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Spotlight | Libya
Dabaiba wants radars, drones and patrol boats to keep migrants ashore

Libya's Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba. © Facebook/@pmGNUmedia

Libya's Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), under Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba's control, has plans to build a vast surveillance network along the country's coast. The $500m project has already sparked interest from defence firms Leonardo, L3-Harris and Raytheon. [...]

Published on 23/11/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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Spotlight | Libya
Dabaiba wants radars, drones and patrol boats to keep migrants ashore

Libya
Dabaiba puts brakes on election process to consternation of West

Spotlight | Libya
Why Haftar rolled out the red carpet for Beshir Saleh and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

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Rome to renovate third and last Libyan patrol boat in dry dock in Bizerte

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