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Tunisian union blames Hafter over disappearance of Tunisian journalists

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The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) has blamed the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, for the failure to discover what happened to Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari who disappeared three years ago near Ajdabiya. The SNJT claim that the area where they vanished was under Haftar’s control at the time and that subsequently those linked to the LNA did nothing to help solve the mystery.While the union has not actually blamed Hafter and the LNA for the abductions, it denounced what it called the “suspicious silence” of all the Libyan parties “who are called upon to show good faith in handling this issue”. Although there have been some allegations that the abductors were Salafists linked to Hafter, it is generally believed that the two were captured by Islamists linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS), or at least passed on to them.

 

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Fresh fighting in Gasr Ben Ghashir

Fighting erupted this evening near Gasr Ben Ghashir, next to Tripoli International Airport, between units mainly belonging to Tripoli strongman

Zawia refinery reported operating normally again after attack by militia

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Zawia refinery and its pumping station were said to be back to normal after an attack yesterday by an armed Group. According to the National Oil Corporation, the group forced their way into the refinery’s pumping control early yesterday afternoon and compelled staff to stop pumping fuel through the pipeline to the Tripoli oil depot. Imposing a siege on the refinery, they also prevented trucks taking fuel to the capital.Both diesel and petrol supplies were affected.Warning that the action would result in fuel shortages in both Tripoli and the Jebel Nafusa, the NOC later said that as an emergency measure it would be diverting tankers importing fuel to Tripoli port rather than Zawia.It also warned that it was planning legal action against those responsible and called for national solidarity against them.This afternoon, however, it was reported that following negotiations the siege had been lifted and that the situation was back to normal.

 

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Fresh fighting in Gasr Ben Ghashir

Fighting erupted this evening near Gasr Ben Ghashir, next to Tripoli International Airport, between units mainly belonging to Tripoli strongman

Egyptian parliament’s human rights committee begins ‘surprise visits’ to police stations

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A delegation of MPs affiliated with the Egyptian parliament’s human rights committee began on Tuesday paying field visits to a number of police stations and prisons in Cairo and Giza. Alaa Abed, the head of the committee, told reporters that the visits reflect the committee’s role in supervising the performance of police officers and ensuring that human rights are fully observed in police stations and prison cells. “The visits will in particular focus on police stations and prison cells where some torture cases were reported”, said Abed. Azer told Ahram Online that the parliamentary delegation began on Tuesday by visiting El-Warraq district police station in Greater Cairo.Azer revealed that the committee’s visits will also include orphanages.”We got several reports from the media and independent lawyers that there was a lot of abuses in some orphanages and child care centres and we want to review conditions there”, said Azer.

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Foreign ministers of Arab states boycotting Qatar discuss dispute during New York talks

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The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain agreed during talks in New York on Monday that they welcome a political resolution to the festering three-month row with Qatar, on condition that the Gulf state complies with the demands and principles outlined by the quartet of Arab nations.”We discussed recent developments in the dispute with Qatar,” Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters following the talks, which were held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at the headquarters of the Egyptian mission to the UN.The four Arab nations demand that Doha comply with six principles, including a commitment to combating terrorism and ending what they describe as acts of incitement and interference in the internal affairs of other Arab countries.They also demand that the Gulf monarchy abide by a list of 13 demands for Qatar, which include ending its support for the Muslim Brotherhood group, shutting down the Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channel, closing a Turkish military base and downgrading its ties with Iran.

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Egypt’s Sisi holds bilateral talks with world leaders on sidelines of UN General Assembly

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held talks on Tuesday with a number of head of states and senior international leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York.El-Sisi met with Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, and the two men discussed irregular migration. In addition, El-Sisi met with Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades and discussed energy issues and Egyptian-Greek-Cyprian cooperation.The Egyptian president also discussed means of bolstering Egyptian-Brazilian economic ties.On Monday, El-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time.The Egyptian president is also scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

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Houthi militias trick members of Saleh’s Republican Guards out of Sanaa

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Houthi militias have pulled a trap to stir away the dissolved Republican Guard’s officers (loyalty lay with ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh) and soldiers from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Sources from the Republican Guard said that Houthi militias, who control Yemen’s Ministry of Defense in Sanaa, informed a large group of officers and soldiers loyal to Saleh that they can collect their salaries, which have been suspended for about a year, from Dhamar governorate last Thursday. The governorate is located 120 km south of the Yemeni capital. Sources continued to explain that the Houthis’ lie pushed many to travel to Dhamar to receive their salaries. Upon their arrival to the designated location, Houthi militias detained them in a camp and confiscated their phones and IDs. News website, asima-online.net, said a private source revealed that the officers did not receive their salaries as per the Houthis’ “trick”. Instead, militias wanted to stir the Guard away from Sanaa, pre-anticipating and preventing any military action against them from Saleh.

 

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Nnamdi Kanu brainwashed my brother says man whose relations was killed in IPOB clash

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An aggrieved man has taken to Twitter to allege that his brother died as he confronted armed soldiers in the struggle for the realisation of the Biafran State. The man, one Onyema Isaac Ugo with Twitter handle @OnyemaIsaa, claims that his relation was killed by the soldiers in Umuahia last Friday. In his social media lamentation which friends and other sympathisers reacted to, Mr. Ugo alleged that the late Kelechi was recruited into the Indigenous People of Biafra, but that he was felled by “the bullets of the army”. Ugo wrote he told Kelechi to stop this IPOB of a thing but he didn’t listen, because he has been brainwashed by NK. I don’t know if he was under a spell by IPOB. Kelechi’s mother said the late man left Anara for Umuahia last Friday morning at about 8pm; and that though his mother reportedly warned him earlier on Friday morning not to go to Umuahia that day, he refused. Explaining how his family members were informed of Kelechi’s death, Ugo said that they got the news from an unknown caller on Friday night by 9pm. Kelechi was shot by army in Nnamdi Kanu’s community.

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IPOB of using fake videos to hoodwink international community – Lai Mohammed

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The Federal Government has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) of using fake videos of mass killings, harvested from other parts of Africa and doctored to look current, to mislead the international community and win their support. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this when he addressed Online Publishers in Lagos on Monday. According to the Minister, IPOB has harvested gory videos and pictures from other lands and the distant past, which they are now circulating via the Social Media, to deceive the international community into believing that the people of the South-east are being subjected to state-sponsored, ethno-religious violence. These videos, which have very high emotive quotient, are circulating on the Social Media as we speak. These videos seems to be current but actually they are fake. Either way, there is nothing like genocide anywhere in our country today. What we have in the South-east is a clampdown on a band of lawless people who have no regard for the laws of the land.

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Libyan coastguard burn refugee vessel in Mediterranean

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A Libyan coastguard unit has been filmed destroying a boat used to traffic people by setting it ablaze. The waters between the north African coastline and the EU continue to draw illegal people smugglers in high numbers, while authorities push to prevent it.The incident adds to the maritime force’s already growing reputation for intimidating tactics.In part funded by the EU to keep migrants from reaching European shores, the Libyan naval defense intercepted 1,074 refugees in the Mediterranean on Saturday.The operation saw refugees picked up by the coastguard west of the capital Tripoli, before being transferred to city of Zawiya, Reuters reports.Around €46 million in EU funding has been poured into boosting the capacities of Libyan border patrols. In July, the EU said the money would be largely used in “strengthening” the coastguard of the civil war-hit nation.

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Dignity Operation militiaman shoots police officer in Benghazi

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A policeman has sustained injuries in an attack by a militiaman from Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army in Masakim neighborhood in the eastern city of Benghazi. Lieutenant Colonel Jamal Al-Amami told Bawabt Alwaset news outlet that “a Special Forces soldier opened fire at Ahmed Al-Orifi, a police officer from Abu-Atny Police Station, while doing his job at one of the crossroads in Masakim.Al-Amami explained that Al-Orifi was injured and underwent a successful surgery, stressing that such action “does not represent the Special Forces, but represents the perpetrator only”.The reason for the armed attack was not revealed.

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