A camp in southern Tunisia for people who fled the Libya conflict is to close in late June despite protests by residents who have failed to win asylum elsewhere, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.

"Considering the significant reduction in the number of arrivals seeking asylum and thanks to the success of the resettlement operations, the Tunisian authorities and the UNHCR have agreed to close the Choucha transit camp on June 30," it said in a statement.

Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, a cousin of Moammar Gadhafi, who is wanted in Libya for his role in the regime of the slain Libyan strongman, Egyptian state media reported.

Qaddaf al-Dam, reached on his cell phone, however sought to play down the arrest and said he would file a complaint with the Egyptian public prosecutor and Libyan authorities.

Libya's economy grew more than 100 percent in 2012 on the back of oil production which had come to a standstill during the country's 2011 revolution, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

"Economic growth in 2012 exceeded 100 percent, reflecting a strong recovery from its collapse during the revolution" which overthrew Moamer Kadhafi, IMF team leader Ralph Chami said following a February 20-March 7 mission to Libya.

The U.N. Security Council raised new concerns Thursday about arms flowing from Libya into neighboring countries and thousands of detainees held in secret by militias.

A resolution renewing the mandate of the U.N. mission in Libya highlighted "the illicit proliferation of all arms and related material of all types" since the fall of Libya's longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Gunmen on Thursday attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and started a fire, witnesses said.

"Several armed men arrived firing in the air, started a fire in the church and left," a resident near the church in central Benghazi told Agence France Presse, asking not to be named.

President Barack Obama Wednesday tapped a new ambassador to Libya, six months after the previous U.S. envoy was killed in a brutal militant attack which shocked America to its core.

The announcement that career diplomat Deborah Jones is set to replace slain ambassador, Chris Stevens, came as the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was in Washington for talks with senior officials.

Fifty-five Egyptian Christians arrested last month in Libya for allegedly seeking to convert Muslims have been freed, while four others are still behind bars, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

"Our embassy has been assured of the release of 55 people and is actively working to seek the release of four others who are still in detention," deputy spokesman Nazih al-Naggary told Agence France Presse.

More than 50 people have died in Libya since Saturday after drinking cheap homemade alcohol and hundreds were poisoned, the health ministry said on Monday, as the authorities in the Muslim country vowed a crackdown on booze trafficking.

The ministry said 38 people died in Tripoli hospitals while 13 others perished on their way to neighboring Tunisia, where their families were hoping they could be treated.

An Egyptian Christian jailed in Libya has been tortured to death in custody, an Egyptian human rights lawyer told Agence France Presse in Cairo on Monday, with demonstrators attacking the Libyan embassy in protest.

Ezzat Hakim Attallah "died after being tortured with other detainees" in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, said Naguib Guebrayel, a Coptic Christian lawyer who heads the Egyptian Union for Human Rights watchdog.

A source revealed on Sunday that Libyan slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi confessed that revered spiritual leader Moussa al-Sadr was not hanged right after Gadhafi’s order in late August 1978.

“Al-Sadr was held captive for two or three years at the headquarters of the Libyan military intelligence along with his two companions,” the source said quoting Senussi.