9News Nigeria current news and updates on the African country of Libya.
Report Says Gaddafi was tortured, sodomised and fatally shot by NATO-backed rebels in October 2011, with the incident captured on video and broadcast by media Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is concerned about Libya’s stability because issues affecting the North African nation greatly impact the Lake Chad Basin, which in Read more
Top military figure loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar killed in the eastern city of Benghazi by unidentified attackers. Mahmoud al-Werfalli, a senior Libyan Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), which is internationally recognised but controls only the western part of the country, announced a Read more
Sources have told the BBC that fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates might have launched the precision missile, which killed nine Nigerians and 44 Read more
PALERMO, Italy (9News Nigeria) – Italian prosecutors on Monday ordered the arrest of three people suspected of torturing migrants in a detention centre in north-west Read more
BENGHAZI, Libya (9News Nigeria) – A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three U.N. staff members and two other mission Read more
TRIPOLI (9News Nigeria) – Eastern forces and troops loyal to the government in Tripoli fought on the outskirts of Libya’s capital on Wednesday as the Read more
Last night, 141 Nigerians including 11 pregnant women voluntarily returned from Libya to Nigeria with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Read more
A new shipwreck off the Libyan coast has left 63 people missing in the latest disaster to hit migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean. The Read more
A Nigerian returnee said she was gang raped while in Libya and is now pregnant. The victim, Titi was assisted to return to Nigeria with Read more
A batch of 218 Nigerians, which included seven pregnant women on Tuesday, 8th of May 2018 voluntarily returned from the volatile North African country of Read more
Five African migrants have been arrested in Libya for turning a rented house to a brothel for migrants. The illegal migrants, three men and two Read more
Endurance Omeyo, one of the returnees from Libya brought back to the country on Tuesday has lamented that though he embarked on the journey with Read more
Some Nigerian returnees from Libya have recounted how they were sold as slaves in the country, with some claiming that their fellow countrymen were actively Read more
A group of UN human rights experts has strongly condemned Libya’s slave trade amid reports that hundreds of African refugees are being bought and sold Read more
A Nigerian returnee from Libya has revealed that 25 compatriots, ferried from Nigeria to Libya by a trafficker identified as Charles, perished in the Sahara Read more
Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, says the recent report on sales of African migrants in Libya is a mockery of the African solidarity. Akufo-Addo, in a Read more
Human rights groups in Libya have accused the United Arab Emirates of committing war crimes in the country, including killing hundreds of civilians. The rights Read more
Libya’s coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants on Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to slow Read more
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar during a visit to Benghazi on Thursday and urged him to stick to a ceasefire Read more
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta chastises newly elected members of parliament on Thursday for resisting modest cuts to their salaries and perks, worth more than $10,000 a Read more
Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released after being abducted during a visit to the capital, Tripoli, and held for nine days by Read more
Royal Dutch Shell has lifted a cargo of 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Libya’s Zueitina port, its first from the war-torn north African country Read more
Security forces in eastern Libya said on Thursday they had arrested the commander of an elite forces unit who is sought by the International Criminal Read more
A group of 20 suspected fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also know as ISIS) group have been executed by Read more
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Leader, Nnamdi Kanu, offered prayers at the historic Nri forest which is revered as the “forest of life” by Read more
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – People smugglers and criminal gangs in Libya are using social media to broadcast the abuse and violence Read more
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday called for the arrest and surrender of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted Read more
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, second son of the late deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, is said to have been freed under an amnesty, in a Read more
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