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Libyan Mufti, Al-Sadiq Al-Gharyani, said whoever wants to strike an agreement among the Libyan factions must be fair, adding that the mediators who are trying to stabilize Libya currently are not serious in their efforts. The Mufti described the UN envoy to Libya as biased to one party over the others and the Skhirat agreement as a conspiracy that is dragging Libya into nothingness.

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UNSMIL Head, Martin Kobler, said the Tunisian initiative, which aims at resolving Libyas crisis and bring consensus among all factions, is excellent. Kobler added, in a meeting with Tunisian Foreign Minister, that the initiative of the Tunisian President is acceptable to all Libyan parties.

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The UN-proposed governments Local Governing Minister, Badad Gansu, urged the ministrys authorities not to travel abroad unless they have obtained a permit, warning Wednesday all mayors and other authorities that violating this new decision will have legal consequences.

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Italy has sent two tons of medical aids to the Misrata Central Hospital. The aids arrived on Thursday in Misrata Airport.

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Special Deterrent Force said it had arrested a thieves gang headed by Jebril Al-Dabea (A.K.A. Jebril Abiya). SDF wrote on Facebook Wednesday that the gang conducts armed robberies in Tripoli, especially against foreign workers.

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Delegations from Zliten and Misrata agreed on Wednesday to reopen the coastal road after the withdrawal of all the armed forces of Misrata to outside Zlitens administrative borders and after they hand in the culprits to the Public Prosecution.

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The Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation provided food aids for 700 displaced families from Benghazi in cooperation with the crisis committee at the Tripoli Municipality. IHH official told Anadolu Agency that they will launch a big relief campaign in southern Libya in the coming days.

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Sabratha Municipality condemned the attack on its building on Wednesday by a brigade from the Interior Ministrys forces. It urged in a statement the citys national security department to work properly and make sure security prevails in Sabratha.

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Sources from Shahat city said the former member of the General National Congress Fawzi Al-Oqab, and his companion, Khalid Al-Mukhtar, were released on Wednesday. The two were kidnapped in the beginning of February when they were returning from the farm of the High Council of States member Abdeljalil Al-Zahi in northern Shahat.

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Ross Kemp goes to sea with the Libyan coastguard. Photograph: Sky UK

Ross Kemp loves danger the way the rest of us love suspending our disbelief in front of a long-running BBC soap. So, its no surprise that after pursuing gangs, pirates, Isis fighters, British troops in Afghanistan, illegal loggers in the Amazon, drug dealers, Tiffany and a whole lot of publicity, the actor-turned-investigative-journalist turns his attention to the deadliest migrant route in the world. The 1,000 miles of Libyan desert, a journey more dangerous than the sea, followed by the treacherous Mediterranean crossing from Tripoli to Italy in rubber boats unfit for purpose. Three thousand people make this journey every week. Twelve die each day.

In Ross Kemp: Libyas Migrant Hell (Sky1, 9pm), which should really be called Refugees Libyan Hell, he tracks the route with his usual brawn studded with the occasional fleck of emotion. This is not nuanced film-making, but somehow that feels right for an issue so huge, horrifying and urgent; a bit of plain-spoken directness feels welcome. Beginning in the Sahara, where threats include smugglers, Isis training camps, armed militias and kidnappers, Kemp intercepts a truck rammed with 22 people. We are running for our lives, one man explains. Later, he joins 30 men and women on a 350-mile desert stretch to the next handover point: a seven-hour journey travelling 70mph in 45C heat. Instantly sweating like a pig in his headscarf, Kemp declares: I dont think I could do it, thats for sure.

Yet do it he does. Why? Its only right, if we want to understand what these people go through, to experience a bit of it myself. Perhaps Kemp cannot see that a white male western film-maker joining some of the most traumatised people on the planet for a mini leg of their journey before returning to his armoured vehicle probably still wont be able to understand what they are going through.

What Kemp can do is show us the horrors he finds; his access what with being a white male western filmmaker who looks like Grant Mitchell is amazing. He meets women held in a house against their will and forced to work in what is clearly the sex trade. He enters one of Tripolis three recognised detention centres, where 490 male refugees are locked up indefinitely, beaten, starved and abandoned by every person and government in the world. He interviews a smuggler who has transported 2,000 people into Europe along a coast where smuggling now accounts for half of the local economy. And he spends a night at sea with the Libyan coastguard, getting shot at in the process (this being a Kemp documentary) and rescuing 750 people in just nine hours. Rescue, though, is the wrong word. We have seen the detention centres to which they will be taken.

In the most distressing scene, Kemp visits one such centre for women and meets a woman and two small boys rescued from the Mediterranean the previous night. Out of 120 people, only 18 survived: the boys mother was not one of them. Do these boys understand what happened to their mother yet? Kemp asks, as they look on with blank expressions. No idea, the woman replies before bursting into tears. Another woman, unable to leave her bed, tells Kemp about the baby she recently birthed inside the toilet, who died a week later. Now Im dying also, she wails. Im dying. Im dying. Im dying.

Kemps style may be about as subtle as a sledgehammer, but when he says, with tears in his eyes, that I dont care who you are or where you come from as human beings we have a duty to try and stop this suffering, its a deeply powerful plea. So yes, we now live in a world where Ross Kemp is a rare public voice of compassion and reason in the immigration debate.

Inside No 9 (BBC2, 10pm) is back for a full third series after a Christmas special and is as nasty, brutish and short as ever. Its a masterclass in how to cram a plot, fully fleshed out (and flesh-crawling) character and a dozen twists into 30 minutes. This episode has a simple premise: four men argue over whos going to pay the bill in a restaurant. Three are northern (two played by creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton), the fourth is a brash, lecherous Londoner (Philip Glenister) willing to risk the safety of his sleeping children in order to prove he has an Amex gold card; all are heinous. Cue lots of northern/southern caricature skewering, and a particularly disgusting lie about a brain tumour. Naturally, it all comes to blows, or rather a nail-biting game involving a knife and five fingers. As Archie (Shearsmith) points out: Theres always a bill. Somebody has to pay.

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Eastern Libyas military government has banned women under the age of 60 from traveling abroad alone, prompting an outcry from womens rights activists in the North African country.

Military officials in the eastern city of al-Baida imposed the ban on Thursday, starting with the citys Labraq international airport, the BBC reported. It is to be enforced on all women traveling alone via land, air and sea, and will also affect those transiting through the east of the country.

There are several rival governments competing for legitimacy in Libya, where a 2011 revolution overthrew longtime leader Muammar el-Qaddafi. The U.N.-backed Government of National Accord, led by Prime Minister Fayez Serraj, is based in Tripoli, while the eastern government is led by Libyan Chief of Staff Abdel-Razek al-Nadhouri and overseen by Khalifa Haftar, an influential military general. A third administration calling itself the National Salvation government has also recently claimed to have taken control of several of the U.N.-backed governments ministries in Tripoli.

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The director and co-founder of the Libyan Womens Platform for Peace, Zahra Langhi, tells Newsweek that the ban is appalling and that she has received reports of high-ranking women fleeing the country through unofficial routes.

Weve lost many of our friends who stood against Islamist militias and radical Salafiswe lost many of our friends, [but] not to get this in return, says Langhi, speaking via telephone from Aswan, Egypt. We believe in the importance of having an inclusive democracy, gender equality, [and] a civil state, but this is what we are getting.

Libyan women take part in a celebration marking the sixth anniversary of the Libyan revolution, which toppled strongman Muammar el-Qaddafi, at the Martyrs' Square in the capital Tripoli, on February 17. The military authority in eastern Libya has imposed a ban on women under the age of 60 traveling abroad alone without a guardian. MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty

One of Langhis close friends, theprominent Libyan womens rights activist, Salwa Bugaighis, was assassinated in Benghazi in 2014 by unknown assailants on the day of the countrys general election. Langhi says she fled the country in 2014.

Langhi says the ban is evidence of the rise of so-called quietist Salafism in eastern Libya. Salafism is an ultra conservative form of Islam, often accompanied by adherence to a strict moral code. Quietist Salafism refers to a form of the religion that eschews political engagement, according to the Brookings Institution.

In an interview on Libyan television, al-Naduri claimed that the ban was a national security measure and was not motivated by politics or religious ideology. Al-Naduri said that women claiming to represent civil society groups were often used by foreign intelligence for espionage.

The ban has prompted criticism and mockery online from activists, while the U.N. mission in Libya tweeted that freedom of movement was a basic human right of all people. The ban has also prompted a satirical version of Spanish musician Enrique Iglesiass song Hero. The Libyan version is titled, I can be your Mahram baby. Mahram is an Arabic, religious term referring to a male guardian.

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