Advice for under-resourced newsrooms, one-to-one mentoring for editorial staff.

By IWPR Libya - Libya

In the most comprehensive media training programme to reach eastern Libya, IWPR has been working with newsrooms and individual reporters to raise standards and skills.

The three-month initiative covered seven towns and cities from Ajdabiya eastwards to Tobruk, taking in Benghazi. Print and broadcast news outlets here are mostly isolated and badly under-resourced.

CAIRO, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

But after two weeks of imprisonment and torture, the 68-year-old former contractor fled.

"They accused me of supporting [former ruler Muammar] Gaddafi during the revolution, which is not true at all," Warfella told IRIN in Cairo. "These people have turned life into hell for people, not just in Bani Walid, but everywhere in Libya."

Tripoli – 13 May 2013 – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemns the criminal bombing that took place this afternoon near Al-Jala’a Hospital in Benghazi city. The bombing resulted in a number of deaths, including children, in addition to several injuries. UNSMIL would like to express its sincerest condolences to the families of the victims, and wishes those injured a speedy recovery.

(Brussels, May 13, 2013) – Human Rights Watch today issued a document with questions and answers concerning the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Libya.

TRIPOLI, May 8 (Reuters) - Libya's political crisis deepened on Wednesday as armed groups surrounding two ministries in the capital said they had formed an alliance to present an expanded list of six demands that included the resignation of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.

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05/08/2013 20:10 GMT

by Imed LAMLOUM

TRIPOLI, Libya, May 08, 2013 (AFP) - Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan announced on Wednesday a cabinet reshuffle "in the coming days," against the backdrop of the country's latest political crisis, sparked by former rebels besieging two ministries.

"There will no doubt be a ministerial reshuffle in the coming days," he told a press conference.

UNHCR also continues to provide protection and assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers, including Syrians and people from sub-Saharan Africa on mixed migration routes, as well as some 60,000 people still internally displaced.

TRIPOLI — Militiamen besieging key Libyan ministries say they won’t release their chokehold on the government of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan until it fires anyone who worked for the regime of the late Moammar Gadhafi.

If the militias succeed in forcing the General National Congress (GNC) to pass a law barring Gaddafi-era officials from being lawmakers or working for the government, Libya could be plunged into an even deeper crisis with no clear guidelines on how to proceed.

Jamie Dettmer

Libya’s top religious authority, the grand mufti, is stirring up controversy with a call for strict gender segregation in all workplaces, classrooms and government offices.

The nation’s human rights groups are warning the mufti’s call, if heeded, will likely encourage Islamic vigilantes who have been pressing for gender segregation and who patrol the streets looking for women they say are immodestly clothed or unaccompanied by a male relative.