UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appointed Hanna Serwaa Tetteh as special representative for Libya and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Tetteh will succeed Abdoulaye Bathily, who served in the role until May 2024.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday announced the appointment of a new envoy to Libya, ending a nine-month search amid increasing chaos in the oil-rich North African nation. The appointment of Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as special envoy follows the departure of Senegal's Abdoulaye Bathily in April last year.

The United Nations chief announced Friday he has appointed Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as the global body's new envoy to Libya, replacing Senegal's Abdoulaye Bathily who stepped down last April.

Libya sees Türkiye as a strategic partner in the energy sector and is keen to enhance cooperation in both traditional and renewable energy

The fact of the matter is, though, the Russo-Iranian alliance in the Middle East has been dealt a serious blow with the loss of Assad’s regime in Syria. That is now being made all the more evident by the fact that the new Turkish-backed Islamist government in Damascus,

Hanaa, a Sudanese woman who works gathering plastic bottles from bins to feed her children, says she was abducted in western Libya and taken to a forest and raped at gunpoint by a group of men. The next day her attackers took her to a facility run by the state-funded Stability Support Authority (SSA). Nobody told Hanaa why she had been detained.

Sudanese women fleeing war in their country describe sexual attacks in "rape rooms" in Libya.

Italian media reports and a Libyan official say police in Turin have arrested a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.

Libya needs between $3 billion and $4 billion to reach an oil production rate of 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd), the acting oil and gas minister, Khalifa Abdulsadek, told Reuters on Saturday, adding that a new license bidding round is expected to be approved by the cabinet before the end of January.

Greek authorities say more than 170 migrants have been picked up from rickety boats in recent days with most found off the southern tip of the country in a route that appears to be increasingly used by traffickers.

Libya plans to boost its oil refining capacity and production, while fellow OPEC member Kuwait also aims to significantly increase its oil output.