Posted - 15th June 2021 Zuwara Municipal Council reported Wednesday that it held a consultative session to discuss the Zuwara – Ras Ajdir Free Zone project. The session discussed the latest developments on the project and the decision to assign a founding committee to...

Posted - 15th June 2021 Britain is ready to provide strategic support in renewable energies, free zones and transit trade, the Libyan Ministry of Economy and Trade reported James Cleverly, British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, as saying. This...

Posted - 14th June 2021 The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, stressed that the electricity file is a top priority for the GNU’s work, despite the lack of approval of the budget, saying that it is working to implement an...

Posted - 13th June 2021 GNU's Minister of Economy and Trade met with high ranking UK Representatives to address ways the United Kingdom can help in expediting the process of reopening European Airspace to Libya Mohamed Al – Hawaj, Minister of Economy and Trade, met...

Posted - 13th June 2021 The Governor of Libya’s Central Bank (CBL) Sadiq Al-Kabeer met with Michael Schaeffer of the World Bank to Libya in his office in Tripoli. According to the bank’s official Facebook page, the meeting focused on assessing cooperative efforts by...

Posted - 12th June 2021 Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangush has said his country wants a “strategic partnership” with the United Kingdom. Al-Mangush is currently in Libya during a visit by British Foreign Secretary to the Middle East and North Africa, James, to a...

Posted - 12th June 2021 U.S. energy giant GE expressed its full readiness to support the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) and stand with it in overcoming all the difficulties it faces, GECOL reported Wednesday. The statement came after a delegation from GE...

Posted - 12th June 2021 The Libyan government will support local manufacturing, the Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed Hwej told a meeting of business leaders at a factory in Misrata yesterday. The meeting was held to discuss domestic manufacturing, the obstacles...

Posted - 11th June 2021 Minister of Economy and Trade Muhammad al-Hawij on Wednesday met with the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya Muhammad Salim to talk over mechanisms for promoting trade exchange between the two countries. The meeting reviewed preparations for the...

Posted - 11th June 2021 The Libyan government announced yesterday the launch of the electronic tender process for the implementation of the fourth sector – Misrata to Ras Ajdir – of the Emsaad-Ras Ajdir motorway paid for by Italy. The government said the announcement...

Posted - 11th June 2021 Egyptian firms are eyeing a revival of business in Libya where a new government is starting work to rebuild the nation on Egypt's doorstep that was shattered by a decade of fighting and chaos. Before 2011, when Libya slid into conflict, the...

Posted - 11th June 2021 The Italian-Libyan Economic Forum, organised by the Italian Libyan Business Development Association (ILBDA), closed yesterday in Tunis on a high note with the announcement of future forums in the coming months as well as public/private...

Posted - 11th June 2021 Libya is to hold an international-Arab investment conference in Tripoli on 24 October this year. The news was revealed by the head of its General Union of Chambers of Commerce Mohamed Raeid. Raeid made the announcement during his speech on...

Posted - 11th June 2021 Speaking at the Libya Investment Forum 2021 yesterday, National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla talked of launching new projects to advance the Libyan oil sector, the renewal of out of service oil fields, getting the best benefit...

Posted - 10th June 2021 The Director of the General Directorate for the Protection of Diplomatic Missions, Wissam Bin Jamea met on Wednesday, with the Chargé d'Affairs of the Japanese Embassy in Libya, Masaki Amadera, the Special Coordinator for Libya and the Security...

Posted - 10th June 2021 Minister of Economy and Trade Muhammad al-Hawij on Wednesday met with the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya Muhammad Salim to talk over mechanisms for promoting trade exchange between the two countries. The meeting reviewed preparations for the...

Posted - 10th June 2021 With the ultimate goal of consolidating its influence in Libya and securing a key role in the region, Turkey has been applying a multilateral strategy, including partnerships in the defense sectors, the systemic build-up of commercial ties, and...

Posted - 10th June 2021 Ageela Saleh, the head of Parliament (the House of Representatives – HoR) yesterday called for an official meeting of the House on Monday 14 June at its Tobruk headquarters. The call to convene stated that the session will discuss the draft...

Posted - 10th June 2021 The Head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, confirmed that the NOC is awaiting approval of the budget allocated to the sector, in order to improve health insurance services for employees. This came during his meeting with...

Posted - 10th June 2021 Libya’s oil output is picking up again after a pipeline leak that caused a brief reduction was fixed. Production at the OPEC member’s Waha Oil Co. is gradually rising following repairs on the main pipeline between the Samah oil field and the Es...

Posted - 09th June 2021 Algerian Trade Minister Kamel Rezig stated that Libya and Algeria intend to boost their trade to $3 billion in the coming years. During a Libyan Arab Forum evaluation meeting last May, Razig stated that trading between the two nations had been...

Posted - 09th June 2021 Turkish energy company ENKA announced today that it had started structural work at its Tripoli power station project. The company reported today: ‘‘We are pleased to announce that on June 5th 2021, the first structural concrete was poured on...

Posted - 09th June 2021 Medef, France’s largest employer federation, wants to acquire large contracts within Libya’s reconstruction market. However, French groups are lagging behind Turkish and Italian firms. Medef (Mouvement des Entreprises de France), France’s...

Posted - 09th June 2021 The French Employers Association (Mouvement des entreprises de France / Movement of the Enterprises of France – MEDEF) wants to obtain large contracts in the Libyan reconstruction market, despite the decline in the fortunes of French companies...

Posted - 09th June 2021 The Algerian state-owned Sonelgaz Company announced that a group of its engineers is set to visit Libya to discuss investment in the maintenance of electricity networks. The Director of External Development at Sonelgaz, Wedad Hamro, said in a...

Posted - 09th June 2021 The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, has reviewed with the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya, Mohamed Tharwat and his accompanying delegation the bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the field of oil...

Posted - 08th June 2021 The Libyan Audit Bureau is continuing to update its project to start paying state-sector salaries through pre-paid cards. It is adding new services through the card made available by technological updates through its implementing partners. The...

Posted - 08th June 2021 Inside sources close to the Prime Minister claim that he will not wait for the Parliament to approve the budget, insisting that the GNU could move forward without approval from the parliament According to a source close to Abdelhamid Dabeiba,...

Posted - 08th June 2021 NOC executives met with senior officials from Repsol to discuss the Spanish firms ongoing operations in the country including: – Reducing gas emissions. – Establishing a well monitoring center at the National Oil Corporation headquarters. –...

Posted - 07th June 2021 The LIA is looking to work with the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee to safeguard Libya’s foreign assets, most of which are frozen because of sanctions first imposed in 2011. An evaluation of the wealth fund’s assets, carried out late...

Posted - 07th June 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) revealed last week that its net revenues in April 2021 from the sales of crude oil, gas, condensates and petrochemical by-products reached record levels of US$ 1,303,515,244.34 and Euros...

Posted - 07th June 2021 Tripoli, 6 June 2021(Lana) the Government of National Unity is taking part in the World Economic Forum, being convened in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg from 2-5 June 2021, with a high ranking delegation led by Minister of Finance Khalid...

Posted - 06th June 2021 On the side-lines of the official visit of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Tripoli yesterday, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Spain’s Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation and Libya’s General...

Posted - 05th June 2021 Adviser to the Minister of State for Economic Affairs, in the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), Ahmed Al-Ahjal announced a number of projects discussed by Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba, during his visit last Monday to Italy, and...

Posted - 05th June 2021 Libya’s Oil Minister Mohamed Aoun said Libya’s oil production before the 2011 revolution had reached an estimated at 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), and that the National Oil Corporation (NOC) plans to reach 1.5 bpd by the end of this year....

Posted - 05th June 2021 Libya desires to strengthen and develop relations with Algeria in various fields and at all levels, Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba said on Sunday during his visit to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers. Aldabaiba, leading a...

Posted - 04th June 2021 The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah and Spanish Repsol company discussed the implementation of the renewable energies project according to what had been previously agreed upon between the two bodies and...

Posted - 04th June 2021 Numerous outcomes of the Djerba International Business Forum (DIBF) held between 28-29 May in Djerba have come to light. These include the signing of a set of agreements in various fields to overcome all obstacles facing Libyan and Tunisian...

Posted - 04th June 2021 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reopened his country’s embassy in Libya on Thursday after it was closed for seven years because of civil war. Sanchez met with his Libyan counterpart, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, at the prime minister’s residence...

Posted - 04th June 2021 Libya’s Ministry of Economy and Trade revealed yesterday that a ministerial meeting was held on 1 June in Paris to discuss the development of the air fleet for Libyan airliners. The meeting included the Minister of Transportation, Mohamed...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 The President of Libya’s General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture (GLUCC), Mohamed Al-Raeed, signed an economic cooperation agreement with the Director of the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Wahiba Bahloul....

Posted - 03rd June 2021 When European Union Ambassador to Libya José Sabadell announced the reopening of the bloc’s mission to Libya on 20 May, two years after it was shut, the news received distinctly muted fanfare. With new geopolitical crises hitting headlines...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 Tunisair Express, a subsidiary of Tunis Air using smaller aircraft and covering shorter trips, announced Friday that it will resume flights to Libya from 6 June. The flights will be three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) from the...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 Dbeibah said the two countries were seeking “viable economic and technological programmes” and Libya would do “everything possible for these programmes to be implemented.” ROME - Statements by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi reflected...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 Italy and Libya will work together on illegal immigration and renewable energies, Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah told reporters at a joint press conference after meeting here on Monday. “Italy stands...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 The Biden administration has just appointed its first special envoy for Libya and sent Assistant Secretary of State Joey Hood to visit the North African nation. The Biden administration just appointed its first special envoy for...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 Nearly 430 Tunisian companies have registered to participate in the third edition of the international exhibition of construction and real estate development ‘‘SKYLINE 2021’’ (B2B) to be held from June 6 to 9, in Tripoli (Libya), Tunisia’s TAP...

Posted - 03rd June 2021 As part of his official visit to Rome, Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba visited Monday the Economic Forum entitled ”The New Libya” which was held at the headquarters of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International...

Posted - 01st June 2021 The Prime Minister, Abdul-Hamid Dabaiba, stressed the need for Libya to support all countries; to restore security on its territory, indicating that positive cooperation with Italy reflects the level of relations between the two countries....

Posted - 01st June 2021 May 31, 2021: The country is still divided with the GNA (UN created Government of National Accord) controlling the least territory while the HoR (the last elected government that disagreed with the formation of the GNA) now busy dealing with...

Posted - 01st June 2021 The CEO of Sonatrach Oil Group, Toufik Hakkar, confirmed Sonatrach’s readiness to develop eminent relations with its Libyan partner, in order to lay the foundations for a mutually successful economic partnership and to develop the petroleum and...

Posted - 01st June 2021 Brega Oil Company confirmed, on Sunday, that work will continue to maintain the liquefied gas tank No. 72 in its primary warehouse on the Airport Road in Tripoli, as part of its efforts to restore about 50% of its storage capacity, especially...

Posted - 01st June 2021 In his first visit to Italy since he entered office, Dabaiba pledged the Government of National unity’s support to counter illegal immigration from Libyan shores to Italy Draghi said Italy ‘remains at Libya’s side and supports it in this...

Posted - 30th May 2021 Algeria is preparing to reopen its land border crossing with Libya, and it is also in talks to open a maritime line with the port of Tripoli, Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum said on the sidelines of the visit of Libyan Prime Minister,...

Posted - 30th May 2021 Mustafa Sanalla, Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), confirmed that the NOC will collaborate with major international oil and gas companies to invest in the oil and gas sector in order to develop the oil industry and rehabilitate and...

Posted - 30th May 2021 Within the context of the continuing visits by senior executives of international oil and gas companies (NOC partners), Chairman of the Board of NOC, Mr. Mustafa Sanalla, received on Thursday 27th May 2021 in his office, a delegation from the...

Posted - 29th May 2021 The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) participated in Libya Energy Renaissance Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, which was organized by Schlumberger. NOC Chairman, Mustafa Sanallah, said on the sidelines of the Forum that Schlumberger had been a...

Posted - 29th May 2021 A meeting was held Wednesday at the Tripoli headquarters of the Libyan Airports Authority by various department heads with the Tunis office of KPMG. The meeting is to follow-up on previous meetings on KPMG preparing a feasibility study for an...

Posted - 29th May 2021 Petroleum Economist is partnering with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) and the Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) to present the Libya Investment Forum 2021 to be held on 9 June. NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla will provide a keynote...

Posted - 28th May 2021 The European Union and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) present a new study on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and Asset Recovery in Libya. This study sheds light on the significant damage being...

Posted - 28th May 2021 The oil and gas industry is a fundamental pillar of the Libyan economy and a major lure for international investment. This month we hear from Abdudayem Elgharabli, who discusses the key regulations that govern the sector. Could you give a basic...

Posted - 27th May 2021 The Biden administration is looking at reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, which has been closed since 2014, two years after the Benghazi attack. WASHINGTON — The United States is wading back into Libya, with the Biden administration...

Posted - 27th May 2021 The German ambassador to Libya Oliver Owcza affirmed his country’s eagerness to assist Libya in escaping its crisis by hosting the second Berlin Conference on Libya at the level of Foreign Ministers, due to be held on June 23 in Berlin. This...

Posted - 27th May 2021 On Tuesday, Head of the Libyan Audit Bureau, Khalid Shakshak and the Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun met to discuss the closing of the National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) accounts. They discussed the development of disclosure and transparency...

Posted - 26th May 2021 Libya’s House of Representatives (HoR) held a consultative session in Tobruk yesterday to discuss and vote on the proposed national budget of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in the run-up to the December elections later this year. The...

Posted - 26th May 2021 Turkey is negotiating the technical details of establishing a logistics base in Libya after completing the project phase, a high-level trade official said Tuesday. The base is expected to benefit the war-torn country as well as the rest of the...

Posted - 26th May 2021 Libya announced that Egyptian, Turkish, Italian, German and Tunisian companies have the biggest chance of taking part in the reconstruction of the country. In statements the Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Salama Al-Ghwail, said: "The...

Posted - 26th May 2021 The Minister of Industrial and Minerals plans to diversify the country's sources of income and supporting the private sector For decades, Libya’s industries have deteriorated due to the country’s reliance on oil, the country now imports 85...

Posted - 26th May 2021 MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Gazprom EP International has resumed crude oil production in Libya under a JV agreement with Wintershall Dea, Managing Director Sergey Tumanov said in an interview with Gazprom’s in-house magazine, adding that output at...

Posted - 26th May 2021 The Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Government of National Unity, Taher Al-Baour, held a meeting on Monday with the Spanish ambassador to Libya, Javier Garcia-Larrache, regarding coordinating a working visit, which a...

Posted - 25th May 2021 On Sunday, Egyptian Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, Assem Al-Jazzar said that Cairo is endeavouring to facilitate the entry and exit of funds, individuals, and goods between Egypt and Libya, as a prelude to the actual...

Posted - 25th May 2021 Ten years into Libya’s revolution, the proliferation of armed actors and a succession of sclerotic governments have taken their toll on the country’s security. Add organized crime and porous, ill-policed borders, and the country has become a...

Posted - 24th May 2021 The Head of the House of Representatives (HoR) Finance Committee, Omar Tantoush, says he expects a "yes" vote on the government's proposed draft budget in the Parliament's session to be convened on Monday. "The draft budget will be scheduled for...

Posted - 24th May 2021 CAIRO – 23 May 2021: The Egyptian Businessmen Association (EBA) formed a committee to prepare a list of companies that want to take part in reconstruction opportunities in Libya as the association plans to send a delegation to the neighboring...

Posted - 24th May 2021 Tobruk receives a commercial steamer with the first gas unit equipment on board for the city's Emergency Electricity Production Project, a massive step forward in addressing the country's electricity The port of Tobruk received a commercial...

Posted - 24th May 2021 The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah reviewed with the Qatari Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, boosting bilateral relations. The Qatari Foreign Minister arrived in Tripoli Sunday and met with Dbeibah in the presence...

Posted - 23rd May 2021 UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres called on the Libyan Parliament to approve the budget submitted by the Government of National Unity (GNU), and adopt a constitutional basis for the 24 December elections. He also urged the GNU to provide...

Posted - 23rd May 2021 TRIPOLI: The prime minister of Tunisia, which is struggling with a deep economic crisis, called Saturday for a relaunch of economic cooperation with Libya at the start of a two-day visit.“Our economies complement each other, and what is good for...

Posted - 23rd May 2021 What’s new? After years in which parallel rival governments fought an intermittent war, Libya has a new consolidated executive. On 10 March, parliament endorsed a national unity government headed by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba, which took...

Posted - 23rd May 2021 The Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Salama al-Ghwail, revealed in an exclusive statement to Libyan 218 TV that Libya needs to spend 600 billion dinars (US$ 134 bn) on reconstruction fover the next ten years. Meanwhile, Al-Ghwail pointed...

Posted - 23rd May 2021 The head of the GNU declared that Libya signed agreements with the Tunisian side on land, sea, and air transport, and that the two nations will evaluate and activate agreements signed earlier Abdelhamid Dabeiba, the Prime Minister of the...

Posted - 22nd May 2021 Thank you, Mr. President. And let me start and thank the Special Envoy, Special Envoy Kubis, for your briefing today. I’d also like to thank the Ambassador for India for your briefing, and welcome the Libyan PR for joining us, as well. Just over...

Posted - 22nd May 2021 A couple of weeks after a state institution in Tripoli was stormed by gunmen and a suicide bomber in 2018, I was sitting in a Tunis café with a friend who had been working in the building on the day of the terrorist attack. Aymenn believed that...

Posted - 21st May 2021 Libya’s parliament (the House of Representatives-HoR) announced yesterday that it is to hold an official session next Monday (24 May) in Tobruk. It said the session will discuss the draft 2021 budget and Sovereign Positions. Original budget...

Posted - 21st May 2021 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) said work on West Tripoli power plant with a capacity of 670 megawatts has started. GECOL said the project is part of the efforts to increase power generation capacity to decrease outages, adding...

Posted - 21st May 2021 Libya’s industrial sector lacks the appropriate support from the state like all industrial countries such as Japan and China or countries with similar economic conditions like Saudi Arabia. The statement was made by Libyan Minister of Industry...

Posted - 20th May 2021 On Tuesday, Libya’s Minister of Transportation Mohamed Salem Al-Shahoubi, met with Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi and his accompanying delegation, to discuss the reopening of Italian airspace and the resumption of direct...

Posted - 20th May 2021 Tripoli, 19 May 2021(Lana) Chairman of Finance Committee of the House of Representatives Omar Tantoush has said that the amended draft budget would be referred to the House of Representatives in the next two days. Tantoush said the Ministerial...

Posted - 20th May 2021 A Maltese delegation headed by its Deputy Foreign Minister Christopher Cutajar and ambassador to Libya Charles Saliba visited Benghazi yesterday. The Maltese delegation met the city’s Mayor, Chamber of Commerce and the eastern branch of the...

Posted - 20th May 2021 A webinar involving over 80 German companies on ‘‘Business Opportunities for German Companies in Libya’’ was held yesterday. The event was organized by the Arab German Chamber and included German State Minister Marco Wanderwitz and Germany’s...

Posted - 19th May 2021 The Egyptian Embassy in Tripoli will return at full capacity within three to six months, the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya Mohamed Tharwat said on Sunday. The ambassador's statement came during a meeting with officials of the Chamber of Commerce,...

Posted - 19th May 2021 The Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed Hwej discussed during a meeting with several experts in the fields of economy and investment and academics in Libyan universities yesterday the Investment Map of the Ministry and ways to implement it....

Posted - 19th May 2021 Although a new unity government was formed in Libya, ending years of division in state institutions, conflicts still plague some financial institutions that control the country’s economy, namely the central bank. Some financial and economic...

Posted - 19th May 2021 The Government of National Unity (GNU), decided to allocate in excess of 90 million dinars to the Ministry of Transport for the maintenance of airplanes of both Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways companies. The decision, which was issued on...

Posted - 19th May 2021 A senior US diplomat was in Libya Tuesday, marking the highest-level diplomatic visit by a US official in seven years. “Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood and Special Envoy for Libya Richard Norland visited Libya May...

Posted - 18th May 2021 The promotion of Richard Norland to be the Biden administration’s special envoy for Libya may seem relatively insignificant when Israel is exploding and the Palestinians are dying and the administration is focusing most of its Middle East...

Posted - 17th May 2021 On Monday, Tunisair announced that it had operated its first flights to Libya, after a seven-year halt caused by instability in the country. In a statement, the Tunisian airliner said that the flight took off from Carthage Airport towards Benina...

Posted - 17th May 2021 The head of the European Union’s mission to Libya, Ambassador José Sabadell, announced the reopening of the mission’s work from its headquarters in Tripoli, two years after its suspension. “Sabadell” – according to a tweet on his Twitter account...

Posted - 17th May 2021 With sovereignty restored in the form of a unified interim government, foreign investors are getting ready to re-engage with the country A degree of cautious optimism is returning to Libya. A country abundant in natural resources, it has not yet...

Posted - 17th May 2021 The Afrikaans-Tunisian Business Council has announced the number of companies that will be attending the Libyan-Tunisian exhibition on May 23-25. The Board said in a statement that more than 150 Tunisian companies have visited Libya with the aim...

Posted - 16th May 2021 Libya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sunni, discussed on Tuesday with his Egyptian counterpart, Muhammad Idris, supporting Libya in the transitional phase to promote lasting peace and stability in the country and the...

Posted - 16th May 2021 Cairo and Ankara have been on opposite sides for much of the last eight years. Ankara saw the rise of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power in 2013 and the imprisonment of its ally, former President Mohamed Morsi, as a blatant coup against the...

Posted - 16th May 2021 Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade Mohammad al-Hawaij received the Egyptian Chargé d'Affairs Mohammad Tharwat Selim in Tripoli to discuss a number of bilateral issues including the arrangements for the meeting of the Higher Joint...

Posted - 16th May 2021 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that the two countries should take joint efforts to create favorable conditions for the return of Russian business to Libya MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Safety of investments is important for the...

Posted - 16th May 2021 In April alone, exports to Libya ballooned 228% year-on-year to $263.3M, says head of business council Turkey's exports to Libya rose 58% year-on-year in the first four months of 2021 to $826 million, said a top Turkish trade group on Saturday....

Posted - 13th May 2021 The Investment Map for the south of Libya will include the new refinery, free zones, dates packing and solar energy projects. The revelation came during a meeting by the Minister of Economy Mohamed Hwej with representatives of the south to...

Posted - 13th May 2021 Libya and Malta have agreed to hold an economic forum between the chambers of commerce and businessmen councils in the two countries "to enhance and support bilateral cooperation in the fields of economy and trade," the Libyan Foreign Ministry...

Posted - 13th May 2021 Italy is to begin work on Tripoli International Airport and a coastal highway that will run through Libya from Egypt to Tunisia. Italy’s foreign minister Luigi di Maio said Italian companies had also started planning reconstruction projects for...

Posted - 12th May 2021 The Libya e-Commerce Expo will take place between 1-3 August 2021 at the Tripoli Fairgrounds. The exhibition includes several sectors, including: local and international companies, commercial banks, electronic payment companies, applications...

Posted - 12th May 2021 Misrata Chamber of Commerce announced on Sunday the opening of registration of public and private contracting companies to implement its projects. Companies can be local, foreign or JVs whose capital must exceed three million Libyan dinars to...

Posted - 12th May 2021 The creation of Libya’s interim government has instilled the international community with tacit hopes of a decade-long conflict finally coming to an end. As it is oftentimes the case with Libya, aspirations remain alive only insofar as they are...

Posted - 11th May 2021 The Department of State is pleased to announce that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland will now also serve in the capacity of U.S. Special Envoy for Libya in addition to Chief of Mission for Libya.  In his role as U.S. Special Envoy,...

Posted - 11th May 2021 Libyan Investment Authority, Tripoli, recorded a 2% increase in assets over the seven years to Dec. 31, 2019, to $68.4 billion, despite United Nations sanctions on Africa's largest sovereign wealth fund. The latest fund valuation, completed by...

Posted - 11th May 2021 The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah vowed in an address at the Tripoli University on Sunday to resume the education infrastructure projects in every way possible, saying "there are no real reasons why such projects have been suspended...

Posted - 11th May 2021 After years-long instability that heavily hit the influx of Egyptian workers to Libya, Egypt is likely to take a large share in the reconstruction projects in the war-torn country, according to Egyptian experts. "Libya will need at least 3...

Posted - 11th May 2021 Libya’s Oil and Gas Minister, Mohamed Oun, stated that as the country stabilizes, it will take two to three years for Libya to raise its average oil production levels to 2 million barrels per day. Things settled as soon as Libya emerged from the...

Posted - 11th May 2021 The Egyptian government is considering increasing its electricity exports to neighbouring Libya. Having become one of the main producers of renewable energy in North Africa, Egypt is now seeking outlets for its surplus production. Egypt and...

Posted - 11th May 2021 Mohamed Oun, the Minister of Oil and Gas, met with Ahmed Homa, the House of Representatives’ Second Vice President, and Hadi Al-Sagir and Abdeslam Al-Marabit, members of the House of Representatives for the South. The participants discussed a...

Posted - 10th May 2021 The fund aims to rehabilitate areas devastated by wars and remove the effects of armed conflict in the cities of Benghazi and Derna – Libya Al Ahrar Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) has announced the creation of a fund worth millions...

Posted - 10th May 2021 The United States ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, confirmed the support of the US and American companies for the health sector in Libya, including the provision of vaccines against the Coronavirus. This comes merely a day after Norland met...

Posted - 10th May 2021 The final results of the assessment of the assets of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) for 2019 were US$ 68.4 billion. The announcement was made during a ceremony on Wednesday attended by prime minister Aldabaiba, Central Bank Governor Sadek...

Posted - 10th May 2021 The Libyan Presidency Council announced Thursday the appointment of Hussein Muhammad Khalifa Al-A'ib as the country's new intelligence chief. The council said that Al-Aib effectively assumed his duties on May 5, the official date the decree was...

Posted - 07th May 2021 CAIRO - 4 May 2020: Director-General of African Airways, Khalil Al-Maji, announced that a delegation of the Egyptian authorities will visit Libyan airports in the coming days to resume flights, with 35 flights per week from the airports of...

Posted - 07th May 2021 The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Tuesday it had received 1.35 billion dinars on its account at the Central Bank of Libya, hoping it would receive the rest of its funds. The NOC said it had given 350 million dinars to Sirte and Arab...

Posted - 07th May 2021 Egypt and Turkey opened talks in Cairo on Wednesday, seeking to normalise relations after eight years of sharp differences over a wide range of bilateral and regional issues. The landmark, two-day talks, the first between the two Muslim nations...

Posted - 07th May 2021 The Algerian company hosted a delegation from Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) on May 4. NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla held talks with Sonatrach chairman Toufik Hakkar in Algiers. Sonatrach’s SIPEX unit works in Libya’s Ghadames Basin. NOC said...

Posted - 07th May 2021 RIYADH: Libya’s long dormant stock exchange will witness a number of public offerings this year, including two Islamic banks, Asharq Business reported. A real estate investment fund offering is also in the pipeline along with a number of...

Posted - 07th May 2021 The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio said Italian companies will start building Tripoli International Airport in few months as well as the highway from Tunisia borders with Libya to the Egyptian borders, adding that the Italian firms have...

Posted - 05th May 2021 TRIPOLI, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Libyan Minister of Health Ali Zanati on Sunday met with Kate English, deputy head of the British Mission to Libya, in the capital Tripoli, over the COVID-19 pandemic situation in and healthcare cooperation between the...

Posted - 05th May 2021 The Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Hwej, discussed during a meeting in Benghazi yesterday with the Chambers of Commerce in the eastern and southern regions their role in activating the Ministry’s investment map. The meeting included the...

Posted - 05th May 2021 Energy investments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are set to exceed $805 billion over the next five years, according to Saudi Arabia’s Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation. This is $13 billion more than the energy investments APICORP...

Posted - 05th May 2021 Libya and Italy have agreed to reactivate the Libyan-Italian Joint Economic Committee and review Libyan investments in Italy and stimulate trade exchange. This came during a meeting on Monday between the Minister of State for Economic Affairs,...

Posted - 05th May 2021 Tunisian ambassador to Libya, Asaad Al-Ajili reaffirmed his country’s desire to establish passenger and shipping lines with the city of Misrata. The new was revealed yesterday during his visit to the new Misrata Maritime Terminal  where he was...

Posted - 05th May 2021 TRIPOLI - No top-ranking Turkish official seems to have been left out of the high-level delegation that visited Tripoli to meet Libyan officials Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dispatched Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Defence...

Posted - 05th May 2021 The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, discussed with the UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, the impact of the lack of budget funds on the employees' living conditions at the oil sector. Sanallah and Kubis...

Posted - 03rd May 2021 Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aqeelah Saleh received Sunday the amended general budget proposed by the Government of National Unity (GNU) after it was turned down in a previous session last month. In his office in Al-Qubbah town...

Posted - 03rd May 2021 In a step intended to enhance the economic dialogue and cooperation between Egypt and Libya, the Chairman of the General Authority of Free Zones and Investments (GAFI) Mohamed Abdel-Wahab met Saturday with the head of the Libyan Investment...

Posted - 02nd May 2021 The Head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, has stated that British institutes and universities remain appropriate places for training in the gas and oil industry. The media office of the NOC reported that Sanallah held...

Posted - 02nd May 2021 Egyptian PM Mostafa Madbouly and Abdel-Hamid Al-Dabaiba, the head of the Libyan National Unity Government, oversaw the signing of 11 documents to enhance cooperation Mostafa Madbouly: Egypt’s Ministry of Aviation has issued instructions to allow...

Posted - 01st May 2021 Libya’s oil production target of 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of 2021 depends on parliament approving the national budget quickly, Oil Minister Mohamed Oun told Reuters on Thursday. Libyan oil output crashed last year when forces...

Posted - 01st May 2021 The Building Libya Online Exhibition 19-12 May, the first construction and interiors show since 2012, is an online global hub to gather thousands of international construction market professionals and actors to showcase their products to buyers...

Posted - 30th April 2021 The General Assembly of the Supreme Court yesterday elected Abdalla Burzeza as the new Head of the Supreme Court. This will presumably have to be confirmed by the HoR and the HSC, but it is expected that they will rubber stamp it in an effort...

Posted - 30th April 2021 Current Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor Saddek El-Kaber has not been nominated to continue on in his role as Governor of the CBL. The House of Representatives (HoR) committee set up to propose names to head Libya’s sovereign authorities...

Posted - 30th April 2021 ROME: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday that Italian firms “may” help rebuild Benghazi airport, and confirmed that Italy’s project to extend a coastal motorway from Libya’s border with Tunisia to its one with...

Posted - 30th April 2021 Italy has reopened its consulate in Benghazi and appointed Carl Batori as Consul General, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio confirmed. Di Maio said in a briefing before the Italian Parliament on Wednesday that attention will remain...

Posted - 30th April 2021 Turkey, Egypt, Russia, the UAE and some European nations have expanded their influence in the war-ravaged country As US President Joe Biden nears his 100th day in office, the absence of a clear White House policy towards Libya has allowed...

Posted - 30th April 2021 The House of Representatives (HoR) committee set up to propose names to head Libya’s sovereign authorities has drawn up a lengthy list of names for the 10 positions and presented them to HoR president Ageela Saleh on 25 April. The names were...

Posted - 30th April 2021 The new Libyan leadership’s early moves on the international stage are leaving the impression that it’s open for business with anyone. But that image comes with some caveats. After receiving a number of European leaders and dignitaries since...

Posted - 30th April 2021 The newly-formed Libyan government is planning to set up funds to reconstruct the country's war-ravaged cities and regions, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said Wednesday. Dbeibah's remarks came during a cabinet meeting in the capital...

Posted - 29th April 2021 Over the past three weeks many European Union officials have queued up in the capital of Libya, Tripoli, to offer their support to the country's newly-elected interim authority, the Government of National Unity (GNU), and Prime Minister Abdul...

Posted - 29th April 2021 Given the ongoing imbalance between global oil supply and demand in the wake of the major waves of Covid-19 that hit the world last year, news that Libya is now targeting 1.45 million barrels per day of oil output by the end of this year, 1.6...

Posted - 29th April 2021 What are the implications of last week’s visit by Egypt’s prime minister to Libya? In the first high-level visit of its kind since 2010, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli headed for Libya last week at the head of an 11-member ministerial...

Posted - 29th April 2021 Russia is seeking to preserve its influence in Libya through a number of innovative approaches. On 15 April, Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah travelled to Moscow for the first time. During his trip, Dbeibah engaged with senior...

Posted - 28th April 2021 Chairman of the Management Committee of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco), Fathallah Ihtita confirmed that the company has resumed operations, after the Government of National Unity (GNU) provided it with the necessary funds. During the...

Posted - 28th April 2021 Regus is to open its first flexible office space centre in Tripoli this summer. It plans to open three more across the country and expansion plans for the cities of Benghazi, Misrata, Tobruk and Sabha. The company believes that there is a gap...

Posted - 28th April 2021 Tunis Air announced yesterday that it is postponing the resumption of its flights to Libya until 15 May. Flights were supposed to resume today. It cited the increased spread of the Coronavirus in Tunisia as the reason for the postponement of...

Posted - 27th April 2021 A delegation of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), arrived in Sirte to participate in the fourth meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) scheduled for Monday. The JMC will discuss the mechanism and agreements for...

Posted - 27th April 2021 The Committee formed by the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity’s decree No. 47 of 2021 met for the first time in the Cabinet of the Ministry of Finance in Tripoli’s capital, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Finance....

Posted - 27th April 2021 Egyptian sources close to the committee concerned with the Libyan file revealed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed website about Egyptian moves to hold a meeting between the head of the NUG, Abdul-Hamid Dbaiba, and the commander of the aggression, Haftar,...

Posted - 27th April 2021 The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) has lifted force majeure on Hariqa oil port and instructed operating firms to resume production and exports. The decision came after a meeting for the Chairman of NOC, Mustafa Sanallah, and heads of...

Posted - 26th April 2021 The Head of the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce in Egypt, Ibrahim Al-Arabi, confirmed that a delegation of Egyptian businessmen is prepared to visit Libya sometime between June and July of this year. The reason for the visit hinges...

Posted - 26th April 2021 On Saturday, the Tunisian Minister of Transport and Logistics, Moez Chakchouk, affirmed his country’s willingness to facilitate the opening of a passenger and cargo maritime line between the ports of Misurata, Sfax, and Goulette (Halq...

Posted - 26th April 2021 The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah has urged all ministers and state ministers as well as his deputies to attend the third meeting of the cabinet of the Government of National Unity, which will be on Monday in Benghazi. A letter by...

Posted - 26th April 2021 Libya is studying the construction of oil refineries in various regions through local and foreign Public Private Partnership (PPP) ventures. The news was revealed yesterday after its Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Hwej, held a meeting...

Posted - 24th April 2021 LINK TO FULL REPORT AT BOTTOM OF POST New World Bank report details how the country’s trajectory for economic recovery will remain linked to the security and political environment; implementing urgent reforms will increase the likelihood of a...

Posted - 24th April 2021 Libya's new oil and gas ministry has agreed to pay 1.048bn Libyan dinars ($232.5mn) to state-owned NOC to settle a funding dispute that has disrupted 280,000 b/d of crude production capacity. The ministry said it has already transferred 500mn...

Posted - 24th April 2021 The Egyptian government recently released dozens of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners. Although it is said to be unrelated to the opening up of communication channels between Ankara and Cairo, the act is rather meaningful in terms of timing. Egypt,...

Posted - 24th April 2021 The Tunisia-Africa Business Council has announced the organization of a large Exhibition at the international fair in Tripoli (Libya) from May 23 to 25, after the great success and positive impact of the 3rd Tunisian-Libyan economic forum held...

Posted - 24th April 2021 Libya’s Health Minister Ali Al-Zanati, and Hala Zayed, Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of health in which the two parties agreed: Egypt is to treat Libyans on the same basis as...

Posted - 23rd April 2021 A Libyan government fund to finance the reconstruction of areas devastated during the country's civil war needs as much as $50 billion over the next three years, officials said this week. Libya's unity government established earlier this year...

Posted - 23rd April 2021 Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi gave directives on Thursday to provide Egyptian assistance to support Libya in all fields to implement the country’s political roadmap until the elections in December, the Egyptian presidency stated....

Posted - 23rd April 2021 Libya and Egypt agreed numerous ways to increase economic cooperation. This came during a meeting between Libya’s Economy and Trade and Industry Ministers with the Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry. The meeting was held on the side-lines...

Posted - 23rd April 2021 Italy will continue the establishment of a coastal road that connects Libyan borders with Egypt to its borders with Tunisian, said Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Wednesday in media remarks.   "We have many agreements with Libya that...

Posted - 23rd April 2021 MYTILINEOS’ representatives recently visited Libya and met with the Mayor of Tobruk. According to a Twitter post, they discussed a natural gas power plant with a total capacity of more than 650MW that the Greek company is building in the...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, accompanied by a team of ministers, visited Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss economic and political cooperation with the Libyan Government of National Unity. It followed instructions from Egyptian...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 The Italian-Libyan Business Development Association (ILBDA) announced the holding of the First Economic Forum for Libya in Tunis on 7 and 8 June. Under the banner “Together We Go Further”, the ILBDA said the event will be dedicated to business...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 Ankara’s two critical deals with Tripoli remain in limbo even though Libya’s new prime minister raised Turkish spirits during a much-hyped visit this week. A high-profile visit by Libya’s new interim prime minister, complete with economic...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 London — Libya's National Oil Corporation is banking on France's Total to help it boost output and assist with the maintenance of some of its oil infrastructure, it said April 20. NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla met with Total CEO Patrick...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 Egypt and Libya signed memorandums of understanding in the Libyan capital Tuesday during an official visit by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli. The memorandums include the resumption of civilian flights between the two countries. "I...

Posted - 22nd April 2021 A United Nations panel of experts repeated its call to impose sanctions on subsidiaries of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), citing mismanagement, a lack of transparency and other issues at the embattled sovereign wealth fund. The LIA,...

Posted - 20th April 2021 TRIPOLI:  Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) declared force majeure on Monday on exports from the port of Hariga and said it could extend the measure to other facilities due to a budget dispute with the country's central bank. Daily lost income...

Posted - 20th April 2021 The Libyan Business Council (LBC) announced today that it is to hold a virtual meeting with Ukrainian companies. The date is yet to be set. The meeting will cover business sectors in: 1- Industry 2- Supply 3- Contracting and construction 4-...

Posted - 20th April 2021 ANKARA (Turkey), April 19 (SeeNews) - Turkey's Ronesans Holding has signed several memorandums of understanding (MoU) with Libya to build a new international terminal at Tripoli airport, Istanbul-based media. The MoU also envisage the...

Posted - 20th April 2021 Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly will visitthe Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday for talks with the leadership of the North African country, mediareported. The visit of the Egyptian prime minister to Libya will be the first trip of...

Posted - 20th April 2021 Bosnia and Herzegovina reopened its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday, the Libyan Embassy in Sarajevo said in a statement.  Visa services have resumed at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Libya, the statement said. The...

Posted - 20th April 2021 A delegation representing the Korean Corporation, Hyundai, having held a meeting with the Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, confirmed the Corporation’s readiness to return to work in Libya, putting in place certain activities in both...

Posted - 19th April 2021 The Central Bank of Libya said it would liquidate the second installment of the loans given to the Libyan commercial banks, adding in a meeting headed by the Governor, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir, and a number of heads of administrations, that the...

Posted - 19th April 2021 The Prime Minister of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, is going to visit the eastern city of Benghazi and hold a government meeting there in the presence of all ministers, a spokesman has revealed. Muhammad Hammouda did not say when the visit will...

Posted - 19th April 2021 Libyan Oil Minister, Muhammad Aoun said oil revenues will be transferred to the account of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) at the Libyan Foreign Bank, until they agree on naming officials of the sovereign positions. The account of the NOC...

Posted - 18th April 2021 The member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), Abdelkader Al-Huwaili, said the replacement of UNSMIL officials and Head had negatively affected the political dialogue track as well as the work of the Legal and Constitutional...

Posted - 18th April 2021 The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) granted Libyan commercial banks today a loan of LD 5 billion to help ease the bank clearance process and the country’s bank liquidity crisis. The grant was the second instalment. The CBL made the announcement...

Posted - 18th April 2021 Italy has found its way back to Libya. Under this title, the Atlantic Council, an Atlantic American think tank in the field of international affairs, published an article on Italy’s chances of returning to the Libyan scene in political and...

Posted - 18th April 2021 Libya's Ambassador to the United States, Wafa Bugaighis, has called on Washington to engage more effectively in the peace process in Libya by enhancing its diplomatic presence and reopening its embassy in the country. Bugaighis raised the...

Posted - 18th April 2021 As a part of Libya's General Electricity Company's efforts to address the nation's electricity crisis, Ubari conversion plant will be reintroduced to the public grid Libya’s General Electricity Company (GECOL) announced that Ubari’s conversion...

Posted - 17th April 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced yesterday that its March oil revenues reached a record US$ 2,052,178,786.17. It attributed the increase of March sales to the fact that revenues for February reflected 28 days in the...

Posted - 17th April 2021 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that the two countries should take joint efforts to create favorable conditions for the return of Russian business to Libya   MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Safety of investments is important for the...

Posted - 17th April 2021 The UN Security Council unanimously voted on Friday to send up to 60 international monitors to Libya and called on its new unity government to plan for free and inclusive elections on December 24. The council adopted Secretary General Antonio...

Posted - 16th April 2021 "One of the reasons such contracts are being awarded directly to #Turkish companies without other nationalities being able to compete, has to do with the $18bn backlog of outstanding #Turkish projects that have been suspended since Feb 2011,"...

Posted - 16th April 2021 Greece opened a consulate on Tuesday in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi, as European countries sought to renew their diplomatic footprint inside the north African country. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced the move during...

Posted - 16th April 2021 Tunis Air confirmed yesterday its resumption of flights to Libya as of 27 April. Initially, there will be three weekly flights from Tunis Carthage airport to Tripoli and two weekly flights to Benghazi. As of 14 May, these will increase to...

Posted - 16th April 2021 Erman Ilıcak, a billionaire known for his close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed agreements to build three power plants, an airport terminal and a shopping mall in Libya. Ilıcak’s Rönesans Holding won the contracts after...

Posted - 16th April 2021 Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, declared that Greece and Libya had agreed to resume the maritime border demarcation talks immediately. This came after his meeting with the Head of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, in...

Posted - 16th April 2021 The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, has arrived in the Russian capital, Moscow, on a formal visit accompanied by a delegation that includes the Foreign Minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, and the Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohammed Oun, as...

Posted - 16th April 2021 Libya’s newly announced Minister of Gas and Oil, H.E. Mohamed Oun announced that the country’s oil sector will receive sufficient funding to advance oil facilities and increase its output. A budget of approximately $1.6 billion has been...

Posted - 16th April 2021 A member of the Presidential Council (PC), Abdullah Al-Lafi, received on Wednesday in Tripoli the ambassador of the Netherlands to Libya, Lars Tummers. Al-Lafi praised the role of the Netherlands in supporting the outcome of the Berlin...

Posted - 15th April 2021 French Oil Major Total’s CEO Patrick Pouyanné will meet with Libya’s newly formed unity government on 20 April to discuss the company’s involvement in Libya’s oil and gas sector, marking the start of an economic and sectoral transformation in...

Posted - 15th April 2021 IWG, the world's leading flexible workspace organisation has secured new franchise partners in Togo, Libya and Guinea to fuel the group's rapidly growing worldwide network in Africaand is also set to launch in Gabon.    Togo is one of the...

Posted - 15th April 2021 The Tunisia-Africa Business Council and the Sebha Chamber of Commerce and Industry (660 km south of Tripoli) are organizing next May a forum and an exhibition of Tunisian products in this Libyan city. In fact, 250 Tunisian companies are...

Posted - 14th April 2021 Libya is discussing with Turkey the setting up of a mechanism for the return of Turkish companies to resume some important contracted, but stalled, projects, restore contractual balance on these contracts, and conclude new agreements for other...

Posted - 14th April 2021 From the first day of its commencement of work, the National Unity Government promised to turn to the inside and solve the problems that plagued the citizen, perhaps the most important of which is the payment of late salaries and cash,...

Posted - 14th April 2021 Since the fall of Muammar el-Qaddafi, numerous countries intervened in the conflict looking to protect or advance their own interests, but none had the capacity to bring solutions. Their meddling and influence only perpetuated the problems. A...

Posted - 14th April 2021 Libya’s Public Projects Authority has launched its online projects platform. The interactive platform allows for follow-up and reporting on the status of the countries multi-billion construction projects. The Authority reported that the...

Posted - 14th April 2021 The Governor of Libya's Central Bank expresses optimism in the country's new government and calls for the return of foreign companies The governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Sadiq Al- Kabir, stated that whoever makes the first move in...

Posted - 14th April 2021 Turkish conglomerate Rönesans Holding has signed several memorandums of understanding (MoU) with Libya to build a new international terminal at Tripoli airport, three power plants and a shopping mall. The agreements were signed by Rönesans and...

Posted - 12th April 2021 Tunisia aims for a share of Libya's new government's plans to spend on development projects as the country moves towards peace and stability. "Investment fields in Libya are wide and there are great opportunities to contribute to the...

Posted - 12th April 2021 Tunis Air flights to Libya will resume in the last week of April, Tunisian Transport and Logistics Minister Moez Chakchouk has been quoted as saying by Tunisian media. Minister Chakchouk had been speaking on Monday to the Committee on the...

Posted - 12th April 2021 EXCLUSIVE: Eng. Hassan Allam, Group Chief Executive Officer of Hassan Allam Holding, reveals the firm’s future expansion plans and objective for subsidiaries to grow in Libya and Iraq. Egypt’s leading construction firm, Hassan Allam Holding,...

Posted - 9th April 2021 Tripoli, Greece (PortSEurope) April 9, 2021 – Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reopened Greece’s embassy in Libya last Tuesday, and called for a reset of relations soured by the Tripoli government’s 2019 maritime boundary agreement with...

Posted - 9th April 2021 A shipment of 57,600 doses of AstraZeneca anti-Coronavirus vaccines arrived at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport last night. This follows the arrival in Tripoli of the first ever batch on 4 April consisting of 101,252 doses of Sputnik V vaccines that...

Posted - 9th April 2021 US President Joe Biden's administration is set to formulate a new strategy in Libya that differs from the one implemented by former President Donald Trump. Biden hopes to revise the vague and ambiguous discourse adopted by Trump regarding the...

Posted - 9th April 2021 The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s (LPDF) Legal Committee met yesterday in an effort to break impasse in establishing a legal basis for the planned 24 December 2021 elections. In his opening remarks to the meeting, UNSMIL head Jan Kubis...

Posted - 8th April 2021 A high-level Chinese business delegation is arriving in Libya to consult with the Libyan authorities, companies, and business leaders, in order to qualify them to participate in the plans of the new Libyan government for reconstruction and...

Posted - 8th April 2021 ROME: Libya’s prime minister has said he is confident that he can unify his war-torn country. “Before (the) 2011 (revolution), Libya was a united country. I am convinced that it will go back to being united again,” Abdul Hamid Dbeibah told...

Posted - 8th April 2021 Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah called for closer co-operation with the UAE during his visit to Abu Dhabi. Mr Dbeibah was received at Qasr Al Hosn on Wednesday by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy...

Posted - 8th April 2021 The Libyan Deputy Minister of Transportation and Aviation, Hisham Abu Shakiwat, discussed Wednesday with the ambassador of Spain to Libya, Francisco Javier, facilitating the procedures required of Libyan commercial aviation students once they...

Posted - 7th April 2021 The Head of the Presidential Council, Mohammad Menfi, discussed on Tuesday, with the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, ways to activate the work of the joint committee, especially the Libyan-Italian Friendship Treaty signed in 2008. During...

Posted - 7th April 2021 The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, called on Libya to scrap the illegal 2019 maritime boundaries agreement with Turkey during his first visit to the country on Tuesday. Mitsotakis said in a joint press briefing with Libyan Prime...

Posted - 7th April 2021 The Chairman and members of the Board of Directors of the General Electricity Company discussed this morning, Tuesday, with the General Director of the Greek Mataka Inter National Company and his accompanying delegation, the Tobruk gas station...

Posted - 7th April 2021 The prime ministers of Italy and Greece on Tuesday joined a growing number of foreign leaders visiting Libya as it seeks to emerge from a decade of post-revolution chaos under a UN-sponsored peace process. Italy's Mario Draghi, whose country...

Posted - 7th April 2021 Libya on Tuesday received the Italian prime minister Mario Draghi in what is the Italian premier's first trip outside Italy. Draghi met with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in Tripoli on Tuesday. The meeting comes as Italy tries to reassert...

Posted - 7th April 2021 It’s been two months since the two rival Libyan governments agreed on a merger, and Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh was selected by the GNA (UN created Government of National Accord) and HoR (the last elected government that disagreed with the formation of...

Posted - 7th April 2021 Visiting Libya with his German and Italian counterparts, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French minister of foreign affairs, stressed that Europeans were pleased to see "efforts bear(ing) fruit… meetings in Paris and Palermo, and a conference in Berlin…...

Posted - 6th April 2021 A delegation from Italy’s ENAV, led by the CEO Paolo Simioni, met in Tripoli today with the Libyan Transport Minister Mohamed Al-Shahubi and the head of the Libyan Civil Aviation Authority Mustafa Benammar, to plan the main activities to...

Posted - 6th April 2021 Prime Minister Robert Abela met the Prime Minister of the Libyan National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, during a visit to Tripoli on Monday. The two Prime Ministers discussed themes of common interest, including the economy, security...

Posted - 6th April 2021 European Council President Charles Michel arrived in Tripoli Sunday, as Libya seeks to build a unity government and end a decade of chaos following a NATO-backed 2011 revolt. No details have been released of Michel’s visit, which comes as...

Posted - 6th April 2021 The energy markets have seen several major upsets during the 21st century yet one can state fairly confidently that the market slump of 2020-2021 has triggered the most damage of them all. This is also true for international licensing where...

Posted - 6th April 2021 During a visit to Libya, Malta's Robert Abela announced his country's intention to reopen its embassy in Libya and welcome back Libyan citizens in Malta A joint press conference was held today with Libya’s prime minister Abdul Hamid Debaiba and...

Posted - 6th April 2021 Libya’s Ministry of Housing and Construction has launched a war rubble and ruins clearance programme in coordination with the General Works Company in the war-affected southern areas of Tripoli. As part of the plan, the Minister of Housing and...

Posted - 5th April 2021 A meeting was held on Thursday (1 April) in Tripoli to discuss how a sustainable partnership between the Libyan private and public sectors could be reached, the Libyan Business Council (LBC) reports. The aim of the meeting was to create a...

Posted - 5th April 2021 CAIRO –3 April 2020: On Thursday, the Government of National Unity in Libya announced the cancellation of all decisions and procedures issued after March 10 by the Governments of the National Accord(GNA), the Interim Government, and their...

Posted - 5th April 2021 Italian airspace will soon be reopened to Libyan aviation, the Libyan embassy in Rome reported yesterday. It said this comes within the framework of support and affirmation of Libyan-Italian relations, and to activate joint cooperation between...

Posted - 5th April 2021 The committee for receiving and screening the files of candidates for the highly contested and politically sensitive sovereign positions announced the start of accepting files on Thursday. Tobruk: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 The Committee was...

Posted - 5th April 2021 Libya’s Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dabaiba wants to clean up the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the country's government-managed sovereign wealth fund. According to sources, he is preparing to dismiss Ali Mahmoud Hassan, its chairman....

Posted - 5th April 2021 At its now regular weekly Thursday press conference, the new unified Libyan government Spokesperson, Mohamed Hamuda said: All decisions/decrees issued by the outgoing Tripoli based Faiez Serraj administration and the eastern based Abdalla...

Posted - 5th April 2021 The development and improvement of Libya’s telecommunications and technology sector was the subject of discussion between Faisel Gergab, Chairman of the Libyan Post Telecommunication and Information Technology Holding Company (LPTIC), and...

Posted - 5th April 2021 Mohamed Hwej, Libya’s Minister of Economy and Trade chaired a meeting that included a number of Chinese governmental and private companies yesterday to discuss ways of cooperation in the fields of investment and infrastructure development in...

Posted - 02nd April 2021 Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) held a meeting with the new government on March 31 to discuss the importance of funding the company. NOC was represented by chairman Mustafa Sanalla, who met Vice President Ramadan Ahmed Boujnah and Minister of...

Posted - 02nd April 2021 Tripoli, 1 April 2021(Lana) President of Presidency Council Mohamed Al Mnefi on Thursday met a number of experts to discuss a basis and rules for national reconciliation in Libya. On table of discussion was the draft decision for establishment...

Posted - 02nd April 2021 Athens, 1 April 2021(Lana) Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to be flanked with his Foreign Minister Nikolaos Dendias, will pay a visit to Tripoli on Tuesday April 6,  during which he is expected to announce return of Greek embassy to...

Posted - 02nd April 2021 Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, has discussed with the Chinese ambassador to Libya Wang Qimin the return of Chinese companies operating in the fields of oil, gas, energy and construction, and their...

Posted - 01st April 2021 As the new Libyan Government of National Unity is endeavoring to unify State institutions and pacify the country, queues are being formed for the opening of diplomatic representations in the North African country. So, after France reopened its...

Posted - 01st April 2021 Tripoli International Airport is expected to be completed by Italian Aeneas consortium by 2022, Italian Ambassador to Tripoli Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi said yesterday. Buccino statement was reported by Libya’s Economy Ministry after the...

Posted - 01st April 2021 Libya may be able to maintain its current level of oil production of around 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) until the end of the year as the oil sector is finally receiving enough funding for field maintenance and development, Libya’s Oil...

Posted - 01st April 2021 Libya’s energy industry is on track to get enough money from the government for the OPEC member to sustain its crude production throughout the year, according to the new oil and gas minister. The country, which has been in civil war for about...

Posted - 01st April 2021 The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, said 80% of the Libyan institutions had been unified in less than a month, adding to Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, that Libya will be always unified. Dbeibah added that the government,...

Posted - 31st March 2021 The Chinese ambassador to Libya, Li Zhiguo, said his country wants to reopen its embassy in Tripoli as soon as possible to start working from inside the country so that there can be more cooperation. The remarks came in a meeting with the...

Posted - 31st March 2021 The Minister of Planning, Fakher Boufrana, has held discussions with the resident representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Gerardo Noto, within the framework of joint cooperation between the Ministry and the UNDP....

Posted - 31st March 2021 London, 30 March 2021: Speaking during the Third German Libyan Economic Expert Forum held in Tripoli yesterday, National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman, Mustafa Sanalla said that despite these difficult times the world is going through due to...

Posted - 31st March 2021 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning a visit to Libya next week as Athens appears to be ready to fully restore its relations with the North African country. Greece appears to be ready to claim a role in the future of the country for...

Posted - 31st March 2021 TRIPOLI, Libya — In a neighborhood once beset by violence and death, Bus 70 crosses an intersection and pulls up by the roadside. A militia fighter in fatigues gets off. A mother and her teenage son with green headphones get on. The doors...

Posted - 30th March 2021 Libya’s Ministry of Transport has increased fees payable at its ports by 235 percent as of yesterday. The large increase reflects the devaluation in January of the Libyan dinar from LD 1.40 to 4.48 per US dollar. The increase of fees is...

Posted - 30th March 2021 (ANSA) - ROME, 30 MAR - Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, speaking to TG2 Post, said Italy plans to open a consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "Allow me to say that a year ago, at the Berlin conference, no one believed in that peace process....

Posted - 30th March 2021 Italian Ambassador states that his government will take the possibility of reopening EU airspace to Libya under advisement In a meeting between Libya’s new transport minister Mohamed Shahubi and Italy’s ambassador to Libya Buccino Grimaldi,...

Posted - 30th March 2021 France reopened its embassy in Tripoli on Monday after a seven-year closure, in a show of support for Libya’s new unity government. A decade after French forces helped topple strongman Muammar Gaddafi, FRANCE 24 takes a look at France’s...

Posted - 30th March 2021 Tripoli, 29 March 2021(Lana) Minister of Planning Fakher Bufarna met on Monday the UN Development Program Resident Representative Gerardo Noto, to discuss cooperation between the UN and the Ministry. The UN official gave a notion about the UN...

Posted - 30th March 2021 What a UN report on Libya reveals about the nexus of private security operators and illicit financial flows. he allegations made in a United Nations (UN) report released in March had the makings of a bad action movie: in the summer of 2019,...

Posted - 30th March 2021 London, 29 March 2021: This morning, the Third German-Libyan Economic Experts Forum, organized by the General Union of Libyan Chambers of Commerce, started at the Radisson Blu Mahary Hotel in Tripoli. The forum will witness the presence of the...

Posted - 30th March 2021 The Minister of Transport, Mohamed Salem Al-Shahoubi, discussed with the Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, methods to activate various projects contracted in relation to Tripoli International Airport, with the consortium of...

Posted - 29th March 2021 Italy’s Tripoli ambassador, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi, met with Libya’s Transport Minister, Mohamed Shahubi today to discuss activating projects contracted to Italian companies. The discussions, which included other relevant agencies, included...

Posted - 29th March 2021 As a part of its effort to support Libya’s new Government of National Unity (GNU), the US intends to expand on its investments in the north African nation according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya and American Ambassador to Libya,...

Posted - 28th March 2021 An official agreement was signed this week by the Director-General of the Libyan Customs Authority, Suliman Ali and his Tunisian counterpart Youssef Zouaghi to officially resume customs work at the border crossing of Ras Jedier....

Posted - 28th March 2021 A surge of high-profile diplomatic visits to Libya’s new unity government have begun, with foreign powers keen to signal support for the fledgling administration. The Government of National Unity, installed earlier this month, is the country’s...

Posted - 27th March 2021 On 10 March 2021, Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Prime Minister Abd al-Hamid Dabaiba, won a parliamentary vote of confidence with a sweeping majority. This is the country’s first new government since 2015, when the interim...

Posted - 27th March 2021 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the new Libyan Government of National Unity, Najla al-Mangoush, held a joint press conference yesterday with the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and Italy during their joint visit to Tripoli. In her...

Posted - 27th March 2021 Libya’s Transport Minister, Mohamed Shahubi said that development projects are one of his government’s top priorities and that projects that directly affect the lives of citizens in the field of transportation and the treatment of bottlenecks...

Posted - 26th March 2021 ANKARA - The European Council on Friday lifted sanctions on former prime minister of the internationally unrecognized General National Congress of Libya. The council said in a statement that Khalifa Ghwell was on the list of individuals and...

Posted - 26th March 2021 U.S companies are able and willing to enter the Libyan market and in the near future, Deputy Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya (AmCham Libya), Ahmed al-Ghazali, told Libya Herald yesterday. His statement followed on from a...

Posted - 26th March 2021 Libya NOC has completed the first development well E04 in the Erawn field, which is operated by Zelaf Oil and Gas Company (ZLOG). The well was put through a production test after drilling and completion, using zero gas flaring to avoid any...

Posted - 25th March 2021 The Deputy Spokeswoman for the US State Department, Jalina Porter, said that America intends to resume its embassy operations in Libya as soon as the security situation improves and permits it. Porter indicated that the US ambassador to Libya,...

Posted - 25th March 2021 The Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) held a webinar entitled “Demystifying Banking and Insurance for Trade with Libya” yesterday. More than 100 banking, insurance and export promotion professionals participated to hear key-note speeches...

Posted - 25th March 2021 Minister of Economy and Trade Muhammad Al-Hawaij discussed Tuesday with the British Ambassador to Libya Nicholas Hopton, bilateral relations, as well as providing technical and advisory support in economic reforms and economic diversity...

Posted - 25th March 2021 The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah held discussions on Wednesday with American companies at a virtual event, hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya. The US ambassador, Richard Norland...

Posted - 24th March 2021 The Libyan Investment Authority has received the "C" block from the Abulaila Tower in the capital, Tripoli after completing all the necessary steps in the process with Al-Tadamun Real Estate Investment Company, the LIA confirmed on Monday. The...

Posted - 24th March 2021 CAIRO - 22 March 2020: In the upcoming days, the Libyan Parliament will discuss the draft approval of the unified general budget of the state, to facilitate the tasks of the current government and support it in implementing the projects...

Posted - 24th March 2021 France will reopen its embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli next Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron revealed this when he received the new President and Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council at the Elysée Palace on Tuesday....

Posted - 23rd March 2021 Head of the Libyan Contractors Union, Abdel-Majid Kosher confirmed that Libya needs an estimated $450 billion US dollars for reconstruction over the upcoming five years. Kosher said in a press statement to Masrawy news website that the...

Posted - 23rd March 2021 A country that has undergone immeasurable hardships in recent years, Libya’s fortunes are at last showing signs of changing. A decade after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, Salim Abukhzaam, Head of Libya at British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB),...

Posted - 23rd March 2021 NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday that the NATO alliance is prepared to support security work in Libya, in view of the new government assuming its duties, providing it be requested by the Libyans themselves. Stoltenberg...

Posted - 23rd March 2021 The Minister of Interior of the National Unity Government, Khaled Ahmed Mazen discussed on Monday, with the UK Ambassador to Libya, Nicholas Hopton, bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the fields of training and developing the...

Posted - 22nd March 2021 The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio, said his country wanted to develop relations with Libya to reach a strategic partnership. Di Maio arrived Sunday in Tripoli on an unannounced visit and met with the Prime Minister of the Government...

Posted - 22nd March 2021 The Maltese ambassador to Libya, Charles Slaiba, reaffirmed Sunday that his country's embassy will open in Tripoli in few days to facilitate visa processing for Libyans. The ambassador's remarks came in a meeting with the Head of the...

Posted - 22nd March 2021 Eni’s CEO met the new Libyan PM Dbeibah and the new Minister of Oil and Gas Oun today in Tripoli to discuss Eni's activities in the country and areas of common interest and collaboration in the fields of renewable energy, circular economy,...

Posted - 22nd March 2021 Libyan olive oil ‘‘Libico’’ brand has been exported for the first time to Italy, the Libyan Tunisian Business Council reports. The olive oil is produced in the Western/Nefusa Mountain city of Gharian by Mishkat company. The company has been...

Posted - 22nd March 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announce on Friday the first development well (E04) in the Erawin field operated by Zallaf Libya Oil and Gas was put on production test after the drilling and completion operations were completed....

Posted - 22nd March 2021 The near 100 billion dinar budget faces controversy in the face of the GNU's brief time in office and the country's long history of corruption within the government Libya’s newly confirmed Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Debaiba has revealed the...

Posted - 21st March 2021 Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in Libya have been informed to prepare themselves to return to Syria, at orders of the Turkish government, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The Observatory reported that about 9,000...

Posted - 21st March 2021 Libya is seeking to recruit 3000 Tunisian teachers through international cooperation, said the head of the Supreme Council of Tunisian and Libyan Businessmen, Abdulhafid Al-Sakroufi. Al-Sakroufi, said in statements to Tunisian Radio "Shams" FM...

Posted - 21st March 2021 The Egyptian president reaffirmed Cairo’s adherence to its water rights by reaching a legally binding agreement that guarantees clear rules for the filling and operating of the GERD Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and British Prime...

Posted - 21st March 2021 Abdelhafid El Sakroufi, the head of the Supreme Council of Libyan Tunisian Businessmen (SCLTB), an organization that represents one group of Libyan and Tunisian business leaders, stated that the Council is working on a Tunisian-Libyan fund for...

Posted - 21st March 2021 Ten years ago today, the United States under President Barack Obama intervened in the nascent Libyan civil war. Using one of the most common tools of modern American statecraft, the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, U.S. forces led a coalition of...

Posted - 20th March 2021 With over 200 outlets under its roof, Tripoli’s largest shopping centre, City Mall, opened on Thursday in the Drebi district of the capital. As would be expected of such a concern the outlets represented all the different sectors such as...

Posted - 19th March 2021 The Head of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), Wiam Al-Abdali, said Libya could see five hours of rolling blackout a day in the peak summer heat, but there couldn't be any power outages if GECOL managed to provide additional...

Posted - 19th March 2021 Mercenaries in Libya used Milton Keynes-based geosciences specialist Bridgeporth as cover for their movements, a United Nations report has said. Private military contractors used a document purporting to be from AustinBridgeporth to move...

Posted - 19th March 2021 Moscow, 18 March, 2021 (Lana) - The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, announced Thursday, that the Russian Chargé d'Affairs to Libya discussed with Libyan officials the reopening of the Russian embassy in Tripoli....

Posted - 18th March 2021 Turkish companies will help build a commercial port in war-torn Libya if a deal is agreed. The country’s United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has already discussed the issue with Turkish officials and invited local...

Posted - 18th March 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied arrived this morning in Tripoli accompanied by a high-level delegation. Upon arrival at Maitiga International Airport, President Saied was welcomed by the new Presidential Council head, Mohammad Menfi, and other...

Posted - 18th March 2021 The reality is that throughout the conflict in Libya, the U.S. has not had a clear vision over what it wants to achieve, or how it wants to achieve it. The NATO intervention in 2011 was primarily rooted in a perception that something needed to...

Posted - 17th March 2021 The Head of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, along with the outgoing members have handed over power to the new Presidential Council Head, Mohammed Menfi, and the Prime Minister of the Government...

Posted - 17th March 2021 A meeting was held yesterday between the Chairman of the Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company (LPTIC), Faisel Gergab and Lydie Sheehan, the Country Director for British Trade Relations in Libya and Tunisia. The...

Posted - 17th March 2021 The ex-Minister of Interior in Libya's Government of National Accord, Fathi Bashagha, said he was ready for investigation into any kind of violations, adding on Twitter Tuesday that he had now handed over power to the new incumbent, Khalid...

Posted - 16th March 2021 Many people are familiar with some African currencies, but not everyone knows the worth of these notes 1. Libyan Dinar - (1 USD – 1.43 LYD). 2. Tunisian Dinar - (1USD – 2.90 TND). 3. Ghanaian Cedi - (1USD – 5.75 CEDI) 4.  Moroccan Dirham - (1...

Posted - 15th March 2021 New York — Libya's state-run National Oil Corporation is poised to release oil revenues to the central bank after the interim Government of Unity (GNU) was sworn in on March 15, creating a new oil ministry. Last year, NOC started using the...

Posted - 15th March 2021 The Ministry of Finance Monday launched a new application to help public employees assertion their monthly salary movements and link them directly with the committee for rationalizing the salaries. The new app named 260 "Libya salaries" is now...

Posted - 15th March 2021 Dbeibah’s swearing-in comes after parliament last week approved his cabinet, in a move hailed by key leaders and foreign powers as “historic.” TOBRUK--Libya’s new Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was sworn in Monday to lead the war-torn...

Posted - 15th March 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Libya’s back in the oil game after years of false starts and setbacks. Energy facilities shut or damaged during its civil war were reopened last year and the OPEC member has managed to keep its production above 1 million barrels...

Posted - 15th March 2021 The National Oil Corporation (NOC) announces that the general revenue obtained from the sales of crude oil and its derivatives in February amounted to US$ 1,235,710,353.98, which were deposited into the account of the National Oil Corporation...

Posted - 14th March 2021 Speaking at the Tunisian-Libyan Economic Forum in Sfax (11 March), Libya’s outgoing Minister of Labour, Al-Mehdi Al-Amin, emphasized the depth of Libyan-Tunisian relations and the joint ties between the two countries in all fields, whether in...

Posted - 14th March 2021 The Libyan Embassy in Cairo announced an agreement with Egypt to facilitate the entry of Egyptian workers into Libya. This follows a meeting between both sides to implement a bilateral memorandum of cooperation signed in 2013 regarding “the...

Posted - 14th March 2021 German exploration and production company, Wintershall Dea will adopt a "wait and watch" approach to Libya, despite the lifting of a blockade in the North African state and a surge in production. The producer also sees great potential in...

Posted - 14th March 2021 In its first decree (1/2021) since physically moving into the Tripoli Prime Minister’s Office, the incoming Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) of Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba today froze all financial activities of all state investment funds...

Posted - 14th March 2021 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi affirmed in a phone call with Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh on Saturday that Egypt is ready to implement developmental projects in Libya as a priority for the Libyan people. Sisi affirmed...

Posted - 14th March 2021 The coming session of the Libyan House of Representatives will be held in Tobruk on Monday,  instead of Benghazi for logistical reasons, the parliament's spokesman, Abdullah Belhaq was quoted by the Afrigate News as saying on Friday. Members...

Posted - 13th March 2021 The Chairman of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), accompanied by the members of the Board of Directors and the General Manager of the company, paid an inspection visit to the west Tripoli gas power plant project, which is being...

Posted - 13th March 2021 The Director General of the Housing and Utilities Projects Implementation Authority, Ahmed Bouderbala, has agreed with the Tunisian Minister of Equipment Kamal Doukh to organize a work visit to Tripoli soon. The visit aims to follow up on the...

Posted - 13th March 2021 The most important subject in the meeting of NOC Chairman with His Excellency the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Libya On Thursday, March 11, 2021, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, received his Excellency the...

Posted - 12th March 2021   Deputy Prime Minister - Hussein Atiya Abdul Hafeez Al-Qatrani (east). Deputy Prime Minister - Ramadan Ahmed Boujenah (south). Minister of Agriculture - Hamad Abdul-Razzaq Taher Al-Marimi Minister of Financial Resources - Tariq Abdel...

Posted - 11th March 2021 As part of plans to turn into a major regional hub for electricity and since Egypt has a surplus of power, the Ministry of Electricity announced plans to increase the capacity of an interconnection line between Egypt and Libya. Egypt's...

Posted - 11th March 2021 On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at the National Oil Corporation headquarter in Tripoli, a contract for the establishment of Oil Center for Oil Maintenance and Services in Benghazi, between the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and the Italian Company...

Posted - 11th March 2021 Libya’s Presidential Council head Fayez al-Sarraj said Wednesday that he is ready to step down and pass his tasks and responsibilities to the new government to consolidate the principle of peaceful transition of power. Al-Sarraj’s remarks came...

Posted - 11th March 2021 The eastern based Libyan government led by Abdalla Thinni announced today that it too is ready to hand over power to the new unified Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) headed by Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba. The announcement came after the...

Posted - 10th March 2021 Libya’s parliament approves cabinet of PM Abdelhamid Dbeibah after two days of intense deliberations. Libya’s parliament has voted to approve an interim unity government to lead the war-ravaged nation to December elections, a key step towards...

Posted - 10th March 2021 HID provided Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) with HID Integrale™, a secure end-to-end solution that expedites the application and issuance processes and manages the entire ePassport lifecycle. For improved security, the redesigned...

Posted - 10th March 2021 The Tunisian Minister of Transport, Moez Chakchouk, announced a new schedule in resumption of flights with Libya, beginning from next April. In a hearing with the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Tunisian Parliament, Chakchouk drew attention...

Posted - 10th March 2021 Libya aims to increase its oil output to 1.45mn b/d by the end of the year, a level not achieved since 2012. The target is conditional on the domestic security situation and a sufficient budget for state-owned oil firm NOC to carry out its...

Posted - 10th March 2021 Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, has met with the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Libya, Gerardo Noto, to explore opportunities for mutual cooperation to implement...

Posted - 10th March 2021 The new GNU (Government of National Unity) is a month old and while Abdul Dbeibeh, the GNU prime minister is making progress with appointing 26 new government ministers and moving the GNU capital to Sirte, the nature of the GNU security forces...

Posted - 10th March 2021 The Maltese Ambassador, Charles Saliba, arrived in Libya on Saturday (6 March) to open the Maltese Consulate in Tripoli and begin carrying out his diplomatic duties, the Tripoli Foreign Ministry confirmed yesterday. The Ministry reminded that...

Posted - 10th March 2021 Libya's parliament has postponed to Wednesday its vote of confidence on a new interim government. "The parliament decided to suspend [postpone] the session until tomorrow, Wednesday," Muhammad Al-Raeed, a member of the House of Representatives...

Posted - 09th March 2021 Few countries exemplify the tragedy of the Arab Spring like Libya. The fall of the 42-year dictatorship of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafibrought a decade of anarchy as competing governments, militias and foreign powers struggled to seize control of...

Posted - 09th March 2021 The deputy head of the Government of National Accord's Presidential Council, Ahmed Mitig, welcomed Sunday the "end of financial division between the Ministry of Finance at the GNA and east-based Interim Government after the GNA's Ministry had...

Posted - 09th March 2021 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry yesterday discussed in Cairo the latest developments in Libya with UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis. The spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Hafez, said on Twitter...

Posted - 09th March 2021 The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) has suspended the session of granting confidence to the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Sirte, saying it will resume Tuesday after it has summoned Prime Minister-elect Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah for...

Posted - 08th March 2021 Ageela Saleh, head of the House of Representatives (HoR) and 130 HoR members from the west, east and south started arriving in Sirte yesterday to attend today’s planned reunified session. The number of arrived members was quoted by Ismail...

Posted - 08th March 2021 It was in April 1975 when the vessel "Vento di Ponente" started its first voyage to Tripoli and Bengasi carrying 175 containers. Since then, Tarros Group has ensured an ongoing service between both markets. Now the group is adding new...

Posted - 08th March 2021 The new Libyan unity government will restore an oil and gas portfolio as one of 27 ministries to administer the war-ravaged Opec member until December elections, according to the office of the prime minister-designate. A representative of...

Posted - 08th March 2021 A Maltese delegation - Head of Maltese Civil Aviation and his Assistant - visited Tripoli's Mitiga airport Saturday to inspect the measures taken at the airport for arriving and departing flights. The delegation met with the Head of Airports...

Posted - 08th March 2021 The UN envoy to Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Jan Kubis stressed the importance of holding the House of Representatives session on Monday, 8 March, saying it is another important step towards restoring...

Posted - 08th March 2021 The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) participated in the 14th Ministerial Meeting of the OPEC + alliance held via videoconference, on Thursday. NOC explained in a statement Sunday that the meeting was attended by Taher Najah, the...

Posted - 07th March 2021 Full list of government of National Unity’s proposed formation (click on image to enlarge)   The Libya Consultancy does not imply any association with, nor endorsement by or of the publisher of this article Share This...

Posted - 07th March 2021 The Paris Court of Appeals announced that Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) is the winner of an arbitration case against the Libyan Emirates Oil Refining Company (LERCO) in regards to the Ras Lanuf Refinery. In an official statement on...

Posted - 07th March 2021 The Airports Authority is seeking cooperation from the US Coleman International Company to enhance procedures and measures of civil aviation security at Libyan airports. The authority said in a post on Facebook that it met with Coleman...

Posted - 06th March 2021 Libya's prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has proposed a large unity cabinet with 35 members, his office said on Friday, ahead of a planned parliament meeting on Monday to debate ratifying his government. The Cabinet list has been...

Posted - 06th March 2021 The Tobruk Corniche construction project is making good progress, the implementing company, Al-Amira Construction company reports. The seafront had been neglected for years if not decades, receiving little attention or investment over the last...

Posted - 06th March 2021 The Co-chairs of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya (IFCL) Economic Working Group (EU, Egypt, US), with the UN Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL), expressed their concern yesterday regarding the situation in Libya’s electricity...

Posted - 05th March 2021 Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Thursday submitted his proposal for the new government for parliament approval in an effort to unite the country’s divided institutions, the prime minister's office said. "In accordance...

Posted - 05th March 2021 The Shiban Tyre Recycling factory in Libya is forging ahead with production of crumb rubber. The factory has received much praise locally and won the 2020 SME Expo award for best SME project. The factory uses 100 per cent local labour and...

Posted - 04th March 2021 The Libyan-Tunisian Businessmen Forum was held at the headquarters of the Tripoli Chamber of Commerce, in Tripoli yesterday, under the slogan “Supporting and strengthening joint economic cooperation.” The Tunisian delegation from Sfax Chamber...

Posted - 04th March 2021 Head of Libya’s Audit Beuri Khalid Shaksakk held a meeting at the Bureau’s headquarters with the chairman of the General Electricity Company (GEC), Waem Al-Abdali and other high ranking members in the energy sector, During the meeting, it was...

Posted - 04th March 2021 Governor of the east-based parallel Central Bank of Libya, Ali al-Habri has submitted a letter seeking retirement from the Speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, Aqeelah Saleh.  Al-Habri justified his move by saying that he had...

Posted - 03rd March 2021 The advance team of a UN observer mission has arrived in Libya, which after a decade of conflict and chaos plans to hold elections in December, informed sources said Wednesday. The group of about 10 United Nations staff flew into the capital...

Posted - 03rd March 2021 The newly designated Libyan triumvirate Presidency Council, and the prime minister of the Government of National Unity, yesterday demanded that the United Nations Committee of Experts expedite the disclosure of the results of the...

Posted - 03rd March 2021 Libya’s state Afriqiyah Airways announced yesterday the restart of its Benghazi – Misurata – Benghazi flights. Flights will commence from next Tuesday 9 March. On 10 February the first Libyan Airlines flight had commenced from Tripoli’s Mitiga...

Posted - 03rd March 2021 In the lead-up to a vote in Geneva on February 5 slated to appoint a transitional Libyan executive authority after a yearlong deadly war in the capital of Tripoli, Egyptian officials were expressing worry over how volatile they found the...

Posted - 03rd March 2021 Abdul Hamid Dbeibah chosen at forum where delegates were reportedly offered up to $500,000 The legitimacy of Libya’s new interim prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has been thrown into doubt by a UN inquiry finding that he allegedly gained...

Posted - 02nd March 2021 The speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament has announced that the chamber will hold a special session on March 8 to discuss holding a vote of confidence on a new unity government. Aguila Saleh, speaker of the House of Representatives...

Posted - 02nd March 2021 CAIRO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Sunday that a Paris court of appeal had upheld an award by a court of arbitration against Libyan Emirates Oil Refining Company (LERCO) regarding the Ras Lanuf refinery in Libya....

Posted - 02nd March 2021 The Libyan Audit Bureau requested the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) to provide a list of pressing maintenance projects for the power stations, no later than next Monday, which should be ready before the next summer peak usage...

Posted - 01st March 2021 The Joint Military Committee (5 + 5) confirmed, on Sunday, the readiness of the city of Sirte to host a meeting of the House of Representatives to hold the session on granting confidence to the government of national unity headed by Abdel...

Posted - 01st March 2021 Libya’s state General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) announced on Friday (26 February) the acquisition of two newly manufactured oil tankers. It said this comes within the framework of implementing its 2020-2023 plan to modernize...

Posted - 01st March 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced yesterday that it had won a decision from the Paris Court of Appeal in relation to an arbitral award in an arbitration between NOC and the Libyan Emirates Oil Refining Company (LERCO)...

Posted - 01st March 2021 The United Arab Emirates is scaling back its role in foreign conflicts, accelerating a shift from policies it pursued after the 2011 Arab Spring, with the new administration in the U.S. a key factor. The oil-rich nation has significantly...

Posted - 01st March 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced record January 2021 oil revenues of 1,409,093,619.13 U.S. dollars deposited in its Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) account in line with the country’s current financial arrangements. These...

Posted - 28th February 2021 The Libyan parliament will discuss holding a vote of confidence on a new unified government for the divided country on March 8, its speaker Aguila Saleh said. Oil-rich Libya has been mired in chaos since dictator Muammar Qaddafi was ousted...

Posted - 27th February 2021 The chairman of the Libyan Post Telecommunications and Information Technology Company, Faisel Gergab, met this morning with the U.S. embassy’s Commercial Attaché, Daniel Liss, U.S. Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya...

Posted - 27th February 2021 On the eve of the Arab Spring’s 10th anniversary, the atmosphere in Libya's Tripoli was completely different from the mood in Tunisia or Egypt. In the city's Martyrs' Square, Libyan youth waving flags gathered to honor the historic day. The...

Posted - 27th February 2021 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya’s designated prime minister, chosen via a U.N.-facilitated process last month, said on Thursday he had proposed a governing plan to the country’s divided parliament as part of a peace process. The new interim...

Posted - 27th February 2021 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) announced the onset of maintenance work in the first turbine of Ruwais gas-fired power station. GECOL said that a convoy of trucks set off from Tripoli seaport packed with equipment and new...

Posted - 26th February 2021 Egypt is planning to open its embassy in Libya’s capital for the first time in six years, to mark a shift to a more conciliatory approach to western Libya-based factions. According to reports, the visiting Egyptian delegation discussed the...

Posted - 25th February 2021 As the international body entrusted with world peace, security and conflict mediation worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has been involved in Libya's internal conflict from the very start. This involvement came quickly – somewhat hastily...

Posted - 25th February 2021 The General Syndicate of Oil (GSO) has demanded the relevant authorities to implement the decision to increase the salaries in the oil sector, threatening to take further measures if their demands are not met. In a statement Wednesday, the...

Posted - 25th February 2021 Four members of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, namely, Chris Murphy, Chris Coons, Lindsey Graham, and Marco Rubio, have reintroduced the Libya Stabilization Act aimed at providing a peaceful diplomatic solution to the...

Posted - 25th February 2021 Malta’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Evarist Bartolo, held what was reported to be a very positive conversation with the designate Prime Minister of Libya Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, according to a post by its Ambassador to Libya,...

Posted - 25th February 2021 Seventy-four House of Representatives (HoR) members announced yesterday their unconditional support for the Government of National Unity. In their statement the 73 members called on prime ministers designate, Abd Alhamid Dabaiba, to...

Posted - 25th February 2021 The Libyan central bank’s letter of credit (LC) system may have been exploited for “fraud on a large scale”, researchers believe, after finding LC-based transaction volumes were far higher than actual imports. Over 13 weeks between April...

Posted - 24th February 2021 Libyan Airlines announced that after the unification of its management between the eastern and western regions, it is working to operate flights to five different international destinations, the Tripoli based official state news agency LANA...

Posted - 24th February 2021 Malta has denied having any problems with Libya in response to the comments made by the newly elected Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah who said he wouldn't meet with Maltese counterpart, Robert Abela until Malta respects Libyans. The...

Posted - 24th February 2021 The US ambassador to Libya, Richard B. Norland, affirmed his country's full support to the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General Kubis in his call for the relevant Libyan institutions to respect the roadmap approved by the...

Posted - 24th February 2021 Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Evarist Bartolo participated in the Foreign Affairs Council meeting Evarist Bartolo has called for more concrete engagement by the EU in supporting the economic recovery of its southern neighbours,...

Posted - 24th February 2021 The new Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Mohammed Menfi, held discussions with the Prime Minister-elect, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, along with the 5+5 Military Committee, on the issue of unifying the military institutions The meeting, which...

Posted - 24th February 2021 The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said Tuesday that the office of military affairs and police of the UN have expressed readiness to monitor the Libyan ceasefire implementation on the...

Posted - 23rd February 2021 The designated head of the Presidential Council, Mohamedd Al-Menfi, accompanied by the members of the Presidency Council, Musa Al-Koni and Abdulla Al-Lafi, met with designate prime minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abd...

Posted - 23rd February 2021 Libya's second most populated city has so far spent a billion dinars rebuilding its streets and neighbors after the destruction of the country's civil conflict The Stability Committee reported that Libya’s second most populated city of...

Posted - 23rd February 2021 The office of the Tunisia-African Business Council (TABC) in Sfax will organize the third session of the Tunisian-Libyan Economic Forum of the Tunisian-Libyan Business Council (TLBC) on March 11, 2021. The forum will be held under the...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 The largest concrete production facility established by a Turkish company, Karanfil Group, in civil-war-torn Libya, has been inaugurated, the firm said in a statement Monday. To date, $10 million (TL 70 million) have been spent on the...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 Libya’s NOC is raising the level of readiness to respond to potential emergency situations and to that end the Emergency Committee in the Western and Southern Region carried out a working visit for the purpose of evaluating the oil well...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 The Tripoli based Libyan Minister of Defence, Salah Namroush yesterday announced that he had put measures in place to secure Tripoli after the alleged assassination attempt on Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha. In his statement, Namroush...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 Libya’s Tripoli based Audit Bureau announced yesterday that it is to review the Electronic Cargo Tracking Note (ECTN) contract between Turkish company, SCK, and the Tripoli Finance Ministry. The revelation came after Tripoli Audit Bureau...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 ROME: Libya’s new Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has expressed his wish to develop ties with Italy, including increasing cooperation in managing migration in the Mediterranean. “We intend to develop our privileged relationship with...

Posted - 22nd February 2021 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said he escaped a “well-planned” assassination attempt on Sunday in which gunmen fired on his motorcade in the capital Tripoli, though an armed force that said its members were...

Posted - 21st February 2021 Libya’s Prime Minister-designate Abdulhamid Dbeibeh reiterated his pledge to form a national unity government, saying he will set certain conditions to ensure fair representation in the cabinet. Meanwhile, new United Nations envoy, Jan...

Posted - 21st February 2021 The newly elected Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Mohammed Menfi, held discussions with the Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, on bilateral relations and the ways and means of cooperation in various fields between both...

Posted - 21st February 2021 The Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) today responded to the Global Witness report covered by Libya Herald yesterday. The report by the international NGO, said Libya appears to be losing millions of dollars a year through fraudulent use...

Posted - 21st February 2021 The Housing and Infrastructure Board (HIB), one of the Libyan state’s housing implementation arms, has prepared a report on freeing up 17,000 stalled housing projects for possible Public Private Partnership (PPP) investment. The incomplete...

Posted - 20th February 2021 Libya’s newest Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba concluded his visit to Cairo on Friday and headed next to Tobruk city in his first visit to eastern Libya. Once in Tobruk, Dabaiba met with the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives...

Posted - 20th February 2021 WASHINGTON - Private security contractor and ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump Erik Prince violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, U.N. investigators have found in a report detailed by U.S. media on Friday. The...

Posted - 20th February 2021 The Oil Clinic Tripoli of the National Oil Cooperation (NOC) reopened Thursday its pharmaceutical service building in the presence of the NOC's head Mustafa Sanalla and director of the "Mist Group" company, executing the development project...

Posted - 20th February 2021 UN peace envoy Jan Kubis met with Libyan military commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in a renewed drive to bring peace to the war-ravaged North African oil exporter. Mr Kubis called for the...

Posted - 20th February 2021 A new report out today by international NGO, Global Witness, says Libya appears to be losing millions of dollars a year through fraudulent use of its Letters of Credit (LC) system, run by the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya. The report says...

Posted - 20th February 2021 The Libyan government has called on the United States and its Western allies to assist in ousting all Russian forces, including Wagner group mercenaries deployed in the war-torn country. In exclusive comments made for a recently published...

Posted - 19th February 2021 Libyan’s Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Dbeibeh chose Cairo as the destination of his second visit abroad amid reports that his first took him to Turkey. In Cairo, he met with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi during a meeting that was...

Posted - 19th February 2021 China’s response to the recent changes in Libya has been cautious, but positive. But will it herald a more substantive shift in its own relationship with the country? For now, the answer seems to be no. Instead, what seems more likely is...

Posted - 19th February 2021 The Libyan people’s hopes have been raised and lowered by a succession of events so often in the past decade that it seems foolish to get on a roller coaster of emotions again. A fact-based and precise analysis cannot be anything but...

Posted - 19th February 2021 The Libyan Norwegian Fertilizer Company (Lifeco) announced today that the vessel MARE I docked today to load the first export shipment of urea since it became a majority-owned Libyan company. In January this year, the National Oil...

Posted - 18th February 2021 Egypt announced it sent to Libya this week a delegation to explore the possibility of resuming a diplomatic presence in the Libyan capital Tripoli as well as the consular presence in Benghazi. Egypt has approved Libyan Airlines’ resumption...

Posted - 18th February 2021 As governor of the Central Bank of Libya, I am committed to pursuing a policy of providing financial security and order, and supplying a firm base for the nation - Saddik El Kabir. Already beset by internal conflict and political and social...

Posted - 18th February 2021 Sponsored by Libya’s Tripoli Ministry of Economy and Industry, the Libyan Export Promotion Centre (LEPC) is organizing the Second Scientific conference on Non-oil Exports under the slogan ‘‘Libyan non-oil exports – reality and future...

Posted - 18th February 2021 UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for all foreign troops and mercenaries to leave war-torn Libya during a meeting with the country newly appointed leader Tuesday, his spokesman said. Guterres "spoke...

Posted - 18th February 2021 The new Head of the Presidential Council, Mohammed Menfi, met with his two deputies, Abdullah Al-Lafi and Mossa Al-Kouni (online) and discussed the measures leading to holding general elections next December. The meeting in Tripoli saw the...

Posted - 18th February 2021 VA Tech Wabag Ltd., an Indian multinational company focused on water treatment for municipal and industrial users, is set to construct water treatment and seawater desalination plants in Tunisia and Libya respectively. These projects are a...

Posted - 17th February 2021 The spokesman for the Libyan Foreign Ministry, Mohammed Al-Giblawi, said Venice Court of Appeals ruled for Libyan consulate in Milan and rejected a lawsuit from Italian firm, SCT, that called for 7 million dollars in compensation....

Posted - 17th February 2021 The acting special representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Stephanie Williams, said that unless steps are taken to address the dilapidated electrical infrastructure in Libya, it will collapse by the summer, as the country suffers...

Posted - 17th February 2021 The graffiti and murals on the public walls of Tripoli during the Revolution of 17 February 2011 captured the mood of the time. It was a time when the population united and focused against its one common enemy: Qaddafi and his regime. It...

Posted - 17th February 2021 An interim government promises peace, unity and democratic elections. Skeptical Libyans say they’ve heard this promise before. CAIRO — Fluttering flags and ornamental lights in red, white and green went up on buildings and lampposts around...

Posted - 17th February 2021 Berniq Airways via its official Facebook and Instagram accounts, announced (11-Feb-2021) it received air operator certification from Libya's Civil Aviation Authority. As previously reported by CAPA, the airline plans to use Benghazi Benina...

Posted - 16th February 2021 The Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Fayez Al-Sarraj, is receiving treatment in an Italian hospital in Rome after undergoing an operation that took hours, according to the Italian Nova news agency. Al-Sarraj assigned on Sunday his...

Posted - 16th February 2021 Flights scheduled to land at Alexandria’s Burj al-Arab airport Libyan Airlines announced Monday that it will resume flights from Tripoli to Alexandria, Egypt after a roughly one-year hiatus.  "The first flights of Libyan Airlines will...

Posted - 15th February 2021 The North African nation has been split since a revolution unseated dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. But a truce has held, and hopes are high for a new unity government. Over the past few years, the way that Libyans have celebrated the...

Posted - 15th February 2021 CAIRO -15 February 2020: Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath quoted sources as saying that former Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, left Libya and assigned Ahmed Maitiq the duties of leading over the Libyan Presidential Council,...

Posted - 15th February 2021 The President of Libya’s newly elected interim government, Mohamed Menfi, advocated unity and “true reconciliation” in his first trip to the country’s eastern region. At a UN-sponsored conference in Geneva last week, delegates from Libya’s...

Posted - 15th February 2021 Over the past two days, Special Envoy for Libya and Head of UNSML Jan Kubis continued his introductory calls with Libyan interlocutors, UNSMIL reported yesterday. Domestically, he spoke with Khaled al-Meshri, President of the High State...

Posted - 15th February 2021 Libya, a transit stop for migrants trying to reach Europe, is now facing an exodus of its own people After witnessing abuse and discrimination, Sherif Targi*, 21, decided to leave Libya for Europe. “I saw killing and massacres because of...

Posted - 15th February 2021 Egyptian delegation’s official visit to be second to Tripoli since 2014 TRIPOLI, Libya A high-level diplomatic delegation from Egypt will visit Libya’s capital to reopen its embassy, a Libyan official said Sunday. In a statement to Anadolu...

Posted - 13th February 2021 In a phone call between Menfi and Norland, the US Ambassador confirmed his country's support for the new executive authority and the progressing political process in Libya - The US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland confirmed his...

Posted - 13th February 2021 The Libyan Foreign Ministry said it had achieved a diplomatic victory after the rejection by the Security Council's sanctions committee for the request of Belgium to unfreeze Libyan assets in its banks. The Foreign Ministry said in a...

Posted - 13th February 2021 Member of the Joint Military Committee, and commander of the Western Region joint forces, Brigadier General al-Fitori Griebel has reiterated that there is no negligence in getting the mercenaries out of Libya and they must leave at once. In...

Posted - 13th February 2021 General Electricity Company of Libya (Gecol) has invited firms to bid by 15 March for the advisory services contract for two power plant projects in Janzour and Sirte. The selected firm will evaluate the West Tripoli Steam power plant...

Posted - 13th February 2021 The Tripoli Audit Bureau has criticised the (now outgoing caretaker) Serraj government in failing to live up to its promise to reduce spending on diplomatic missions abroad. It pointed out that total expenditures on diplomatic missions...

Posted - 12th February 2021 The visit of the head of the presidential council to Benghazi strengthened Libyans' optimism about an end to the divisions that have plagued the country since 2014. BENGHAZI, Libya - The visit by the head of the Libyan Presidential Council...

Posted - 12th February 2021 Situation in Libya continues to pose unusual, extraordinary threat to national security, says Joe Biden WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden on Thursday extended the national emergency with respect to Libya by one year, according to the White...

Posted - 11th February 2021 The outcome of the UN-sponsored vote on new interim authorities in conflict-torn Libya seems to preclude any discussion of clear winners and losers, and anyone who believes that it fully safeguards Turkey’s interests might be making a...

Posted - 11th February 2021 Musbah Al-Akkari, member of the Central Bank of Libya’s influential Exchange Rate Adjustment Committee, stated that foreign exchange sales reached US $ 3 billion, 25 working days after the introduction of the new LD 4.48 per US$ exchange...

Posted - 11th February 2021 Turkey’s intervention in the Libyan conflict proved decisive in tipping the balance of military force towards Ankara’s allies in the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord. Similar support for Azerbaijan in clashes with Armenia over...

Posted - 11th February 2021 Libya’s cash-strapped National Oil Corp. will receive part of 9 billion dinars ($2 billion) of stopgap funding that the government will provide to state institutions to cover wage bills and medicine, according to people familiar with the...

Posted - 11th February 2021 The much talked about first Libyan Airlines flight from Tripoli’s Mitiga airport landed at Benghazi’s Benina airport this morning. This flight carried a delegation of company directors and civil aviation officials, in order to re-establish...

Posted - 11th February 2021 While Russia's preferred candidates lost in last week's vote for interim leadership in Libya, Moscow still has a strategy for reinforcing its influence in the country. On Feb. 5, members of the UN-led Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF)...

Posted - 11th February 2021 The Defense Minister of the Government of National Accord, Salah Al-Namroush, discussed Wednesday in Tripoli with the commander of British special forces, Gwyn Jenkins, the latest security developments in Libya. Al-Namroush reiterated hope...

Posted - 11th February 2021 In Switzerland, Tunisia and Libya Va Tech Wabag has secured multiple orders worth about 100 Million Euros in Switzerland, Tunisia and Libya. WABAG Swiss received its biggest ever order towards design and build of Lake Water Treatment Plant...

Posted - 11th February 2021 The Chairman of the Turkish-Libyan business council, Murtaza Karanfil, said he was optimistic about boosting trade with Libya as a new interim government, headed by Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, assumes office. Karanfil told Anadolu Agency that he...

Posted - 11th February 2021 Libya's weak new government needs to strike a deal with strongman Haftar to stay afloat. A businessman with Gaddafi regime ties, Abdelhamid Debaiba defied the odds when a UN-led dialogue chose him as prime minister earlier this month,...

Posted - 10th February 2021 Benghazi spent LD 1 billion on 566 contracts to rebuild the city, its Stability Committee reported to eastern based official state news agency LANA on Sunday. More than two-thirds of this were distributed over 5,000 residential units in...

Posted - 10th February 2021 The Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fathi Bashagha said Tuesday he wanted to visit eastern region cities to boost efforts of national reconciliation, saying this issue is a responsibility for all Libyans and...

Posted - 09th February 2021 Russia is prepared for "constructive" work with Libya's newly elected interim leaders, the country's foreign ministry stated Monday. In a statement, Moscow said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a phone call with Abdul Hamid...

Posted - 09th February 2021 UNSMIL confirmed yesterday that for the first time since the 2014 Libya Dawn militia coup in Tripoli against the then newly elected parliament (the House of Representatives), Libya has a unified budget. This comes after the outgoing Faiez...

Posted - 09th February 2021 On 4th February the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, received the United Kingdom Ambassador to Libya, Nicholas Hopton, and his delegation at the NOC headquarters in Tripoli. According to a statement from the...

Posted - 09th February 2021 The new executive authority is unlikely to transcend Libya’s institutional divisions, nor break with well-established patterns of intense factional competition within the government. The seventy-four members of the UN-led Libyan Political...

Posted - 08th February 2021 Jan Kubis officially began his duties today as the UN Secretary-General’s envoy to Libya and head of UNSMIL. Yesterday, he spoke first to outgoing Presidency Council head and prime minister, Faiez Serraj, and then to Serraj’s Foreign...

Posted - 08th February 2021 The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), Libya’s sovereign state wealth entity, yesterday ‘‘categorically’’ dismissed the request by Belgium to the UN Security Council to partially unfreeze its assets in Belgium. Libya’s assets were frozen by...

Posted - 08th February 2021 Libya’s parallel eastern administration welcomed Friday’s announcement of a new interim government to unite the country, but added it would only cede power if the eastern-based parliament approved. Saturday’s qualified statement of support...

Posted - 08th February 2021 The Libyan ambassador to the United Nations, Taher El Sonni, warned Sunday Belgium of after attempting to seize Libyan frozen assets worth 49 million euros, advising Belgian authorities to back off as "this won't happen". El Sonni said on...

Posted - 08th February 2021 MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The European Union on Sunday welcomed the formation of the transitional Libyan government ahead of the December elections and threatened sanctions against those who may try to challenge it. The interim government was...

Posted - 08th February 2021 The head of Libya’s new presidency council is due soon in the capital to begin work on a transitional government amid cautious hopes a decade of fighting that’s divided the OPEC nation may be coming to an end. Mohammad Younes Menfi and...

Posted - 08th February 2021 Cairo [Egypt], February 7 (ANI/Sputnik): The Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has welcomed the election of a transitional executive authority in the country, LNA spokesman Maj. Gen. Ahmad al-Mismari said. In...

Posted - 07th February 2021 The Greek Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced its plan to reopen the Greek Embassy in Tripoli, the capital city of Libya, and the opening of a Consulate General in Benghazi, a major seaport and the second-most populous city in the Arabic...

Posted - 07th February 2021 Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a businessman-turned-politician, has been chosen as Libya’s new interim prime minister following lengthy United Nations-sponsored talks aimed at ending a decade of conflict in the North African country. Dbeibah, along...

Re-Posted - 06th February 2021 SUMMARY Key European states need to make Libya a shared foreign policy priority, and to overcome their competing approaches to the country. Europeans must reinvigorate the UN political track and use it to reinforce a unified national...

Posted - 06th February 2021 TRIPOLI, Libya Abdel Hamid Muhammad Dabaiba was unexpectedly elected as the transitional prime minister in Libya by the participants in the dialogue between the Libyan parties in Switzerland under the auspices of the United Nations, in...

Posted - 06th February 2021 TRIPOLI, Libya Members of The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum cast votes Friday in Geneva to select the heads of the Libyan executive authority that will lead the North African nation before elections in December. Four lists included...

Posted - 05th February 2021 A Libyan interim unity government has been chosen to replace the war-torn country's rival administrations and oversee elections in December. Delegates at a UN-led forum voted for a three-member presidential council and a prime minister at...

Posted - 05th February 2021 UNSMIL today welcomed the convening of the 7th round of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) at its Headquarters in Sirte, from 4 to 7 February, to continue the planning for the implementation of the ceasefire agreement signed on 23...

Posted - 05th February 2021 “It’s really not rocket science, is it? It’s not,” said Stephanie Williams. “The Libyans, in a sense, need to be left alone to work together to rebuild their country, which has a lot of promise.” GENEVA— The head of the UN mission in Libya...

Posted - 05th February 2021 FAISALABAD, Feb 04 (APP): Pakistan must exploit the huge potential for reconstruction of Libya after protracted civil war in that country, said Major General (retired) Rashad Jeved Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) nominated Pakistani Ambassador...

Posted - 05th February 2021 CAIRO: Speaker of the Libyan Parliament Aguila Saleh arrived in Cairo on a visit following an invitation from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. During the visit, discussions are expected to take place between Saleh, El-Sisi and...

Posted - 05th February 2021 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council requested the secretary-general on Thursday to swiftly deploy an advance team to Libya as a first step to sending monitors to observe an October cease-fire between the country’s warring...

Posted - 05th February 2021 The Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino submitted to the Libyan Foreign Ministry of the Government of National Accord a draft project for maritime demarcation between the two countries, asking for considering signing the...

Posted - 04th February 2021 Tripoli, 3 February, 2021 (Lana) Minister Of Economy And Industry, Faraj Boumtari, Launched Wednesday, At The Ministry’s Headquarters, Electronic Commercial Register System, In The Presence Of Minister Of Labor And Rehabilitation. And...

Posted - 04th February 2021 Tripoli, 3 February, 2021 (Lana) - Head Of The Libyan Media Foundation, Muhammad Omar Baiou, Issued A Decision To Establish A Libya TV And Radio Network. According to the first article of the decision, the network includes all TV and Radio...

Posted - 04th February 2021 As the civil war in Libya approaches the decade mark, many in the international community and certain segments of Libyan society have started to look for seemingly simple solutions to end the conflict. One of the solutions that has started...

Posted - 04th February 2021 Assistant general manager at Jumhouria Bank says liquidity is very satisfactory and now there is cash flow in market, but continued scarcity of cash dollars means black market still thrives. TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI - Libya's currency adjustment...

Posted - 04th February 2021 At a signing ceremony in Zawia, the launch of the marine and economic study for the construction of the Zawia Commercial Port was agreed on Sunday. After the signing ceremony, the delegation made up of Libya and local government, business...

Posted - 04th February 2021 Efforts to form a unified government are taking place in Switzerland where the LPDF (Libyan Political Dialogue Forum) is meeting to vote and form a unified government. So far there is deadlock, but participants are willing to try and...

Posted - 03rd February 2021 Libyan delegates at UN-backed talks on Tuesday held the first round of voting for a three-member presidency council, part of a new transitional executive to govern the country until December elections. It is part of a complex process hoped...

Posted - 03rd February 2021 The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, on Tuesday, said that he wants the United States, (US), under the direction of the new president, Joe Biden, to show increased interest in Libya, which has been suffering through conflicts for more...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 The commander of the European Operation IRINI, Admiral Fabio Agostini, confirmed IRINI’s readiness to play a role in monitoring the current ceasefireagreement in Libya. Operation IRINI was launched by the EU in 2020 to monitor the UN Arms...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 Member of the Presidential Council (PC) Ahmed Hamzah Monday discussed with the Italian Ambassador to Libya Giuseppe Puccini, supporting agriculture in the southern region. Several specialized experts participated in the meeting through the...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 Misrata International Airport will begin resuming passenger flights to Benina Airport in Benghazi, after a 6-year hiatus. "Flights at the airport will resume, specifically, next Sunday to Sfax and Istanbul, while the first flight to...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, has received Mr. Pascal Breant, the General Manager of Total Company, and his delegation, with presence of Mr. Abulgasem Shengher Member of the...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 When reflecting on the past 10 years, it’s clear to see that the Arab Spring is far from over. The popular uprisings in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon over the last couple of years, coupled with ongoing political and socio-economic...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 On the 26th day of January 2021, General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL)announced that plans are underway for the construction of a new gas-fired power plant in Zliten. This, the Libyan electricity company responsible for the...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 Benghazi’s Benina airport terminal should be ready by the end of the year, its administration reported Thursday (28 January). The project will be implemented on a BOT basis financed by the Bank of Commerce and Development (BCD). The...

Posted - 02nd February 2021 The United States has called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya. The request – which marks a turnaround with respect to the previous administration – was formulated by the head of the US mission to the...

Posted - 01st February 2021 Tripoli, 1 February 2021(Lana) GNA Defence Minister Salahu Eddin Al Namroush Has Expressed Hope That The UK Expand Military Cooperation Particularly One Related To Training Of Special Forces And Terrorism Fighting Forces, As Well As Support...

Posted - 01st February 2021 After a series of meetings in Benghazi, EU Ambassador José Sabadell and his team continued consultations in Tripoli on the economic situation in Libya. He met Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala, reassuring the Minister of the European Union's...

Posted - 01st February 2021 Further to earlier news that Egypt is planning a rail link to Benghazi, it has now emerged that it is also planning a new African link road through Libya, the eastern based official state news agency LANA reports today. The revelation was...

Posted - 01st February 2021 The American ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, stated that his country is cooperating with Russia on a number of matters, including the present situation in Libya. The American ambassador explained in a television interview that the...

Posted - 31st January 2021 About 70 Libyans are travelling to Geneva in an effort to end their country’s political divisions by picking a new interim prime minister and a three-person presidency council. The process, overseen by the UN, is being held amid rumours of...

Posted - 31st January 2021 The U.S. acquisition of a Russian-built Pantsir-S1 from the Libyan battlefield last June isn’t surprising. After all, Washington has previously seized opportunities to acquire advanced Russian systems in order to attain a better...

Posted - 31st January 2021 Tripoli, 31 January 2021(Lana) Libyan Embassy In Ukraine Has Received An Invitation From The Ukrainian- Arab Businessmen And Investors League FOR Libyan Companies To Take Part In The International Economic Forum Which Kiev Is Hosting From...

Posted - 31st January 2021 Zallaf Oil Company is developing an early production facility with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day Libya’s state-owned Zallaf Oil Company is evaluating bids for an upstream early production facility (EPF) project estimated to be worth...

Posted - 31st January 2021 Tripoli, 31 January, 2021. Chairman Of The Owners Committee Of Oasis Oil And Gas Company, Khalifa Abdel-Sadiq, With The Representative Of The Foreign Partner In The Company, Were Briefed On All The Projects That Were Completed In 2020.  ...

Posted - 30th January 2021 Following the closing of the one-week period on 28 January for the submission of nominations for the executive authority positions, UNSMIL today announced the list of candidates for the Presidency Council and Prime Minister positions. The...

Posted - 30th January 2021 The Charge d’Affairs of the Libyan Embassy to Ukraine, Adel Bin Issa, during his meeting with the President of the Ukrainian-Arab Association of Businessmen and investors, discussed the possible exchange of delegations of businessmen between...

Posted - 30th January 2021 The United Arab Emirates, accused this week by the United States of military intervention in Libya's protracted civil war, issued a statement Friday stating its readiness to work "closely" with the new US administration for a peaceful...

Posted - 30th January 2021 The Libyan Airports Authority (LAA) delegation currently visiting Madrid met with Spain’s Transport Minister and agreed a draft MoU. It also met two other Spanish companies in the airports sector, it reported Wednesday. During the meeting,...

Posted - 30th January 2021 Sabri Boukadoum met in Tripoli with GNA President Fayez al-Sarraj and other Libyan officials. ALGIERS--Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum ended a visit to Libya during which he met with officials of the Tripoli-based Government of...

Posted - 30th January 2021 Statement by Ambassador Jonathan Allen at the Security Council briefing on Libya UK underscores “there is no place for foreign fighters and mercenaries in Libya”, and calls for urgent adherence to ceasefire UK affirms support for the Libyan...

Posted - 30th January 2021 Libya is interested in Russian aircraft, including SSJ 100 and MC-21 passenger jets and helicopters, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade says on Friday after the meeting between Minister Denis Manturov and Deputy Chairman of the...

Posted - 30th January 2021 Tripoli, January 29, 2021 - Foreign Minister Muhammad Siala met yesterday, Thursday, in Tripoli, with the Ambassador of the Republic of Malta to Libya Charles Saliba.   The two sides discussed the importance of joint cooperation in order to...

Posted - 29th January 2021 After years of turbulence, Libya’s oil industry is finally starting to bounce back, with the production increase that started in December showing no signs of stopping.  Ever since the end of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, Libya’s oil sector...

Posted - 29th January 2021 EU Ambassador Jose Sabadell held talks in Benghazi this week with the National Forces for Peace, the organisation for marginalised cities, and the head of the Supreme Council for Al-Zwiya Tribes, Sheikh al-Senussi al-Haleeg. The EU reported...

Posted - 29th January 2021 Biden administration takes tough line on foreign meddling in Libya All foreign forces and mercenaries must leave war-torn Libya in support of the country's fragile peace process, a top US official said on Thursday – the first such statement...

Posted - 29th January 2021 Stephanie Williams, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), told the 15-member organ that intra-Libyan dialogues – facilitated by the Mission –...

Posted - 28th January 2021 The Libyan parliament announced that an appeals court in the east of the country cancelled the border demarcation and security cooperation agreements between the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Turkey, according to English language...

Posted - 28th January 2021 The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, said that the NOC wishes to increase oil production to 2.1 million barrels per day. In an interview with the British newspaper ‘The Times’,...

Posted - 28th January 2021 What exactly is Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF)? Is it simply the country’s army — a state force — as its supporters contend? Or is it no more than an alliance of militias or a family enterprise, as its...

Posted - 28th January 2021 A Meeting Was Held In The Maltese Capital Valetta On Wednesday Which Brought Together Officials From The Education Ministries Of The Two Countries With The Aim Of Forging A Cooperation Between The Two Sides.  An agreement ready to be signed...

Posted - 28th January 2021 Tripoli, 27 January 2021(Lana) Presidency Council Member Abdul Salam Kajman Met On Wednesday The Charge D’affairs Of The Embassy Of The Philippines In Libya Almar Kato.  The two sides have underlined the deep relationship between Libya and...

Posted - 28th January 2021 Libyan politician and academic dismisses possibility of Saleh becoming president and says that Haftar has no control over foreign troops in the country Head of Taghyeer Party in Libya and Special Envoy of GNA head to Maghreb Countries, Guma...

Posted - 28th January 2021 The heat of the armed conflict in Libya between Faiz Sarraj's Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar was extinguished by the ceasefire agreement which was reached by...

Posted - 28th January 2021 Libya has witnessed major developments in recent weeks, as members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) voted on a mechanism to select the executive authority. Simultaneously Ahmed Maiteeq was conducting his shuttle rounds between...

Posted - 28th January 2021 Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) is in the process of opening an office in London, which will play a key role in the North African’s state production increases. Talking to The Times, NOC’s chairman Mustafa Sanalla said the London office...

Posted - 27th January 2021 A delegation from Libya’s Airports Authority (LAA), headed by its head Mohamed Bayt al-Mal, visited Spain Monday (25 January), the LAA reported. The visit comes within the framework of strengthening relations and enhancing cooperation...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Amidst the pandemic and an unprecedented economic downturn, millions of people continue to face the compounding effects of violent conflict. Disputes over control of territory and resources play an oversized role in many of these conflicts —...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Tripoli, January 26, 2021 (LANA) - The President Of The Presidency Council Of The Government Of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, Met Today, Tuesday, With The Minister Of Finance Faraj Boumatari, Head Of The Audit Bureau Khaled Shakshak,...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Libya’s state-owned power company – General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) – has kick-started construction of a new 164MW gas-fired power plant. Located in Zliten, the plant will comprise four, 41MW turbines. Construction is estimated...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Mellitah Oil and Gas Company plans to raise the daily production rates in the Abu Tifl oil field to 1500 barrels per day, chairman of the management committee at Mellitah, Mohamed Bin Shatwan, said on Monday. Bin Shatwan said the ability to...

Posted - 27th January 2021 The Head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, discussed with officials from the German company, Siemens, ways to speed up the implementation of power units projects and maintenance at the General Electricity Company of Libya's...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Libya plans to develop several coastal free zones to link with neighbouring African states through its railway project and create partnerships with the EU. The revelation was made by the Tripoli government’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala...

Posted - 27th January 2021 Libya categorically rejects attempts by some countries to seize some of its frozen funds, the Tripoli based official state news agency LANA reported yesterday. LANA reports that the objection was made by the representative of the...

Posted - 27th January 2021 The Vice President of the Presidential Council (PC), Ahmed Maiteeq, during a meeting with the Ambassador of South Korea to Libya on Monday, Lee Sang-soo, welcomed the forthcoming resumption of work by the Korean embassy in Tripoli. The...

Posted - 26th January 2021 During a meeting with Deputy President of the Presidency Council, Ahmed Maiteq, Monday, the Korean ambassador reaffirmed his country's desire to Work on Developing Relations with Libya in a Way that Serves Common Interest of Both Countries....

Posted - 26th January 2021 MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. Moscow will be among the first world capitals United Nations Secretary General’s new Special Envoy on Libya Jan Kubis plans to visit, Russian President’s Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy...

Posted - 26th January 2021 The Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) have made calls to prospectively halt loading operations at Libya's eastern Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and Marsa el-Hariga terminals amid strike action over unpaid wages, according to Libyan and shipping...

Posted - 26th January 2021 The African continent has been infamous for its desolate conditions and impoverished lifestyle for years. The violence has not spared the region either since the extremely unstable Middle-East has set the vendetta throughout the region,...

Posted - 26th January 2021 In addition to Iran, the Libyan leader received the letters of credence of three other ambassadors from Herzegovina, South Korea and Rwanda. The new ambassadors delivered speeches at the reception ceremony in Tripoli, thanking Libya for the...

Posted - 25th January 2021 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) convened an expanded meeting at its HQ to discuss the return of Korean companies to complete the stalled projects, including the Western Tripoli Steam Station, Al - Zwaitina Electricity...

Posted - 25th January 2021 Libya's new eRegulations website has published a detailed, step-by-step guide to registering a local company in Libya. The project is part of UNCTAD's business facilitation program. Full details can be found here. LIBYA BUSINESS NEWS - John...

Posted - 25th January 2021 Tripoli, 24 January 2021 - The President Of The High National Election Commission Emad Al Sayeh Met On Sunday Fleur Willson Deputy Head Of British Diplomatic Mission In Tripoli.  The meeting which was attended by the Commission Member Abdul...

Posted - 25th January 2021 Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard on Sunday ordered a suspension of oil exports at Al-Hariga port in the eastern city of Tobruk over a pay dispute. The private Al-Ahrar TV tweeted that the paramilitary force, which is affiliated with...

Posted - 25th January 2021 UNSMIL announced yesterday that on 21 January, the co-chairs of the International Follow-Up Committee on Libya’s Economic Working Group (EWG), including Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Stephanie Williams and...

Posted - 25th January 2021 Foreign Minister, Muhammad Siyala, emphasized it is most important for foreign missions to assume their work from Tripoli in light of the current stable security conditions. Siyala's remarks came during his meeting with the newly appointed...

Posted - 25th January 2021 Andersen Global continues to reinforce its competitive edge in the African region through a Collaboration Agreement with full-service tax firm Kashadah & Co. in Libya. Kashadah & Co., founded in 1974 by Office Managing Partner...

Posted - 24th January 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Libya restarted a pipeline that carries crude oil to its biggest export terminal, after a halt that caused the OPEC member’s production to drop to the lowest level in two months. The 32-inch link has been repaired and pumping...

Posted - 24th January 2021 FM Taher Siala said that Libya wants deep, historical, brotherly and Islamic relations with Iran. Libyan Foreign Ministry in a statement announced that Sheibani underscored the importance of developing bilateral relations, cooperation with...

Posted - 24th January 2021 Turkish and Russian forces ignored a deadline to pull out of Libya as scheduled Saturday under a UN-backed ceasefire deal, highlighting the fragility of peace efforts after a decade of conflict, Agence France-Presse reported. Satellite...

Posted - 24th January 2021 Turkey’s adventures abroad are about more than hydrocarbons. They’re a bold and expensive attempt at geopolitical revisionism. In an episode that has tediously repeated itself several times since July, Turkey’s seismic-survey ships and navy...

Posted - 24th January 2021 The ceasefire has held since October, but will it hold until elections on 24 December? Hopes for an end to the decade-long post-Muammar Gaddafi conflict are higher now than they have been for a long time. A ceasefire has held since October...

Posted - 23rd January 2021 TUNIS - Following the decision of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to adopt a selection mechanism for nominating top officials of the unified executive authority, which will lead Libya to elections on 24 December 2021, the United...

Posted - 23rd January 2021 Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) approved yesterday the establishment of two new industrial oils mixing plants in Zawia and Benghazi. The NOC said these would be needed to meet increased domestic demand. The revelation came after...

Posted - 23rd January 2021 On 21 January, the co-chairs of the International Follow-Up Committee on Libya's Economic Working Group (EWG), including Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Stephanie Williams and representatives of Egypt, the...

Posted - 23rd January 2021 First session of fifth round of Libyan political dialogue takes place in Morocco BOUZNIKA, Morocco Libyan rivals agreed Friday on most criteria to select heads of sovereign positions, according to an official. Earlier Friday, the fifth round...

Posted - 23rd January 2021 CNN)Construction on an enormous trench across Libya, dug by Russian-backed mercenaries Wagner, is raising fears that foreign fighters will not withdraw from the country by Saturday, as a UN-brokered peace deal insists. US officials are also...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 Ankara welcomes decision on mechanism, timetable to appoint temporary executive authority ahead of December elections Turkey on Friday welcomed a recent compromise between the warring sides in Libya on a mechanism to appoint a temporary...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 ROME, JANUARY 22 - Khalifa Haftar's forces "are digging an enormous trench from Sirte to the Jufra air base, and Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group are operative in the area", US intelligence sources told CNN. A UN-led road map...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 At this point, key players are increasingly willing to engage in political solutions and have expressed such a desire ISTANBUL  Entering its tenth year, the conflict in Libya continues but developments in the last year highlight changes and...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 Official statistics have shown that Libya's oil and gas revenues decreased by 92 per cent last year, as the blockade imposed for months on oil facilities caused the suspension of most export operations. The Central Bank of Libya announced...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 UNSMIL announced yesterday the start of a one-week period for the submission of candidacies for the positions of a three-member Presidency Council and of Prime Minister, closing on 28 January. This comes following the decision of the Libyan...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 The Governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States respond to recent progress made by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. A joint statement from the UK, with France, Germany, Italy and the US, in response...

Posted - 22nd January 2021 London, 21 January 2021: The state General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) and Turkish implementing contractor, Calik Energy, met yesterday to discuss increased capacity and efficiency of Libya’s electric network, GECOL reported today....

Posted - 22nd January 2021 Libya is seeking funding from foreign oil companies to fix its ailing infrastructure after years of war and neglect, the nation’s top energy official said. The state-owned National Oil Corp. was forced to shut down a leaking pipeline on...

Posted - 21st January 2021 Libya, Niger and Zimbabwe have recovered their right to vote at the United Nations General Assembly after paying off part of their debts to the organization, a UN official said Wednesday. After their right to vote was suspended last week,...

Posted - 21st January 2021 London — Buyers have canceled several Libyan Amna, Abu Attifel and Zueitina crude oil purchases after high mercury levels were detected in the cargoes, sources close to the matter said Jan. 21. The sources said that the issue had so far only...

Posted - 21st January 2021 Tunisia's Ambassador to Tripoli Assaad Ajili met with Head of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla to discuss strengthening cooperation in the oil sector between the two countries. This came during Ajili's visit on...

Posted - 21st January 2021 TRIPOLI, Libya The warring sides in Libya on Tuesday agreed on a mechanism to appoint a temporary executive authority in the country. On the second day of voting in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), 51 members of the body, or 73%,...

Posted - 21st January 2021 The General Electronics Company of Libya received on Wednesday a delegation from the Turkish HAVELSAN company for defense technology, to discuss issues of joint cooperation. The meeting, which was held at the company’s HQ, in Tajoura,...

Posted - 21st January 2021 The Tripoli Protection Force (TPF), the city’s coalition of its main militias, recognized by the internationally recognized Libyan government based in the country’s capital, announced yesterday that it rejects the outputs and the method of...

Posted - 21st January 2021 The Saudi government announced on Tuesday that it is looking to achieve security and stability in the region, as well as supporting political solutions in Yemen, Syria and Libya. In a ministerial council meeting, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz...

Posted - 20th January 2021 Arab League also presses for a solution to threat posed by armed groups and militias as Libya strives for peace. The UN chief urged the departure of all foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya by Saturday as called for in the October 23...

Posted - 20th January 2021 Outgoing acting envoy Stephanie Williams also urges foreign powers to withdraw troops and mercenaries from country A political class stretching across Libya’s east-west conflict lines is determined to maintain the status quo and privileged...

Posted - 20th January 2021 What was the conference about? Having long simmered, the civil war broke out again in April 2019. The parties to the conflict received substantial external support in the form of military equipment and personnel. An end to the escalation was...

Posted - 20th January 2021 Chairman of Libyan-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce Ibrahim al-Garary told Sky News Arabia that both countries contemplate extending Egypt's high-speed electric train - to be accomplished in two years - to Libya. The railway stretches between...

Posted - 20th January 2021 Paris now hopes for the arrival of a new friendly authority that may help it achieve part of its economic ambitions in Libya. TUNIS – The ceasefire in Libya has managed to dispel some of France’s concerns. In all cases, the continuation of...

Posted - 19th January 2021 The Egyptian coastal city of Hurghada is set to host the three-day Libyan Constitutional Committee talks, which are to be attended by members of the Libyan Parliament and the High Council of State (HCS), under the auspices of the United...

Posted - 19th January 2021 Ten years after the 2011 revolution that overthrew Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s civil war has not been resolved. The October 2020 ceasefire between the two main warring parties — Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on the one hand (who leads the armed...

Posted - 19th January 2021 Bloomberg) -- Libyan factions approved a method of selecting a new transitional government, a potential watershed for the OPEC member roiled by years of conflict and division. Some 73% of representatives voting at United Nations-convened...

Posted - 19th January 2021 A leak that forced the shutdown of an oil pipeline in Libya has reduced its recovering oil production by as much as 200,000 bpd, Bloomberg reports, noting the challenges the country faces in ramping up its oil output. The pipeline carries...

Posted - 19th January 2021 Sources say the GNA leader is coordinating with warlords and militia leaders after the failure of his recent visit to Rome. TUNIS - The head of the Libyan presidential council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, sent...

Posted - 19th January 2021 The Head of the Libyan Audit Bureau, Khalid Shakshak warned of serious repercussions of the electricity crisis in the peak heat of next summer due to delayed implementation of significant projects. In a meeting with officials from the...

Posted - 18th January 2021 Tripoli, 18 January 2021(Lana) GNA Minister of Employment and Rehabilitation Al Mahdi Al Ameen discussed with Acting Ambassador of Pakistan Fayadh Ahmed prospects of upgrading exchange between the two countries, particularly the procurement...

Posted - 18th January 2021 Tripoli, 18 January, 2021 (Lana) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of National Accord, "Mohamed Siala," met Sunday, at the Ministry’s office in Tripoli, with the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Libya,...

Posted - 18th January 2021 The US has maintained a relatively passive approach to Libya under President Donald Trump, whose administration largely left the Libyan dossier to Egypt, several Arab Gulf states, Turkey, Europeans, and Russia. In 2021, however, America’s...

Posted - 18th January 2021 The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)-brokered Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) has so far failed to bring the light at the end of the tunnel for the civil war-torn country. For all the hopes many had cherished that the...

Posted - 18th January 2021 The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Sunday that Waha Oil Company would start the necessary repair of the main crude oil pipeline connecting Samah, Dahra fields to Esseder Terminal, thus its production would be reduced by 200,000 barrels...

Posted - 18th January 2021 The Foreign Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Mohamed Sayala, received the Ambassador of Germany to Libya, Oliver Owcza, to discuss developments in Libya and bilateral relations between the two countries. The two parties...

Posted - 18th January 2021 Libya’s oil output has dropped by about 200,000 barrels a day after the closure of a leaking pipeline, underscoring how difficult it is for the country to maintain its production following almost a decade of civil war. The OPEC member’s...

Posted - 18th January 2021 After several daring initiatives, Turkey is slowly becoming aware that the time has come to make policy adjustments in many areas. In terms of domestic policy, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has solemnly announced that important reforms will...

Posted - 18th January 2021 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) has announced that its technical teams had installed and operated two power distribution substations with a capacity of 500 KV as part of the company's efforts to stabilize the public grid....

Posted - 17th January 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Libyan representatives proposed a method to select a new transitional government, the approval of which could help put the OPEC member on a path to stability after a decade of conflict. The recommendation was presented by an...

Posted - 17th January 2021 Participants at talks in Geneva agreed on a mechanism for choosing the new government, whose formation has been the subject of wrangling among the main factions in a country that is a major oil producerA Libyan political dialogue arranged by...

Posted - 16th January 2021 The European Union (EU) announced on Thursday the appointment of Italian born Natalina Cea as head of the EU Border Mission in Libya (EUBAM) to assist in the management of Libyan borders. Cea is set to succeed Vincenzo Tagliaferri, who held...

Posted - 16th January 2021 NEW YORK--The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the UN Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...

Posted - 16th January 2021 Libyan-African Gathering convened Thursday in Tripoli in the presence of ambassadors, diplomats and the Turkish ambassador as an honorary guest. The gathering was an invitation by the House of Representatives and its Foreign Affairs and...

Posted - 15th January 2021 ”We don’t have a formal response yet” to the request of the UN Secretary General who has sent a letter to member states to ask to appoint their observers to be sent to Libya to oversee a ceasefire, Peter Stano, Spokesman of EU Foreign Policy...

Posted - 15th January 2021 Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla met on Tuesday with the Italian Ambassador to Libya Giuseppe Buccino to discuss horizontal cooperation with Italian companies. The meeting which took place at the NOC's HQ...

Posted - 15th January 2021 Two recent seizures indicate traffickers are switching attention away from usual West African gateway to Europe Drugs traffickers are increasingly looking to North Africa as a transhipment point for cocaine, shipowners have been warned. Two...

Posted - 15th January 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Advisory Committee, On the occasion of the Amazigh New Year, the United Nations Mission extends its best wishes to all the Amazigh of Libya, and hopes it will be a prosperous and peaceful year, and that...

Posted - 15th January 2021 British security company, Rose Partners, is helping the Interior Ministry of the internationally recognized Libyan government in Libya a create a ‘‘Supreme Security Chamber’’. The Chamber will be launched on 17 January, the Ministry...

Posted - 15th January 2021 Military alliance will help security building in Libya when conditions permit BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday the alliance is ready to contribute to security building in Libya once conditions allow. The NATO...

Posted - 14th January 2021 Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj on Tuesday convened a meeting with members of the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tripoli to discuss the establishment of a government of national unity (GoNU) aimed at creating an appropriate environment for...

Posted - 14th January 2021 Negotiations in Geneva this week aim to establish a voting mechanism for nationwide elections The UN said on Thursday it will not play any role in the formation of Libya’s next government as peace talks began in Geneva. Libya’s warring sides...

Posted - 14th January 2021 Sources in the UN Security Council announced that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is considering nominating the Slovak Jan Kubis (Kubiš) to succeed Ghassan Salame as UNSMIL head. The news was reported by the...

Posted - 14th January 2021 Tensions have mounted between the interior and defense ministers in the Government of National Accord (GNA) in wake of the former’s announcement of the launch of an operation to rid western Libya of criminal gangs and militias. Defense...

Posted - 14th January 2021 TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The powerful interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government, seen as a contender for the post of prime minister, has expressed hopes that bringing stability to his war-torn country would become a top priority for...

Posted - 13th January 2021 London, 12 January 2021: The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) reported yesterday that it had on the same day signed a contract with Ernst & Young to test its 2019 financial statements. It also announced the launch of what it called the...

Posted - 13th January 2021 Misurata and Tripoli West Simple Cycle Power Plants construction in Libya is about to begin according to Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., a Turkish engineering, and construction company based in Istanbul, Turkey. In a statement, the company said...

Posted - 13th January 2021 The Turkish ambassador to Libya, Serhat Aksen, has expressed Turkish companies' offers to work in litter recycling and infrastructure projects in partnership with Libyan municipalities, in addition to consolidating the sister city agreements...

Posted - 12th January 2021 The newly formed legal committee by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) held a virtual session to present their proposals regarding the basis of the national elections set to take place on 24 December 2021. During the virtual meeting,...

Posted - 12th January 2021 London, 12 January 2021: Libya’s state General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) announced today the acquisition of a new crude oil tanker named, Ebn Hawkel – 2021. The tanker joined its fleet yesterday. The GNMTC said the...

Posted - 12th January 2021 CAIRO (AP) - Officials from Libya´s rival governments met Tuesday in the strategic eastern oil town of Brega for talks aimed at unifying the national budget, officials said, another step forward in efforts to end the yearslong conflict in...

Posted - 12th January 2021 The Italian Defense Minister, Lorenzo Guerini, has confirmed that his county is working to make the technical military agreement with Libya successful. Guerini's remarks came Monday in a meeting in Rome with the deputy head of the...

Posted - 12th January 2021 The head of Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, arrived on Monday in Paris to meet with French officials. Tobruk-based parliament spokesman Abdullah Belhaq said that Saleh arrived in Paris at the official invitation of...

Posted - 12th January 2021 There is a U.N. embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Libya, but it is an abject failure. Its decade-long prohibitions have been openly flouted by various countries, to include states who are members in good standing of the so-called...

Posted - 11th January 2021 From fake news to pushy fixers, the ceasefire monitors will have their work cut out for them As the UN edges towards sending monitors to ensure Libya’s ceasefire deal holds, experts on the North African country fear pressures from the...

Posted - 11th January 2021 On Friday, January 8th the GNA leader Fayez al-Sarraj met with an Italian government delegation led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio; the official meeting took place in Palazzo Chigi. Italy keeps siding...

Posted - 11th January 2021 Members of the Political Dialogue Forum's (LPDF) Legal Committee have agreed to hold intensive sessions during this week to reach consensus around the constitutional basis for holding national elections in December of this year. According to...

Posted - 11th January 2021 Chairman of the Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sarraj, discussed at his residence, in the Italian capital, Rome, with the US Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, the latest developing situation in Libya. According to al- Sarraj’s media...

Posted - 11th January 2021 London, 10 January 2021: Libya has successfully defended a US$ 69 million arbitration claim case by a Turkish company, its Committee for Pending Disputes Abroad of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) reported today. The case was before the...

Posted - 11th January 2021 Turkish and Libyan Defence discuss further expanding on military cooperation between their respective governments The Defence Minister of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), Salah al-Din al-Namroush met with his Turkish counterpart...

Posted - 11th January 2021 National Libyan Archives at risk as Libyan Studies Centre is granted just days to vacate the premises The Libyan Studies Centre has been given three days to vacate the premises and hand over its headquarters by the General Authority of...

Posted - 10th January 2021 Libya’s powerful interior minister says he is relieved by Joe Biden’s US election victory; ready to work with president-elect. The powerful interior minister of Libya’s United Nations-recognised government, seen as a contender for the post...

Posted - 10th January 2021 The Minister of Interior of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bashagha, revealed a large-scale operation to be launched by the security and military authorities to eradicate militants and human traffickers acting contrary to the...

Posted - 10th January 2021 UN Support Mission in Libya says deployment of international monitors aims to ensure implementation of cease-fire in Libya TRIPOLI, Libya Thu UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said Saturday it foresees the deployment of a limited number...

Posted - 09th January 2021 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has welcomed the efforts made in the UN-led Libyan political process after announcing an agreement on legislative and presidential elections. Conte emphasized during his meeting with the Presidential...

Posted - 09th January 2021 Russia has been doing well in Libya — and it likes the fact that few seem to notice it. When describing the relationship between eastern Libyan-based commander Khalifa Haftar and the Kremlin, press articles have been littered with phrases...

Posted - 09th January 2021 Essential state owned energy institutions to work together on eliminating the power deficits and using more renewable energy sources Head of the national oil cooperation Mustafa Sanalla met with the head of General Electricity Company of...

Posted - 08th January 2021 The ideas behind the headlines from the Munich Security Conference had been ripening for years: Germany is ready to play a greater role in international crisis management. To make this policy viable, says Ekkehard Brose, a broad debate is...

Posted - 08th January 2021 London, 8 January 2021: The revelation of the failure of Tripoli University Hospital (TUH) to provide healthcare to its patients during Wednesday’s press conference by its head, Nabil Alageli, is a scathing indictment and personal slap in...

Posted - 08th January 2021 The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has reiterated its commitment to continue supporting the Libyan Economic Dialogue to reinforce Libyan progress in consolidating the budget and improve the transparent management of oil revenues....

Posted - 08th January 2021 ENKA, one of Turkey's largest construction and energy companies, will partner with Munich-based engineering giant Siemens to build two power plants in civil war-torn Libya to meet the country’s growing electricity needs, the Turkish firm...

Posted - 08th January 2021 Download document (PDF | 8.99 MB) https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/REACH_LBY_factsheets_LBY2001a_January2021.pdf CONTEXT Since 2011, Libya has experienced several waves of fighting, and the complex socio-political...

Posted - 08th January 2021 Download document (PDF | 1.31 MB) https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/the-current-situation-in-libya_0.pdf  Nine years after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi, Libya continues to struggle to end its violent conflict and build...

Posted - 07th January 2021 Experts say it's unlikely that the patch up will alter the outcome of the Libyan equation, although some changes on other regional issues may occur. With Saudi Arabia and Qatar signing a friendly bond that ends the three-year long economic...

Posted - 07th January 2021 The first virtual meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s (LPDF) Advi