October 2020 - Preparations are underway for the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) which is scheduled to be held in Tunisia in November, according to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs in Libya Stephanie...

October 2020 - The agreement will not only present a road map for Turkish firms to collect unpaid receivables but is expected to pave the way for new construction and infrastructure projects The memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked between Turkey and Libya's United...

October 2020 - The Libyan Investment Authority has appointed EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, as its new external auditor. EY will undertake the audit of the LIA for the financial year ending December 31, 2019. Commenting on the appointment, Dr Ali Mahmoud...

October 2020 - But the fact that the talks are going on and the two sides are hoping to arrive at an acceptable format with the support of all major stakeholders, this time around the scenario presents a more optimistic picture. On October 10, the UNSMIL announced...

October 2020 - Minister of Transport, Milad Matouq, held discussions on Tuesday, with the Spanish ambassador to Libya, regarding the contribution of Spanish companies in developing Libyan airports. The two sides explored the possibility of coordinating a visit to...

October 2020 - Light sweet Libyan crude is starting to trickle through after an eight-month hiatus as rival groups agreed a tentative truce. The prospect of over 1 million b/d hitting the market in the coming months coincides with an uncertain demand outlook amid a...

October 2020 - The Head of Libya’s High Council of State Khalid Al-Mishri arrived in Malta for talks with Malta's Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo on Wednesday and discussed the state of affairs in Libya. Times of Malta reported the Foreign Affairs Ministry of...

October 2020 - The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has appointed Damien Moore MP (pictured) as his Trade Envoy to Libya and Tunisia. In a statement, the Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) said: "We look forward to working with him on building the bilateral...

October 2020 - In a meeting today with the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Stephanie Williams, Ambassador Norland reiterated full U.S. support for the UN-facilitated Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) process, through which Libyan parties...

October 2020 - The former head of the UN Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL), Ghassan Salame, voiced his optimism about the peace negotiations in Libya, in an interview with France 24. He believes that, “The situation has never been so propitious for a solution to the...

October 2020 - London, 13 October 2020: The UNDP has launched its Re-Start-Up events, a two-day marathon where entrepreneurs, who lost their business due to the conflict, will develop innovative business ideas that can contribute to recovering the economy in their...

October 2020 - London, 12 October 2020: Libya’s Tripoli Audit Bureau demanded that the beleaguered state General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) respond ‘‘with the necessary speed and clarity’’ to its official correspondence regarding a number of questions...

October 2020 - TUNIS - The first face-to-face meetings of the the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum will take place in Tunisia in November, announced the United Nations. Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support...

October 2020 - TRIPOLI – Sources from the Libyan Armed Forces revealed that Turkey withdrew 1500 Syrian mercenaries and sent hundreds of Turkish soldiers instead to western Libya, which represents deception and fraud of international decisions. The sources, who asked...

October 2020 - Tripoli 10 October 2020 - Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Stephanie Williams is pleased to announce the resumption of inclusive intra-Libyan talks, based on Security...

October 2020 - Egypt’s president Saturday ratified a maritime deal setting its Mediterranean Sea boundary with Greece and demarcating an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights, the state-run news agency reported, in a move that has angered Turkey. The...

October 2020 - The so-called LPDF will involve both virtual sessions—which will begin on 26 October—and face-to-face meetings Head of the UN support mission in Libya and UN chief’s acting special representative Stephanie Williams announced on Sunday that Tunisia will...

October 2020 - Divisions within Libya’s civil war have been amplified by foreign-sponsored disinformation campaigns. Reconciliation and peacebuilding will require local actors to reclaim Libya’s digital spaces. Nested within Libya’s ongoing civil war are a fog of...

October 2020 - Eight European ambassadors left Tunisia for Libya on Saturday to present their credentials to the relevant authorities in Tripoli. According to sources, the delegation included ambassadors of the European Union, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway,...

October 2020 - As he shuttles between countries concerned with Libya, Norland reassures Europeans and plays a larger role than a regular ambassador. TUNIS – US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, is leading the political process between the Libyan factions with the...

October 2020 - London, 8 October 2020: The Tripoli-based Central Bank of Libya (CBL) provided loans of up to LD 20.030 bn to finance Libya’s budget deficit until 30 September 2020, it revealed in its latest statistical monthly bulletin. It revealed that total state...

October 2020 - Opposing delegates sign agreement in Morocco on a mechanism to appoint sovereign heads Delegates from Libya’s two rival administrations have announced that the second round of talks culminated on criteria to select the heads of sovereign positions in...

October 2020 - London, 8 October 2020: The eastern Libyan headquartered privately-owned Bank of Commerce and Development (BCD) has denied the accusation made by the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) that it provided a loan to the Khalifa Hafter-led Libyan National...

October 2020 - Today, the governor of the internationally recognized Central Bank of Libya, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabeer, warned of the collapse of the financial and monetary stability of the state due to the record high overall public debt. “Libya Al-Ahrar” channel quoted...

October 2020 - Libya, with Africa's largest oil reserves containing some of the world's highest quality crude oil, has been able to raise its production by approximately 20,000 bpd to 290,000 bpd, which is welcome news to the manifold oil industry. The easing of a...

October 2020 - Following the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and UN Secretary-General António Guterres invited the international community to a virtual conference on the Libya conflict. The goal: to take stock and determine the next steps along the...

October 2020 - Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita confirmed that the agreements reached by the Libyan delegations at the end of the second round of the Libyan dialogue sessions in Bouznika are “decisive”. BOUZNIKA, Morocco – Delegates from Libya’s two rival...

October 2020 - London, 5 October 2020: The cessation of clashes between the armed forces of the East and the West, while waiting for and the ongoing meetings between the two belligerents in Morocco and Switzerland are the first signs of a positive development in the...

October 2020 - The United States pledged support for Libya's electric company amid continued blackouts in Libya, which are fueling popular unrest. As part of the Economic Working Group for Libya, representatives of some 10 countries, the European Union, the African...

October 2020 - Libya's Interior Ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US (K2 Intelligence) firm specialized in the field of financial integrity and anti-terrorist financing, according to a tweet by Fathi Bashagha, Minister of Interior of the...

October 2020 - The delegations of the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) and the Tobruk Parliament continue their meetings in the Moroccan city of Bouznika, to agree on joint criteria and mechanisms for appointments to sovereign positions in the country. A positive...

October 2020 - On 5 October 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, and the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Heiko Maas, co-chaired a Ministerial meeting on Libya on the margins of the 75th session of the...

October 2020 - Ankara’s assertive foreign policy is an increasing factor in broad geopolitical dispute Plans for a durable Libyan ceasefire are to be endorsed by diplomats from 15 countries on Monday, but the value of the commitments made in the virtual meeting are...

October 2020 - Over 200 leading businesspeople and bureaucrats of Libya are expected to pay an official visit to Turkey this month. The main aim of the delegation is to improve economic ties between Turkey and Libya, Anadolu Agency (AA) said in a report Thursday. The...

October 2020 - Libya’s oil output has risen to 270,000 barrels per day (bpd) as the OPEC member ramps up exports following the easing of a blockade by eastern forces, a Libyan oil source told Reuters. The country’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) had said it expected...

October 2020 - UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations and Germany are co-chairing a ministerial meeting on Monday of world powers and other countries with interests in Libya’s long-running civil war in hopes of promoting a cease-fire between its rival governments....

October 2020 - The European Union removed an east Libyan powerbroker from its sanctions blacklist to encourage peace efforts and ensure the EU plays a central role in any negotiated settlement in Libya. The de-listing of speaker Saleh was agreed in light of his recent...

October 2020 - London, 2 October 2020: Eight top Libyan officials, including a minister, have been arrested or charged with corruption, the Attorney General’s Media Office confirmed on Wednesday. The implicit confirmation came through the publication of a TV news...

October 2020 - The Council today decided to remove Agila Saleh, speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, and Nuri Abu Sahmain, former president of the internationally unrecognised General National Congress of Libya, from the list of individuals and...

October 2020 - The Libyan company Alhandasya has been chosen by the Libyan government to build a 62 kWp solar power plant. The installation will be located in the Centre for Solar Energy and Research (CSERS) in Tajura, near the capital Tripoli. A solar photovoltaic...

October 2020 - The Libyan people continue to suffer as the country’s politics are fractured and regional powers seek to advance their own interests. Nearly a decade into Libya’s byzantine conflict, a sustainable solution appears as distant as ever, even though...

October 2020 - Ahmed Maiteeq, Vice President of the Government of National Accord (GNA), revealed in an interview with French magazine ‘Jeune Afrique’, the details of the agreement to resume Libya’s oil production. The magazine said that Maiteeq distinguished himself...

October 2020 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Tuesday29/9/2020 a phone call from United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson to exchange views on a number of regional and international files, topped by the situation in Libya, said Presidential Spokesman...

October 2020 - EU officials have drawn up plans to deploy European military observers to Libya if a cease-fire takes hold there — a potentially high-risk mission reflecting a drive by foreign policy chief Josep Borrell for the bloc to play a more active role beyond...

September 2020 - The European Union, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), is launching a new project entitled “Building Libya’s National Capacity...

September 2020 - Libya has become part of a geo-political proxy war, where everyone involved has their own personal interests in mind. But people have had enough. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen protests erupt across Libya, including in its major cities such as...

September 2020 - In what came as an unexpected announcement this September, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj stated his intention to step down by the end of October following speculation in the press about his possible resignation the week prior to the...

September 2020 - LONDON and TRIPOLI, Libya, Sept. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), Africa’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has announced the conclusion of the first phase of its comprehensive Transformation Programme, a major...

September 2020 - (Bloomberg) -- Police in Tripoli arrested the former chief executive officer of Libyan Foreign Bank on Monday, two Libyan security and judicial officials said, following a power struggle at the top of the institution that gathers the country’s oil...

September 2020 - (Bloomberg) -- Libya’s oil production has almost tripled to 250,000 barrels a day since a partial lifting last week of a blockade on the war-torn country’s energy facilities, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. Fields that feed...

September 2020 - (MENAFN - African Press Organization) TUNIS, Tunisia, September 25, 2020/APO Group/ -- On 23 September, Acting UN SRSG Stephanie Williams and the Ambassador-designate of the European Union to Libya, José Sabadell, as the rotating chair of the Economic...

September 2020 - The UN acting envoy to Libya Stephenie Williams has recommended sanctions for anyone trying to spoil next month’s crucial Libyan talks aimed at negotiating a unity government. Williams told Bloomberg that the dysfunction has become so severe that...

September 2020 - Rival Libyan factions will resume on Tuesday their dialogue in an attempt to resolve their country’s crisis. The second round of talks between the High Council of State and east-based parliament will resume at the Moroccan resort town of Bouznika....

September 2020 - Foreign Minister Abdul Hadi al-Huweij of Libya’s eastern-based administration has inspected oilfields and ports after the recent resumption of oil production and called on foreign investors to return to the country’s oil sector after a month-long...

September 2020 - Two militias recognized by the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli clashed on the borders of the eastern Tripoli suburb of Tajura (Bivi/Bir Stamilad) early this morning. The militias, Al-Dhaman (Security) and Usood Tajura (Tajura...

September 2020 - Libya’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Taher Siala announced Friday he will hold talks with Greek and Maltese authorities to discuss the delimitation of maritime borders in line with Libya's interests. Siala met with the head of Libya’s National Oil...

September 2020 - London, UK, Sep 26, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Oil Price, a British Company, has released a research report about the situation with oil in Libya. Ahmed Maiteeq, Vice Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, arrived in the capital of Turkey to take...

September 2020 - Russia and China blocked the official release of a report by U.N. experts on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers - including Russia - of violating a U.N. arms embargo on the conflict-wracked country, U.N. diplomats...

September 2020 - I grew up with an undying love for Libya which only intensified when I moved abroad in 2000. I longed for the beach, the food, and having a room in a house that's actually big enough to hold a whole family. I saw my childhood through rose-tinted...

September 2020 - Morocco’s coastal town of Bouznika, south of the capital Rabat, will host a second round of talks between parties to the Libyan conflict on Sunday. The first round was held this month. According to Moroccan diplomatic sources who spoke to Sky News...

September 2020 - Active and engaged US leadership is necessary to unfreeze the intractable Libyan civil war and prevent Turkey and Russia from using it to dominate the Eastern Mediterranean. Ruptures in Libya’s already fractured politics could cause the country to...

September 2020 - EU foreign ministers also imposed travel bans and asset freezes on two Libyan individuals accused of human rights violations. The European Union (EU) on Monday imposed sanctions on three companies — one Turkish, one Kazakh, and one Jordanian — for...

September 2020 - A few flickers of light may be penetrating Libya’s deepening gloom. On the one hand, Libya’s misery grows worse. As Acting U.N. Special Representative Stephanie Williams told the U.N. Security Council on September 3, COVID-19 cases are expanding...

September 2020 -  London, 22 September 2020: Benghazi Port Authority announced Sunday that it will start to receive Hyundai Glovis ships from October. Hyundai Glovis is a major shipping line owned by Hyundai, owner of one of the largest shipyards in the world. The...

September 2020 -  The rival powers in Libya are discussing ways to divide oil export revenue after reaching an agreement to lift embargo on oil sales, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Al Arabiya broadcaster MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st September,...

September 2020 - London, 19 September 2020: Ahmed Maetig, Deputy head of Libya’s Presidency Council, which is headed by Faiez Serraj, published on an official Libyan government Facebook page the terms of the agreement with Khalifa Hafter for the resumption of oil...

September 2020 - Given everything that’s happened this year, and now that we’ve filled the “double hurricane” box, perhaps it wouldn’t be that surprising to see “armed conflict within NATO” as the winning square on our 2020 bingo card. This is precisely what could...

September 2020 - With the increasing pressure from the European Union (EU), and the growing instability in Libya, Turkey decided to shift its pursuits in the Mediterranean from western waters to southbasin. Turkey is temporarily resigning from the complicated...

September 2020 - The EU will help write Libya's national strategy of border security and management, according to an internal EU document. Dated 1 September and obtained by EUobserver, the document spells out what the EU's border assistance mission in Libya (EUbam)...

September 2020 - Prime Minister of Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) Farrej al-Sarraj announced on Wednesday his intention to step down, prompting a flurry of speculation about his reasons for doing so, as well as fears that his resignation...

September 2020 - London, 19 September 2020: Just when you think Libya is complicated – it gets even more complicated. Khalifa Hafter and his international allies have on the issue of the oil blockade seemingly outmanoeuvred Faiez Serraj and his allies in western...

September 2020 - ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia have moved closer to an agreement on a ceasefire and political process in Libya during their latest meetings in Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk late on...

September 2020 - For almost a decade, Libya has been riven by increasingly internationalized conflicts. Foreign missteps and the failures of Libyan elites to produce political unity and workable institutions have opened the field for an escalating proxy war. FOR FULL...

September 2020 - The Turkey-Libya Business Council Chairman, Murtaza Karanfil, said Tuesday his country's exports to Libya could be increased from 1 billion dollars to 10, telling Anadolu Agency that Libya is now preparing for investments in aviation, infrastructure...

September 2020 - The National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Sunday that losses due to the stoppage of production and exports amounted to 9.8 billion dollars since last January, noting that the period of closure has now reached 240 days. The NOC appealed to those...

September 2020 - The rival government in eastern Libya has submitted its resignation after a number of protests over deteriorating living conditions and corruption.   At the weekend demonstrators in the city of Benghazi set fire to the government's headquarters.  ...

September 2020 - London, 15 September 2020: Libya’s Tripoli oversight entity, the Audit Bureau (AB), rejects Siemens contract Contract was awarded by GECOL for € 250 million AB says the contract was illegal as it was awarded by direct commissioning Contract was for...

September 2020 - When Christiaan Durrant was four years old his father strapped him to his back and launched them both from an ocean cliff in a homemade hang glider fashioned from tarpaulin, electrical tubes and aluminium piping. Amazingly, the pair made it back to...

September 2020 - The US Embassy in Libya announced renegade General Khalifa Haftar agreed to open key oil fields and terminals as soon as Saturday, The New Arab reported. The move could bring the possibility of a political settlement between Haftar and Libya’s...

September 2020 - Anger over lengthy power cuts, a banking crisis and corruption have fuelled days of protests in eastern Libya Libyan protesters have torched the government headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi amid growing anger over living conditions and...

September 2020 - Libyan authorities have invited Turkish companies to assist in production by taking a larger share of oil and gas reserves in the country, a senior business leader said Sunday. “Libyan authorities have invited Turkish gas and oil companies to Libya,...

September 2020 - The UK has been urged by Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) to seek opportunities in the Libyan oil and gas sector. Addressing the Libyan British Business Council in London, NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla outlined that projects worth billions of...

September 2020 - Strange to say, but the Libyan economy which, as is well-known – depends much, if not almost exclusively, on oil extraction and sale, performed very well in 2017 even at a time of falling prices – currently made more complex by the Covid-19 pandemic...

September 2020 - Hess may attempt to load a cargo of crude oil from Libya’s Es Sider port this week. If successful, the loading represents a glimmer of hope for oil-rich Libya who has had its oil production brought down to just 100,000 barrels per day amid port...

September 2020   Washington has been criticised by the other 14 Council members for stalling the nomination process. Acting top envoy Stephanie Williams is due to leave at month’s end. NEW YORK, UNITED NATIONS - After more than six months of squabbling, the UN...

September 2020 - Moroccan-brokered talks between Libya's two rival administrations have led to agreement on the need for compromise. "The two parties hope to secure positive and concrete results that will clear the way to achieving the process of a comprehensive...

September 2020 - Turkey is in talks over oil and gas exploration in Libya, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration seeks business opportunities in the conflict-ridden North African country. Turkey and Libya’s United Nations-recognized government, which...

September 2020 - PARIS/BRUSSELS — The European Union plans to remove an east Libyan powerbroker from its sanctions blacklist to encourage peace efforts and ensure the EU plays a central role in any negotiated settlement, three diplomats said. After months of inaction,...

September 2020  Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was a State Department analyst, negotiator and adviser in Democratic and Republican administrations. He is the author of “The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t...

September 2020 - TRIPOLI – US pressure on the parties to the Libyan conflict and on influential regional countries succeeded in achieving an important breakthrough in the stalemate that followed the large-scale military confrontations on the Sirte-Jufra line, after...

September 2020 Click Link at bottom to Download Document Gaddafi and his cronies reportedly plundered as much as $200 billion from Libya that was deposited in bank accounts around the world. That wealth could provide an essential source of finance to support...

September 2020 - Reality seems to take longer to hit some states than others. For Russia’s ambitions in Libya, the gravity of the situation on the ground appears finally to be sinking in. For the last two years, Moscow had been investing ever more in Libya,...

September 2020 - The Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Fayez Al-Sarraj held discussions, during his visit to Istanbul, with the American Ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield on methods to expand the strategic partnership between the United States and Libya on...

September 2020 - London, 7 September 2020: The General Union of Libyan Chambers of Commerce announced last Friday the holding of the Libya Turkey Business Platform. The business event will be held on 15-16 October at the Pullman Hotel and Convention Centre, Istanbul....

September 2020 - TRIPOLI - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) congratulates the citizens of Misrata on a peaceful and successful electoral process conducted yesterday 03 September 2020.  “This election has, once again, demonstrated the Libyans’...

September 2020 - Turkey and Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) have signed an economy, technology cooperation protocol. Turkish Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank and Libyan Central Bank Governor Saddek Omar el Kaber and the Libyan...

September 2020 - The Ministry of Finance of the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli confirmed yesterday that it has suspended 17,000 state-sector salaries as of the 1 September. The Ministry said that the move came after it carried out its...

September 2020 - Moroccan neutrality and vital diplomacy in the Libyan civil war make it an obvious candidate to mediate a sustainable peace agreement in Libya. Rabat – Sources in Libya have confirmed that the first steps towards a possible peace agreement will be...

September 2020  Since the 2011 Arab Spring, Libya – a country of 6.7 million inhabitants, potentially very rich with immense oil reserves – has been beset by violent conflicts between different factions and militias, as well as outside players and actors. Ten years of...

September 2020 - Libya’s internationally recognized government reinstated its powerful interior minister suspended over an alleged role in anti-corruption protests, the latest twist in a power struggle that’s threatening stability after a devastating war.   The...

September 2020 - Rival camps in Libya will likely sabotage political processes that could undermine them. The international community can head this off by harnessing protesters’ justified anger.  Only in Libya could the heads of the two rival political camps announce...

September 2020 FULL TEXT OF BRIEFING Mr. President (Ambassador Abdou Abarry of Niger), Excellencies,   Allow me to congratulate Niger for assuming the presidency of the Security Council during the month of September and for giving me the opportunity to brief this...

September 2020 - Libyans are wary over a statement issued by the Turkish Central Bank regarding a MoU concluded on Monday with the Central Bank of Libya. TUNIS – The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, al-Sadiq al-Kabir, dropped a bombshell, surprising everyone in...

September 2020 - TUNIS (Reuters) - The United Nations acting Libya envoy said on Wednesday that foreign supporters of both sides in the civil war were helping them stockpile weapons in breach of an arms embargo and as coronavirus “spirals out of control” in the...

September 2020 Along the border between Tunisia and Libya, informal trade agreements led to a tight-knit border economy. But political changes in both Libya and Tunisia have fundamentally altered the economic and security landscape. The 2010–2011 uprisings disrupted a...

September 2020  A confidential report sent to the Security Council details extensive breaches of the international arms embargo on Libya by eight countries since the beginning of the year. CAIRO — As war raged in Libya last winter, a dozen world leaders gathered in...

September 2020 - Amid popular protests in the capital and elsewhere, divisions have emerged in Libya’s internationally recognised government, though Fayez Al-Sarraj is moving to take control Popular protests in the Libyan capital Tripoli and cities in western Libya...

September 2020 - The central banks of Turkey and Libya on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance financial cooperation. The deal will lay the groundwork for continued cooperation in the field of central banking, according to a statement by the Turkish...

September 2020 - On August 21, the latest ceasefire in Libya’s long war between the Government of National Accord (GNA) of Fayez al-Sarraj and the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar took effect. The main force behind the new ceasefire was the United States, even...

September 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: At the dawn of the 20th century, America was feeling brash and bold. Having just defeated Spain in a war that ranged from Cuba to the Philippines, it was clear that we were an emerging power. But what was that going to mean? The 19th...

August 2020 - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The head of Libya’s internationally recognised government suspended his powerful interior minister from his duties on Friday, saying his handling of street protests and a violent crackdown against them would be investigated. The move...

August 2020 - In the latest in a series of provocative actions linked to the exploration of oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey recently carried out naval exercises in an area of that sea that Greece also considers its own territorial waters. In doing so,...

August 2020 - As Libya’s war winds down to an uneasy truce, a city on the frontlines has become the epicenter of a movement to restore the regime of slain former leader Moammar Al Qaddafi. Starting with an Aug. 20 demonstration in Sirte, where Qaddafi was born and...

August 2020 - The BBC has uncovered new evidence that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libya's capital Tripoli in January 2020.   At the time of the strike on 4 January, Tripoli was under siege by the...

August 2020 - DRI is publishing its latest social media monitoring report that examines online discourse in Libya during the first four months of 2020. Our findings show a continuation of the trends we had previously noticed. Other main findings from the report...

August 2020 - The Head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak made a referral on Monday evening to the Office of the Attorney General, of a file which included details of the Bureau’s investigations into the cause of long hours of power outages throughout the country....

August 2020 - Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) said that it was preparing to load its first shipment of condensates from its Brega oil port after oil exports had been halted for 219 days, Libya Herald reported. According to the news site, the oil tanker...

August 2020 - For the first time in years, the US appears to have adopted a coherent and balanced policy on Libya. Last Friday’s announcement by Fayez Al-Sarraj, the head of the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), of an immediate ceasefire coincided...

August 2020 - On August 21, the political leaders of the two main factions in Libya’s civil war—Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Speaker Aguila Saleh of the eastern-based House of Representatives—issued separate statements...

August 2020 WHILST THERE ARE (AS EXPECTED) MANY MISTAKES IN THIS AND A LACK OF REAL TIME INTELLIGENCE IT IS A WORTHWHILE READ TO UNDERSTAND THE BACKGROUND, PLAYERS AND SOME OF THE DYNAMICS INVOLVED IN THE LIBYAN CONFLICT Cut and paste the below into your web browser....

August 2020 - The updated approach to the Libyan civil war could help Italy regain the influence it once had in the Mediterranean, and the ceasefire announced last week could provide grounds for action. On 21 August, the prime minister of Tripoli’s interim Government...

August 2020 - "Historic"; "A breakthrough"; "A game-changer"; "A betrayal": there is no shortage of epithets for this month's sudden announcement - by President Trump - that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is to fully normalise its relations with Israel. After Egypt's...

August 2020 - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomed the appointment of members of a team of independent experts to document allegations of human rights violations and abuses in Libya. On Wednesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle...

August 2020 - Libya's Audit Bureau head, Khaled Shakshak, arrived Friday in Istanbul to discuss the suspended Turkish projects in Libya. The talks attended by Libya's Minister of Finance, Faraj Abu Matari, and Consul General in Turkey, Fathi Al-Sharif, reviewed the...

August 2020 - For months now, the powers supporting Marshal Khalifa Haftar have been trying to bring together and promote Libyan tribal leaders on the diplomatic stage. These negotiations – led by Egypt with the support of France and the United Arab Emirates –...

August 2020 - Libya's rival authorities have announced an immediate ceasefire. The Tripoli-based and internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) published a statement that also calls for elections in March next year. The truce was also agreed by an...

August 2020 - Libyan National Army (LNA) leader Khalifa Haftar’s 14-month offensive to capture the Libyan capital of Tripoli and unseat the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) failed in June, and his forces lost territory that had taken him over six years...

August 2020 - The Head of Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj met Tuesday with the board of directors of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) and discussed the resumption of suspended power projects and procedures for the return of the firms...

August 2020 - BENGHAZI, Libya, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Authorities in eastern Libya will allow limited exports from blockaded oil ports to free up storage space and enable the production of fuel for power stations, an oil facilities guard and an engineer said on Tuesday. A...

August 2020  Introduction The success of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in forcing the withdrawal of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) from northwestern Libya has led to a temporary détente in the conflict. As GNA officials...

August 2020 - SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - In Sirte’s municipal offices, walls are adorned with pictures of Khalifa Haftar, commander of the eastern-based Libyan National Army. Out in the desert, troops keep watch from behind sandbanks. Already scarred by Libya’s 2011...

August 2020 - London, 13 August 2020: Libya’s Tripoli based Audit Bureau, one of the three main Libyan monitoring and oversight agencies, called on the Tripoli Economy Ministry to launch an electronic tenders and procurement portal. The call came in the form of a...

August 2020  Imagine the house next door is on fire and there is no fire brigade to call on to avert an imminent disaster about to engulf you and your family. That is how Egypt has viewed Libya since the brutal end of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and...

August 2020 - London, 18 August 2020: The U.S Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Libya Public Financial Management program is partnering with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the UN Development Program (UNDP), the World Bank, and the...

August 2020 - TRIPOLI, Libya Libya’s deputy defense minister on Monday announced that his country has agreed with Turkey and Qatar to sign a tripartite deal for military cooperation to boost capabilities of the Libyan military. According to media office of the...

August 2020 - The Head of the High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri reviewed Thursday with Minister of Finance, Faraj Bumatiri, and Audit Bureau's Head, Khaled Shakshak, measures against corruption and efforts to boost economy. The HCS said on Facebook that...

August 2020 - Turkey launched naval exercises off two Greek islands and announced energy exploration research activity in the area, as territorial tensions escalate in the eastern Mediterranean. The two-day naval drill to the east and south of Rhodes and Kastellorizo...

August 2020 - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed steps to establish a demilitarised zone in Libya in a phone call, Al Jazeera said on Thursday. Trump and Erdoğan also discussed possible ways to achieve the withdrawal...

August 2020 - Libya’s oil blockade is now entering its seventh month and the war-torn country’s oil output is hovering at just 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) instead of the pre-crisis 1.2 million bpd. Without a peaceful solution on the horizon, Rystad Energy is further...

August 2020 - Libya's sovereign wealth fund head plans to ask the United Nations to allow it to invest billions of dollars sitting idle in its accounts, after missing out on some $4.1bn in potential equity returns during nearly a decade of sanctions. The Libyan...

August 2020 - As Libya’s U.N.-backed government in Tripoli prepares to reconstruct the civil war-torn country, many projects lie ahead, including accelerating the already initiated ones like those carried out by Turkish contractors. Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations...

August 2020 FOR FULL DOCUMENT PLEASE CLICK LINK ON BASE OF SUMMARY The Libyan economy has recently been hit by four overlapping shocks: an intensifying conflict that suffocates economic activity, the closure of oil fields that puts the country’s major...

August 2020  FOR FULL DOCUMENT PLEASE CLICK LINK ON BASE OF SUMMARY Introduction The success of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in forcing the withdrawal of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) from northwestern Libya has led to a...

August 2020 - A senior British diplomat became involved in a plan to improve the image of Khalifa Haftar after the eastern Libyan commander was accused of committing war crimes. Jolyon Welsh worked on the proposal after joining controversial public relations company...

August 2020 - The CEO of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), Weam Al-Abdali, said Tuesday that three new electrical units will be put into service to support the public grid. According to Al-Abdali, the units will be tied with the Al-Khums station, the...

August 2020 The diplomatic track ongoing between Turkey, Malta and Libya’s Tripoli government has sparked questions whether Valletta’s diplomatic support can serve as a much needed jumping point for Ankara to break the Libya stalemate, but the European country’s only...

August 2020 - Libya has suffered over $8 billion in losses as a result of the oil blockade and the closure of oil wells by putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s militias in the past 200 days, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced Monday. In a statement, the NOC said...

August 2020 - For too long, Libya has been synonymous with conflict. Occupying a strategic location between Africa and Europe with large oil reserves, my nation has long been a battleground. Colonial occupation, world wars, coups, and revolutions litter the pages of...

August 2020 - Disputes between factions of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), chaired by Fayez al-Sarraj, have increased over calls for rallies against the cabinet in the capital Tripoli.   Sarraj’s deputy, Ahmed Maiteeq, has asked the military...

August 2020 - Turkey’s president called a maritime deal between Greece and Egypt “worthless” Friday and said his country would resume its aggressive oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean regardless of what its neighbours think. “We have started drilling...

August 2020 - The Libyan Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fathi Bashagha and the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir, have signed an agreement to cooperate in efforts to curb operations of corruption, money...

August 2020 - Libya's port blockade is set to keep the North African country's oil off the market until at least the fourth quarter of 2020, which, as devastating as it will be for Libyan oil revenues, could help reduce the expected global production glut by 65...

August 2020 Turkey was hoping that Russia’s presence in Libya was merely tactical and aimed at obtaining greater concessions in Syria. MOSCOW – Russia is moving to expand its sphere of influence in Africa through new military bases and increasing troop numbers, in a...

August 2020 - The US’ national security advisor Robert O’Brien went on to say Sirte and al-Jufra should be demilitarised. “We strongly oppose foreign military involvement, including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors, by all sides,” O’Brien said,...

August 2020 - Washington (CNN) As several countries come to the aid of warring factions in Libya, President Donald Trump has found himself caught in the middle of a group of strongmen he's forged close ties with during his presidency, prompting him to stay out of the...

August 2020 - The Spokesman for the Ahrar Al-Jufra Group (Jufra Freedom Group), Mahmoud Ghomais, reported that there have been dubious movements in the Al-Jufra and Sirte areas approximately a week ago, confirming in a television statement, that his group has...

August 2020 - New clashes broke out between militias following the arrest of several Chadian mercenaries who, according to the Libyan authorities, formed a “criminal group” that “looted and stole”. These mercenaries were under the leadership of Osama Jouili, head of...

August 2020 - Germany’s GIZ Libya launched an IT sector survey yesterday. It reported that the target of the study is to assess the employment potential in IT-related subsectors (e.g. mobile phone repair). The survey also aims to identify gaps in IT training and...

August 2020 - The foreign ministers of the state of Libya, the Republic of Malta, and the Republic of Turkey have released a joint statement, and said they held a meeting in Tripoli on 6 August 2020 to discuss the latest situation in Libya and the relations of joint...

August 2020 - The National Oil Corporation (NOC) reported on Tuesday the total loss of sales opportunities as a direct result of oil installation closures amounts to 7.841 billion dollars, during the 200 days of force majeure. The NOC, on its official Facebook page,...

August 2020 - CAIRO — Egypt and Greece on Thursday signed a maritime deal that sets the sea boundary between the two countries and demarcates an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights. The deal is a response to a similar agreement between Turkey and...

August 2020 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three individuals and a Malta-based company, accusing them of acting as a network of smugglers and contributing to instability in Libya. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement...

August 2020 We are pleased to publish an essay by Wolfgang Pusztai, an Austrian security and policy analyst, specialist of Libya.His thoughts are challenging indeed. Have a good read. La Vigie. In Libya there is an ongoing civil war since 2011 with different phases of...

August 2020 - WASHINGTON - Libya’s civil war and its role in regional stability have become more uncertain since June 20 when the Egyptian parliament authorized its troops to cross the border to help the forces of General Khalifa Haftar against Turkey-backed...

August 2020 - The Libyan Army Sunday claimed that Russian cargo planes had made new military shipments to forces loyal to putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Gen. Abdulhadi Dirah, spokesman for the army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, said...

August 2020 - Competition for natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean is pushing U.S. partners and allies towards open confrontation, the Wall Street Journal reported. A developing alliance between Israel, Greece and Egypt, the beneficiaries of the finds, is squaring...

August 2020 - In a move that illustrates new levels of boldness, Russian fighters have seized one of the largest oil fields in Libya. The Es Sider oil field was one of the main economic pipelines for the Government of National Accord. Over the last seven months, the...

August 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States should not stop United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from naming a new U.N. Libya envoy to replace Ghassan Salame who quit nearly five months ago, Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen said on...

August 2020 It’s a “scandal,” according to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres. Many more say it’s a mess. It’s also a critical battlefield for the future of the Arab world, according to engaged capitals. It’s Libya. The 2011 international military intervention in...

August 2020 - Turkish and Russian diplomats will hold meetings on Libya in Moscow soon, said Alaexey Zaytsev, deputy spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry. The talks would focus on “different aspects of the Libyan crisis,” Zaytsev said on Thursday, according...

August 2020 - Acting Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams warned that the Libyan people are increasingly scared that their future is being taken out of their hands by external actors, and that the...

August 2020 - In August 2011, as Libya’s rebels and Nato jets began an assault on Tripoli, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi delivered a speech calling on his supporters to defend the country from foreign invaders. “There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control...

August 2020 - ROME – The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Parliament condemned Turkey’s predatory behavior against Italian solideres in Libya, calling it “absurd.” Forty Italian soldiers working in a military field hospital, funded by Italy, in the Libyan city...

July 2020 - Libya's internationally recognised government in Tripoli will impose a full lockdown in areas of the country it controls, it said on Thursday, after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. Libya, split since 2014 between areas held by the Government of National...

July 2020 - Ankara deployed a few hundred troops and an estimated 3,500-3,800 Syrian mercenaries over the first quarter of the year, according to a Pentagon report released last week When Turkey’s president signed a security deal last year to back one of the sides in...

July 2020 - Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) has expressed concerns about increasing military presence at its facilities and the seizure of jet fuel at Zueitina. NOC said the number of mercenaries at the Ras Lanuf petrochemical facility had increased recently. This...

July 2020 - The city of Sirte has become the slogan of the war in Libya, the Turkish — backed Government of National Accord forces are preparing and mobilising fighters to take control of the city, while at the same time the Libyan National Army is reinforcing its...

July 2020 - The United Nations’ Libya mission on Monday said an international audit of the country’s two parallel central bank branches was ready to begin, in what is called a “critical step” in creating conditions for their eventual reunification. The United Nations...

July 2020 - The United States has threatened General Khalifa Haftar with sanctions over his ties with Russia, the Wall Street Journal reports, after Russian military contractors with ties to the Kremlin seized control of Libya's largest field and the oil export...

July 2020- The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, as the Chairman of General Assembly of General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), has agreed to increase the capital budget of the GECOL. The agreement came in a meeting Monday to discuss issues...

July 2020  Abd al-Salam al-Badri, deputy PM in eastern-based government, rails against Turkish efforts to claim natural gas resources in Mediterranean and urges Israel to oppose them In a rare interview with an Israeli newspaper, a senior Libyan official with the...

July 2020 - The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah asked the Schlumberger Company to facilitate and complete the development of a training center in Benghazi, in accordance with previous MoUs. This came during a meeting in London with...

July 2020 - Senior National Oil Corporation (NOC) delegation, led by its chairman Mustafa Sanalla, held what it called ‘‘several important technical meetings’’ in London with Petrofac, Schlumberger and EniProgetti, the NOC reported yesterday. The NOC said that these...

July 2020 The mass graves discovered in Tarhuna are a sad testament to a nation torn apart by Western intervention and civil war. While the withdrawal of General Khalifa Haftar’s forces from the town of Tarhuna, some 60 kilometres south of Tripoli, unleashed a wave of...

July 2020 - Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced yesterday that its chairman, Mustafa Sanalla, discussed Libya’s oil blockade, including the presence of foreign mercenaries at its oil installations, with UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazroui. During...

July 2020 - The Libyan Business Council announced yesterday the launch of a reform initiative and ‘‘platform’’ to support the private sector. It said that this done in an effort to take practical steps to crystallize a number of urgent reforms in accordance with the...

July 2020 - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Warfare has stopped - for now - in the Libyan capital, but long power blackouts caused by years of poor maintenance still cause misery in the scorching summer weather. The blackouts have led to protests, and armed men storming...

July 2020 - Ankara and Moscow announced that they agreed to consider establishing a joint working group to solve Libyan crisis, a joint statement said on Wednesday. The two countries "consider creating a Joint Working Group on Libya and convene for the next round of...

July 2020 - Following the death of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, Libya has struggled to rebuild state institutions and maintain order and stability. The transitional government ceded authority to the General National Congress (GNC) in 2012, but it encountered...

July 2020 - In a short update on the progress of maintenance work at Mitiga airport, Libya’s Airports Authority said the airport would reopen to flights in August. It gave no other details. The airport had suffered extensive bomb damage during Khalifa Hafter’s...

July 2020 - TRIPOLI, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Libya's UN-backed government and the rival eastern-based army are mobilizing forces in preparation for the fight to control the city of Sirte, some 450 km east of the capital Tripoli. The UN-backed government is trying to take...

July 2020 - In a recent article for the Atlantic Council, Nathalie Loiseau, a former French minister for European affairs and distinguished member of the European Parliament, expresses her disappointment about Turkey’s new adventurism in the Mediterranean basin in...

July 2020 - CAIRO, -OVER A CENTURY AGO, the founder of modern, secular Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, fought some of his first battles in the wadis and vilayets of north-eastern Libya. Now, the forces of the would-be founder of a new, pro-Islamist, neo-Ottoman Turkey,...

July 2020 - CAIRO, July 20 (Reuters) - Qatar’s state minister for defense affairs met on Monday with the Turkish defense minister and Libya’s minister of interior to discuss the latest developments in Libya, Qatar’s ministry of defense said on Twitter. Egyptian...

July 2020 - Egypt’s parliament has authorised the deployment of troops outside the country after the president threatened military action against Turkish-backed forces in Libya. President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has called the strategic coastal city of Sirte a "red line”...

July 2020 - The General Assembly of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) sacked the board of directors and appointed a new one in a meeting chaired by the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj on Sunday. The new board of directors include...

July 2020 - Since the 2011 NATO-backed revolt in Libya that ended 42 years of rule by strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi, the oil-rich North African country has been in perpetual turmoil. The latest phase began in April 2019, when military commander Khalifa Haftar and his...

July 2020 The meeting between Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj and Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio comes days after the UAE was accused of instructing warlord Haftar's forces to disrupt Libyan National Oil Corporation's output. Italy and Libya are...

July 2020 Chinese Charge d'Affaires to Libya Wang Qimin (R) and the Libyan Charge d'Affaires to Tunisia Mohamed Bin Mustafa sign certificate of donation, in Tunis, Tunisia, July 17, 2020. The Chinese Embassy in Libya on Friday handed over a batch of medical supplies...

July 2020 This paper examines Russia's strategy towards Libya post-2011. Russia has arguably been filling the vacuum left by NATO to further its interests regardless of the cost to international peace and stability. This policy outlook examines Russia's strategy...