Oil prices climbed today, following a drawdown in U.S crude stocks. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 31 cents, or 0.5%, at $62.35 a barrel by 07:41 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures CLc1 were up 27 cents, or 0.5% higher at $55.86 a barrel.

Human Rights Solidarity announced that 1155 casualties of violent incidents in various cities in Libya were documented. The vast majority, 79% of the victims were civilians (906 victims) and the percentage of victims from the police, security and military sectors was 12%, while 9% of the victims were not clas…

Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the international community to make stronger efforts for peace in Libya in order to prevent the country from descending into a proxy war between regional actors. “We have to be very careful that what happened in Syria, will not happen again in Libya,” Merkel c…

Special Representative of The Secretary-General (SRSG) Ghassan Salame and DSRSG for political affairs Stephanie Williams met yesterday in Tunis with Fawzi Al-Nuweiri and Ahmed Houma, first and second deputy of Libya’s House of Representatives Speaker. They discussed the Berlin Conference outcomes and the revival o…