Events
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Libya, Libyan Crisis, Second Libyan Civil War
January to April
- January 5 – The Libyan dynar (national currency) drops from being worth .746 to .225 US dollars.
- January 13 – Rival governments meet for talks aimed at unifying the national budget.[2]
- January 15 – The United Nations Security Council names Jan Kubis, a former Slovakian foreign minister, as its new envoy to Libya.[3]
- January 19 – Political rivals begin talks under United Nations auspicies to lay the groundwork for a legal foundation for elections on December 24.[4]
- January 28 – The United States calls for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish troops.[5]
- February 5
- February 18 – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah meet in Cairo.[7]
- February 21 – Armed gunmen attack Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha's motorcade in Tripoli.[8]
- February 22 – Authorities free 156 victims of human trafficking from Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan in Kufra. Six traffickers are arrested.[9]
- February 28 – Fifteen people drown and 115, mostly migrants, are saved when a rubber boat sank near Zawiya. 41 people had drowned in a similar incident on February 20.[10]
- March 3
- Agence France-Presse says a confidential UN report finds Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was elected after bribing at least three people. Dbeibah says the report is untrue.[11]
- The government says migration is not a top priority and calls upon international organizations to step up monitoring and rescue efforts.[12]
- March 7 – Parliamentarians from both sides arrive in Sirte to discuss the formation of a unity government.[13]
- March 10 – Parliament approves Abdulhamid Dbeibeh's interim cabinet 132–2.[14]
- March 31 – Two women and three migrant children drown when a boat capsizes. 77 others are rescued. 480 migrants were rescued over the weekend.[15]
- April 23 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that a shipwreck off the coast of Libya claims the lives of 130 migrants.[16]
- September 3 – Fighting breaks out between different factions in Tripoli as tensions rise throughout the country.[17]
