But above all he was driven by the conviction that big issues were at stake. We were trying so hard to prove that no ones above the law, and that human rights are truly universal, he said.

Then came a series of legal decisions by the federal courts blocking the travel ban on a variety of legal grounds. The White House was forced to go back to the drawing board, finally issuing a new version of the ban that exempted visa holders like Hagig (as well as green-card holders and dual citizens) from its strictures. The Justice Department filed an official response to the lawsuit informing Hagig that he would no longer be affected by the new executive order (which still imposes travel restrictions on visitors from six of the original countries, with the exception of Iraq).

Handling the publicity from the case, which was been widely covered in Colorado (less so nationally), has involved a delicate balancing act for Hagig. Libya, where armed militias still range freely, is a volatile place, and Hagig has worked hard to keep his personal details private to prevent potential retaliation against his family. He recalls seeing comments by Libyan Facebook users who, he said, worried about the repercussions of suing the president of the United States. Why are you suing the president? they said. Youll get deported. Youll get kicked out.

Needless to say, the fact that none of that has happened confirms Hagigs faith in American principles. It feels amazing. It feels like we do have a voice. When theres something wrong we can fight to get our rights back. The law is the law. Its an amazing feeling that our voice was heard.

Now hes keen to continue his education, working his way toward a business degree that he can one day put to good use back in his native country. In the meantime, there might be a thing or two that some jaded Americans could learn from his example. In the eyes of this Libyan, our institutions, it turns out, are entirely worth fighting for.

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Third day of clashes in Libya – eNCA

Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) man a checkpoint in the Hay al-Andalus neighbourhood of Tripoli on March 14, 2017, following clashes between rival armed groups. Photo: Mahmud Turkia AFP

TRIPOLI Artillery exchanges rocked the Libyan capital for a third day on Wednesday after forces loyal to the UN-backed government stormed the headquarters of a rival militia overnight, witnesses said.

Libya has experienced years of violence and lawlessness since the Nato-backed ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with rival parliaments and governments trading barbs and militias fighting over territory and the country's vast oil wealth.

Militia loyal to former prime minister Khalifa Ghweil, whose administration was replaced by the UN-backed government last year, have stepped up a campaign of defiance against its authority.

The militia, mainly drawn from Ghweil's hometown, third city Misrata, were putting up fierce resistance in their base in the Guest Palace, a complex of luxury villas in the city centre.

A rocket hit the Al-Khadhra Hospital without causing any casualties, a medic said.

READ: Libya strongman seizes oil terminals: spokesman

Overnight, gunmen stormed the headquarters of Al-Nabaa television, a privately owned channel known for its Islamist leanings, witnesses said.

The channel remained off the air on Wednesday.

The fighting brought life in the capital to a standstill with schools and shops closed.

It came despite an appeal from UN Libya envoy Martin Kobler on Tuesday for an "immediate ceasefire".

"Civilians at grave risk in ongoing clashes," Kobler said on Twitter.

READ: Libya in ruins four years after Gaddafi's death

The clashes erupted in the neighbourhoods of Hay al-Andalus and Gargaresh on Monday evening, prompting the government to deploy tanks.

They came as heavy fighting rocked the east of Libya where forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar announced their recapture of two key oil ports on Tuesday.

Haftar's forces, which do not recognise the UN-backed government, mounted a day-long assault by land, sea and air to retake the ports of Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra, after they were seized by a rival, Islamist-led force earlier this month.

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Three strikes hit vehicles and targets in the area around the al-Sidra and Ras Lanuf terminals, where at least nine soldiers were killed.

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The Tripoli government denied any involvement in the latest offensive, condemning it as a 'military escalation'.

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Fighting in the neighbourhood first broke out last Thursday when a man from Wershefana, said to be supportive of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, was caught stealing a car.

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Charred vehicles in Tripoli, following exchanges of rocket and artillery fire in the capital. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

The worst fighting of Libyas three-year civil war has erupted, with battles raging for control of Tripoli and key oil ports, raising the temperature on US claims of increasing Russian influence in the country.

In eastern Libya, the army of the national parliament, led by strongman Khalifa Haftar, has recaptured two oil ports, Sidra and Ras Lanuf, from Islamist militias that seized them this month.

Meanwhile Tripoli is shuddering under three days of violence between rival militias battling with tanks and artillery. The fighting has intensified a diplomatic spat between Moscow and Washington over claims by unnamed US and Egyptian officials that Russia has deployed special forces and drones to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya.

Russia and Egypt have denied the claims, but US senator Lindsey Graham called last week for Moscows growing Libya footprint to be put on the radar screen of Donald Trumps secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.

While Russia recognises Libyas elected parliament in the eastern town of Tobruk, the US and most western powers back a rival, unelected government of national accord (GNA) in Tripoli which they hope can unify the country.

In January Moscow invited Haftar for a full dress parade aboard its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, as it returned from Syria, while Russias state-owned oil giant Rosneft has announced plans for major new investments in Libya.

Visiting Moscow this week seeking military aid, the parliaments president, Agila Saleh, told the RIA Novosti news agency: We asked the Russian government to help us with training the soldiers in our armed forces and the repair of military equipment.

Analysts say Russias growing involvement in Libya has come as the US is distracted by crises elsewhere in the world. As in Syria, Russias interest [in Libya] is opportunistic, said Geoff Porter, the director of US-based North Africa Risk Consulting. Moscow saw an opening that was afforded to it by Washingtons lack of leadership.

No reliable casualty figures have yet been reported from the violence of recent days in Tripoli, with militias battling each other in western and central districts. Flights were suspended from the city centre airport as stray rockets hit buildings across the city.

There are explosions everywhere you can never know when clashes will take place, one resident, who asked not be be named, emailed from the city. Im scared of going out and getting stuck in crossfire.

The UN envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, tweeted:

Western powers are struggling to shore up support for the GNA, which was created by a UN-chaired commission and is intended to share power between parliament and groups including a militia coalition, Libya Dawn, that controls Tripoli.

But parliament is divided and has yet to accept the GNA, while it operates its own government in the east complete with a separate currency.

Tobruks position has been strengthened because the capture of the oil ports gives it control of the Sirte basin, home to the bulk of Libyas oil wealth.

Nor has the GNA succeeded in wooing Libya Dawn, whose militias are continuing to battle in Tripoli, some for the GNA, others for yet another would-be administration, the Salvation Government. Wednesdays fighting saw pro-GNA militias storm the Salvation Government compound at the luxury Rixos hotel.

Last month the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, called for Haftar to be included in the GNA, but some diplomats fear that if that happened, Libya Dawn would reject it, leaving the country still locked in war-torn stalemate.

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