2021 in Libya

Events in Libya in 2021.

Incumbents

President: Fayez al-Sarraj, Mohamed al-Menfi Prime Minister:

January 5 – The Libyan dynar drops from being worth.746 to.225 US dollars.
January 13 – Rival governments meet for talks aimed at unifying the national budget.
January 15 – The United Nations Security Council names Jan Kubis, a former Slovakian foreign minister, as its new envoy to Libya.
January 19 – Political rivals begin talks under United Nations auspicies to lay the groundwork for a legal foundation for elections on December 24.
January 28 – The United States calls for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish troops.

February 5
* Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is chosen as transitional unity prime minister of Libya.
* The International Organization for Migration says 800 European-bound migrants were intercepted by the Libyan Navy in the last 24 hours.
February 18 – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah meet in Cairo.
February 21 – Armed gunmen attack Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha's motorcade in Tripoli.
February 22 – Authorities free 156 victims of human trafficking from Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan in Kufra. Six traffickers are arrested.
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.

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.
* The government says migration is not a top priority and calls upon international organizations to step up monitoring and rescue efforts.
March 7 – Parliamentarians from both sides arrive in Sirte to discuss the formation of a unity government.
March 10 – Parliament approves Abdulhamid Dbeibeh's interim cabinet 132–2.
March 31 – Two women and three migrant children drown when a boat capsizes. 77 others are rescued. 480 migrants were rescued over the weekend.

April 23 – The International Organization for Migration reports that a shipwreck off the coast of Libya claims the lives of 130 migrants.

September 3 – Fighting breaks out between different factions in Tripoli as tensions rise throughout the country.

March 26 – After seven years, international football returns to Libya. The Libyan national team lost 5–2 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualification match in ″Benina Martyrs Stadium″ near Benghazi.