Hundreds of thousands of Dutch citizens have had their most sensitive personal information compromised after a cyberattack on Clinical Diagnostics, a medical laboratory in Rijswijk, Dutch media reported Monday. The hackers, identifying themselves as the group Nova, are threatening to release the stolen data unless their demands are met.
According to RTL Nieuws, Nova had previously received payment from the laboratory to prevent the disclosure of an earlier data theft. The group now claims the company “violated agreements,” potentially by involving law enforcement, and has issued a new ultimatum. A countdown clock posted on the dark web gives the company …
Libya’s High National Elections Commission announced late Saturday that polls had closed in the second round of municipal council elections, with ballot counting already under way across 26 municipalities.
The vote, part of a broader effort to revive local governance, drew what officials described as unexpectedly strong participation, despite suspensions and attacks that underscored the fragility of Libya’s political landscape.
In its statement, the commission said every polling station in the participating municipalities had shut down “without any notable security violations,” and that the counting process had begun on site. Preliminary figures put voter turnout at 71 percent, with more …
Reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the fresh batch of 131 Nigerians who were repatriated from Libya as illegal migrants have arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The stranded migrants had been received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday.
Mr Ibrahim Farinloye who is the NEMA’s acting Coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office has announced that the Nigerians arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 7:20 p.m.
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They …
The Federal Government has condemned ‘in strong terms’ the killing of a Nigerian in Tripoli, Libya.
The Nigerian whose identity has not been confirmed was doused in petrol on Wednesday at a factory in Tripoli by three Libyan nationals before being set on fire.
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Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa in a statement on Thursday signed by a spokesperson for NIDCOM, Gabriel Odu described the act as ‘dastardly, beastial and unacceptable.’
Meanwhile a statement by the Libyan Interior Ministry has condemned the act insisting that it is a …
Libya on Monday reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus infections, the highest tally for a single day since the conflict-ravaged country announced its first cases in late March.
“Of the 4,291 tests performed on Sunday, 1,080 were positive,” said the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a Tripoli-based government agency.
The figure brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the North African country to 18,834, including 16,376 who required hospitalisation, 2,162 patients who recovered and 296 deaths.
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The NCDC urged people in areas where the virus is spreading …
Three Sudanese migrants were killed in a shooting in Libya after the country’s coast guard intercepted them at sea and returned them to shore, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.
The UNHCR said it “deplores the tragic loss of three lives and calls for an urgent investigation” into the shootings at Al-Khums, a port city about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Tripoli late Monday.
“The shooting occurred after more than 70 people were disembarked from a vessel,”
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organization seen as being close to Vladimir Putin, are fighting in Libya, UN diplomats said Wednesday, citing an experts’ report on the country’s arms embargo.
It was the first time the UN has confirmed claims first made in US media that the group is supporting military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Moscow has denied being responsible for deploying the group.
The report also revealed that Haftar was being supported by Syrian fighters.
The Wagner Group is a shadowy private security firm and thousands of its contractors are believed to be in foreign conflicts from …
On Monday, projectiles struck the grounds of the Al Khadra General Hospital located in an area held by the internationally recognised government near a front line, injuring at least six health workers.
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Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a news conference held via video link that the
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Ghassan Salame, has resigned his appointment citing health reasons.
Spokesman of the UN Chief, Mr Stéphane Dujarric, confirmed the development to UN correspondents in New York on Monday after Salame announced the resignation in a tweet.
“My health no longer allows this pace of stress. So, I asked the Secretary-General to relieve me of my mission hoping for peace and stability in Libya,’’ he wrote.
Dujarric said the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had received Ghassan Salame’s resignation letter and would meet with him later to discuss a smooth transition.
Ghassan Salame, who doubled …
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya.
The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on Thursday night in Lagos.
Farinloye said that the Nigerians arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, late on Thursday night.
According to him, the returnees were brought via Al Buraq Air Boeing 737 aircraft with flight number UZ 189 and registration number 5A-DMG.
He said that the Nigerians were brought by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and European Union on the platform of
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 168 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya.
The Acting Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on behalf of the Director-General of NEMA at the cargo wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
Farinloye told newsmen that the returnees arrived in the country aboard a chartered Al Buraq airline with flight number UZ289/190 at 5:42 a.m after 12 hours delay.
He said that 38 female adults, five female children were returned with 109 adult males, six male children and 10 infants, among others.
The MoU, signed in February 2017 by Italy and the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez al-Sarraj, set out a framework for the two countries to work together in “development cooperation, countering illegal migration, human trafficking and smuggling and reinforcing security at the Libya-Italy border”.
Despite calls from human rights groups to revoke it, the newly installed Italian government signalled it has no intention of changing course in the way it deals with its Libyan partners.
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