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) Advisory Committee (AC), composed of 18 LPDF members, convened yesterday, UNSMIL reported. The meeting discussed the AC’s mandate, tasks, expected outcomes, and the...

Posted - 07th January 2021 The NOC is launching a project to study and improve the Strategic Plan of the National Oil Corporation and support the corporate governance in the oil sector in collaboration with the US Department of Energy Within the framework of...

Posted - 07th January 2021 The lack of security and budgets hinder the supply of gas by the National Oil Corporation (NOC) to the General Electricity Company of Libya’s (GECOL) power stations, it was revealed yesterday. The revelation came during a meeting held...

Posted - 06th January 2021 Just days after new exchange rate went into effect, 20% salary increase for public sector receives approvalThe head of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Serraj issued a statement approving earlier decision to increase the...

Posted - 06th January 2021 London, 6 January 2021: The Interior Ministry of the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli announced yesterday that residents of southern Tripoli that had suffered property damage during Khalifa Hafter’s war on Tripoli will...

Posted - 06th January 2021 The first official visit from Egypt to Libya's internationally recognized Tripoli government aims to prevent a possible military push against strategic Sirte under the control of the rival group. Turkey has been insisting on a Libya strategy...

Posted - 06th January 2021 The Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) approved on Thursday (31 December) new controls to regulate procedures to opening documentary credits. The controls follow on from the CBL Board of Directors decision No. 1/2020 issued on 16 December...

Posted - 06th January 2021 The U.S. under a new administration might pursue a tougher stance on foreign powers intervening in the Libyan civil war, while coordination with Turkey, a major stakeholder with a welcomed presence in Tripoli, remains possible The U.S....

Posted - 06th January 2021 Guards complain of delayed salary payments PFG could make similar moves at other eastern terminals Libyan oil production surged to multi-year highs in Dec London — The Petroleum Facilities Guard at Libya's Marsa el-Hariga terminal is...

Posted - 06th January 2021 The Libyan American Alliance said it had received a correspondence from the US Federal Court and Department of State, saying they won't interfere in the lawsuits lodged at the US courts against Khalifa Haftar, who is a dual Libyan-US...

Posted - 05th January 2021 Kamel Abdallah reviews the outcome of the first visit to Tripoli by a delegation of senior Egyptian officials since 2014 On 27 December a delegation of the Egyptian National Committee on Libya arrived in Tripoli. Delegation members met with...

Posted - 05th January 2021 London — The recent meteoric rise in Libyan oil production surprised many on the oil market but with political stability remaining elusive, the OPEC member might again find it tough to sustain these levels in 2021. Libyan oil output surged...

Posted - 05th January 2021 UNITED NATIONS: Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international monitors to support Libya's brittle ceasefire to be adopted as soon as possible. "We hope that it will be adopted...

Posted - 05th January 2021 London, 5 January 2021: The first virtual meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum’s (LPDF) Advisory Committee (AC), composed of 18 LPDF members, convened yesterday, UNSMIL reported. The meeting discussed the AC’s mandate, tasks,...

Posted - 05th January 2021 Haftar Representative contradicts earlier claims of objections to UN proposal to deploy ceasefire monitors in Libya In a contradictory statement, Director of Haftar’s Moral Guidance Department General Khaled al-Mahjoub denies that Haftar’s...

Posted - 04th January 2021 Norway’s Yara has agreed to sell its entire stake in the Libyan Norwegian Fertiliser Co. (LIFECO) to the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and the National Oil Corp. (NOC). The deal has an effective date of December 31, 2020. The transaction...

Posted - 04th January 2021 The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah has said they are aiming to reach 1.2 million oil barrels per day (bpd) in 2021, adding that this aim is part of the NOC plan for the new year. Sanallah added on...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 Unifying the exchange rate was a condition agreed in a deal between Libya's rival powers Libyans on Sunday began using a new unified currency rate aimed at ending discrepancies between the rates used in the country's divided west and east...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 Members called for the removal of Turkish Military bases demand the UN expel foreign forces from Libya A total of 36 members from the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum called on the United Nations Security Council to expel any and all foreign...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 Tripoli, 3 January 2021(Lana) The UN Support Mission in Libya UNSMIL has published a list containing names of members of the Advisory Committee created by the Political Dialogue Forum which, it said, would operate within a specifically...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has signed a contract to drill ten water wells in Ubari, Al-Ghuraifa, and Bint Bayyah municipalities in the southern region in efforts to end the problem of water shortage in these areas. The NOC expressed...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 Italian Prime Minister affirms Italy's investment in the Libyan crisis in a phone call with US president electItaly’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte held a telephone meeting with the United States president-elect Joe Biden to discuss...

Posted - 03rd January 2021 The Head of the General Union of the Libyan Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture Chambers, Mohammad Al-Reaid, said Friday a delegation of Libyan businessmen will visit Cairo next February to discuss investment and trade cooperation in...

Posted - 02nd January 2021 Misrata International Airport announced the resumption of flights on Friday, one of which was a flight by the Libyan Wings to Tunis Carthage Airport. Libyan Wings announced that it is due to operate scheduled flights from the airport at the...

Posted - 02nd January 2021 The Passports Authority signed on Thursday a contract with  the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), an American multinational technology and consulting company , to develop the electronic visa system. This came within the...

Posted - 02nd January 2021 The Opec+ alliance will meet on 4 January tasked with deciding whether and how to adjust crude production quotas for February, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to muddy the market outlook. The gathering will see the Opec+ group, which...

Posted - 02nd January 2021 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune agreed to intensify joint coordination during the coming period between the two countries to restore security and stability to Libya. This came in a...

Posted - 01st January 2021 Move part of diplomatic reboot of efforts to cajole opposing sides into forming national unity government The United Nations will try to reboot its push towards national unity in Libya by bringing in monitors to oversee a widely flouted...

Posted - 01st January 2021 The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he spoke to the US President-elect Joe Biden and discussed the situation in Libya, reminding him of the need for more US attention to the Libyan crisis. In a press conference in Rome,...

Posted - 01st January 2021 Despite dominating international headlines during the Arab Spring, events in Libya at the time and their consequences today appear to be forgotten. This does not mean, however, that events on the North African coast should be ignored....

Posted - 01st January 2021 London, 31 December 2020: Representatives of the Islamic Development Bank yesterday visited the First Industrial Zone belonging to the Libyan Industry Union (LIU), the LIU reported today. The 162-hectare Industrial Zone on the outskirts of...

Posted - 01st January 2021 London, 31 December 2020: USAID organized three training workshops, each of 3 days duration, to build the capacity of representatives of the public and private sectors in Libya in facilitating positive dialogue. This comes as part of its...

Posted - 01st January 2021 Just over a year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin, appearing against a blaze of national flags representing 40 African countries, addressed a large audience of heads of states and government officials in Sochi, Russia. He was presiding...

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Posted - 31st December 2020 The Libyan Foreign Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Mohammed Sayala asked Wednesday his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for Russia's support for the withdrawal of foreign fighters from Libya. The demand came in a joint...

Posted - 31st December 2020 The outlook for the Mediterranean crude market next year is heavily dependent on the stability of recently restored Libyan exports. Blockades imposed by the Libyan National Army (LNA) halted much of the north African country's crude output...

Posted - 31st December 2020 If Joe Biden wants to produce a constructive record in foreign policy, he needs to repudiate much of the Obama-Biden administration’s foreign policy legacy. In particular, he must demonstrate that the United States is out of the forcible...

Posted - 31st December 2020 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Wednesday against resumption of hostilities in Libya. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow following a meeting with his Libyan counterpart Mohamed Siala, Lavrov promised to provide...

Posted - 31st December 2020 Guterres wants to set up a monitoring group that would include civilians and retired soldiers from regional groups such as the African Union, European Union and Arab League. UN, NEW YORK- UN chief Antonio Guterres has proposed the...

Posted - 30th December 2020 TRIPOLI, Libya The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has called on the Libyan Dialogue Forum to convene on Wednesday to discuss developments in the war-torn country. UNSMIL sent invitations to the Forum members late Monday to...

Posted - 30th December 2020 A change in the UN’s approach and strategy is needed, not its personnel. The sixth UN special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, resigned in his role early March this year, after nearly three years in the post. Salame was appointed Head of the...

Posted - 30th December 2020 CAIRO (Sputnik) – Libya may renew an agreement on the economic cooperation with Russia during the upcoming visit of the foreign minister of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), Mohamed Siala, to Moscow, GNA Deputy Prime...

Posted - 30th December 2020 Egypt has remained silent on an optimism expressed by Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), as a high-ranking delegation concluded a first visit by Egyptian officials to Tripoli since 2014. Deputy Prime Minister of the GNA Ahmed Omar...

Posted - 30th December 2020 The Libyan High Council of State said it would hold a session next Sunday to select the members of the constitutional committee to form the legal framework for the constitutional track in agreement with the House of Representatives in 60...

Posted - 29th December 2020 Libya’s rival sides kicked off a United Nations-brokered prisoner exchange, U.N. and Libyan officials said Saturday, as part of a preliminary cease-fire agreement between the warring Libyan groups. The exchange of the first batch of...

Posted - 29th December 2020 Libya, an oil-producing country which produces some 6,000 megawatts of electricity, has been facing a deficit of more than 1,500 megawatts since 2011. The Libyan General Electricity Company (GECOL) and the National Electricity and Gas...

Posted - 29th December 2020 The Misrata Municipal Council held discussions with the Minister for Transport of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Milad Matouq, on measures to be taken to develop and restore Misrata International Airport. The discussions included...

Posted - 28th December 2020 This research paper shows that Libyan media outlets – particularly television channels, by far the most popular and influential medium – have played a significant role in the civil conflict since 2014. By taking partisan positions and...

Posted - 28th December 2020 Greek says that Turkey cannot hope to join the EU if it continues to violate human rights and laws The Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias expressed his country’s concern with the Turkish plans to establish a base on the coast of Libya...

Posted - 28th December 2020 Visit by senior Egyptian intelligence official and diplomats to Tripoli could be the prelude to other steps. TRIPOLI – Egypt has decided to be more open to the Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, a move that...

Posted - 28th December 2020 The Libyan Iron and Steel Company has expressed satisfaction at Vice President of the Presidential Council (PC), Ahmed Maiteeq, for his receptiveness to the company's demands. "Maiteeq had promised to take urgent measures to solve the...

Posted - 28th December 2020 The Governor of the parallel Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and vice president of the board of directors of the CBL Ali Al-Hibri said the current exchange rate of Libyan dinar to foreign currencies isn't "balanced" so modifying it was very...

Posted - 28th December 2020 After long period of estrangement Egybt considers reestablishing relations with Libya's UN backed government During a visit to Tripoli, Egyptian delegation held talks with GNA officials that aim at removing obstacles and restoring relations...

Posted - 27th December 2020 Visit to Tripoli is the first by an official Egyptian delegation since 2014 TRIPOLI, Libya  An Egyptian delegation arrived in Tripoli on Sunday to meet with Libyan officials, marking the first visit by an official Egyptian delegation to the...

Posted - 27th December 2020 Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar travelled to Libya on Saturday flanked by top military officers to inspect Turkish units in the war-torn country, the official Anadolu news agency reported. The unscheduled visit comes after Libyan...

Posted - 27th December 2020 A final settlement remains out of reach to the Libyan conflict despite a year of negotiations between the country’s warring factions under the auspices of the UN This year was another year of major political, military, and economic ups and...

Posted - 25th December 2020 MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. Statements by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Russia ships weapons to Libya in violation of the weapons embargo, are fakes without evidence, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said...

Posted - 25th December 2020 The 127 bloc of House of Representatives members held a virtual session on Monday and Tuesday (21-22 December), after they were unable to hold their meeting in the city of Ghadames as planned, the Moderate (HoR) Parliamentary Bloc reported....

Posted - 25th December 2020 Turkey is boosting its influence across North Africa, analysts say, intervening militarily in war-torn Libya and using “soft power”, trade and investment in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. While Turkish-made drones have won battles in Libya,...

Posted - 24th December 2020 Donald Trump congratulates the Libyan people on their country's independence and confirms US commitment to supporting Libya Outgoing US President Donald Trump offered his congratulations to the head of the Government of National Accord,...

Posted - 24th December 2020 Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) said its Speaker Aqila Saleh referred 35 members, who are meeting at the Tripoli-based HoR, to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and terminated their posts as MPs. A letter from Saleh to the Interim...

Posted - 24th December 2020 TRIPOLI: Libya's internationally recognised government on Tuesday approved a 20% raise in public sector wages, a spokesman said, boosting a key source of income for many Libyans that has been eroded by inflation. Public salaries account for...

Posted - 24th December 2020 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that international efforts to reach a peace settlement in Libya should be intensified, the RIA news agency reported. Libya descended into chaos after the...

Posted - 23rd December 2020 Political stability and multilateral collaboration are essential to fulfilling the region’s economic potential The geopolitical scene in the Eastern Mediterranean is being reshaped by oil and gas discoveries. Alliances are constantly...

Posted - 23rd December 2020 London, 22 December 2020: Malta has agreed to start issuing Schengen visas from its Tripoli embassy as well as direct flights to Libya and European capitals. The announcement came after a meeting was held in Tripoli yesterday between Ahmed...

Posted - 23rd December 2020 In an interview with the French newspaper "Le Figaro", the Vice President of Libya’s Presidency Council, Ahmed Maiteeq, discussed several important questions and topics related to the future of Libya in many fields. Ahmed Maiteeq spoke in...

Posted - 23rd December 2020 London, 22 December 2020: Prices of goods and services in Libya will decrease next year from 35 to 45 percent and citizens will enjoy an increase in their purchasing power because of the end of the hard currency black-market, Misbah Akkari,...

Posted - 23rd December 2020 The Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov has told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres he will be unable to take up the role as United Nations Libya envoy next year due to "personal and family reasons," the UN spokesman said on Tuesday....

Posted - 22nd December 2020 This essay is part of the series “All About China”—a journey into the history and diverse culture of China through essays that shed light on the lasting imprint of China’s past encounters with the Islamic world as well as an exploration of...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 Lawmakers extend deployment of Turkish troops in war-torn country for another 18 months The Turkish parliament on Tuesday approved a motion calling for an extension in troop deployment in Libya for another 18 months. While the ruling...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 The US Embassy in Libya has reaffirmed its commitment to building opportunities in Libya by improving the business climate for innovation, new businesses, and foreign investment. ‎”Libya's next generation of entrepreneurs and business...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) discussed on Saturday setting up a working mechanism to start implementing the security plan for its two power projects in western Tripoli and Misrata. GECOL stated that the meeting dealt...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 London, 22 December 2020: Acting UNSMIL head Stephanie Williams revealed yesterday that Libya’s High National Election Commission (HNEC) had confirmed that it had received LD 50 million for election preparations from the internationally...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 Conflict within Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) has taken a new course after its head, Fayez Al-Sarraj, ordered the reorganization of the Special Deterrence Force away from the Interior Ministry. The move removes...

Posted - 22nd December 2020 The recent peace talks in Geneva under the aegis of the United Nations have led to guarded optimism about a restart for the Libyan economy. But the fraught question of dividing up oil revenue among factions continues to dog progress. The UN...

Posted - 21st December 2020 A petition signed by thousands of Libyans stating that the peace process in Libya cannot include individuals who have contributed to the destabilisation and destruction of the country was sent to the UN, European Union and the United...

Posted - 21st December 2020 The Economist newspaper estimated that Libya would achieve a GDP growth rate of 20.9% by next year, making it amongst the ten fastest growing countries in the world, particularly since the recovery of oil and gas production in the country....

Posted - 20th December 2020 Amid the fiasco of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), which failed to form an interim government in divided Libya, the result of talks Wednesday between economic institutions representing the two sides to the conflict was an...

Posted - 20th December 2020 The Joint Libyan-Italian Technical Committee for Economic Cooperation has agreed to begin works related to the construction of a coastal motorway, linking the east and west of Libya, due to start in the spring of 2021. This came during a...

Posted - 20th December 2020 Libya’s sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), had some success in London Commercial Court. The LIA is bringing an end to three receiverships first established by the English Courts in 2015 and conclusively affirming...

Posted - 20th December 2020 TATNEFT Company suspended its operations in Libya following the revolution of 17 February, 2011 – NOC A Russian oil company intends to resume production and exploration operations in a number of sites in Syria and Libya, after its...

Posted - 19th December 2020 The UN is continuing attempts to broker peace to end Libya’s deadly civil war and a preliminary deal was agreed in early September. But, with so many factions involved, and major countries backing both sides, no-one can predict what will...

Posted - 19th December 2020 How should the new administration of Joe Biden think about Libya? That country has tried for a decade to create some semblance of stability in the aftermath of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi almost a decade ago. There has been some positive...

Posted - 18th December 2020 London, 18 December 2020: The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) has established its Legal Committee, which starts the countdown to Libya’s 24 December 2021 elections. The announcement was made by UNSMIL yesterday after the LPDF had...

Posted - 18th December 2020 The restart of flights between Malta and the North African country of Libya was one of the topics discussed in a raft of bilateral meetings held over the course of the last two days, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement....

Posted - 18th December 2020 Tripoli, Dec. 16, 2020 Flights from Libya’s Tripoli-Maatiga International Airport to the Tunisian city of Sfax resumed on Tuesday after a stoppage that lasted nearly 10 years, a source close to the management of the airport in the Tunisian...

Posted - 18th December 2020 The Director General of the Libyan Foreign Investment Company discussed on Monday with the President of the Bosnian Chamber of Foreign Trade the activation of the joint Libyan-Bosnian Business Council. They discussed establishing a...

Posted - 17th December 2020 Ten years ago - on December 17, 2010 - a small-town Tunisian street vendor set himself ablaze in frustration at official neglect and indifference, sparking the biggest and most consequential uprisings in the Arab world in 75 years. Rulers...

Posted - 17th December 2020 Late last month, a Pentagon report accused the UAE of providing financial support to Wagner, the Russian private military company (PMC) operating in Libya. For such a public denunciation to be made by the United States of an ally – the UAE...

Posted - 17th December 2020 In a statement, the National Oil Cooperation condemned the attempts of an armed group, under the cover of legitimacy to intervene in the official business and technical responsibilities of Brega Petroleum Marketing Company. The statement...

Posted - 17th December 2020 Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed, Italy's prime minister and foreign minister said Thursday after visiting Benghazi to secure their release. "Our fishermen are...

Posted - 17th December 2020 The Minister of Defense of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Salah Al-Din Al-Namroush, discussed with the Italian ambassador to Libyan, Guiseppe Buccino, the measures which need to be taken to activate the joint military-technical...

Posted - 17th December 2020 The Minister of Defense of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Salah Al-Din Al-Namroush, discussed with the Italian ambassador to Libyan, Guiseppe Buccino, the measures which need to be taken to activate the joint military-technical...

Posted - 17th December 2020 The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) Wiam al-Abdali, and the Director-General of the Company, Ibrahim al-Falah, gave a briefing on Tuesday, before the Tripoli-based House of...

Posted - 16th December 2020 London, 16 December 2020: The reunified Central Bank of Libya (CBL) announced today that it has agreed a new unified official foreign exchange rate for the Libyan dinar (LD). The new rate will be effective as of 3 January 2021. Following on...

Posted - 16th December 2020 The UN Security Council on Tuesday approved a proposal by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov as the UN Libya special envoy and Norwegian Tor Wennesland as the UN Middle East envoy, diplomats said....

Posted - 16th December 2020 The UN Security Council reiterated a call for all foreign fighters to leave Libya in a unanimous statement on December 15 that included the backing of Russia, which has been accused of helping a military contractor send mercenaries into the...

Posted - 15th December 2020 Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in comments at the MED Dialogue, accused the United States of playing political games in the Mediterranean and stalling the appointment of a new UN Special Representative of...

Posted - 15th December 2020 Malta has offered Libya assistance in the education sector, in what Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo equated as offering the North African country the best possible weapon. Bartolo and Education Minister Justyne Caruana visited Tripoli on...

Posted - 15th December 2020 London, 15 December 2020: Libya’s Air Ambulance service yesterday received its new Cessna Citation 680 Latitude aircraft to add to its fleet of air ambulances. The plane was purchased from Textron, the parent company of the Cessna aircraft...

Posted - 15th December 2020 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed new envoys to mediate conflicts in Libya and the Middle East, who could be given the greenlight by the UN Security Council on Tuesday after months of delay, diplomats said. Mr...

Posted - 15th December 2020 The Libyan Defense Minister Salah Al-Namroush met Monday with the Pakistani military attaché Atef Talha and discussed boosting cooperation between the two countries' Defense Ministries. Libya's Defense Ministry said on Facebook that the...

Posted - 15th December 2020 The technical meeting on critical reform to the Libyan economy kicked off yesterday in Geneva to discuss currency reform, the banking crisis, the unification of the national budget, including a time table to implement these reforms. In a...

Posted - 14th December 2020 The Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council (PC), Ahmed Maiteeq received on Sunday the Spanish ambassador to Libya, Javier García-Larrache. Larrache confirmed the depth of Libyan-Spanish relations and the desire of Spanish companies to...

Posted - 14th December 2020 Turkey views the proposal of a Saleh-Bashagha tandem as a threat to its maritime border demarcation agreement with the GNA that has angered Paris and Athens. TRIPOLI – The successive statements issued by the Minister of Defence in the...

Posted - 14th December 2020 The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has given new proposals for the voting mechanism on the (Second and Third Options) that were selected by Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) participants to elect new executive authority in the...

Posted - 13th December 2020 Waha Oil Company has announced the preparation of a residential complex project in the Dahra oil field. The project is part of the residential projects approved by the Management Committee to secure suitable accommodation for the workers,...

Posted - 13th December 2020 Discovery of a record-breaking amount of cocaine was made at the Freeport with the illicit drug being smuggled within pallets carrying cooking oil. The 612kg worth of cocaine was intercepted by Maltese customs on their way to Libya from...

Posted - 13th December 2020 The Leader of the ‘Summit Party’, Abdullah Naker, announced his intention to run for the position of prime minister of the next Libyan government. Naker, a TV repairman-turned-millionaire after 2011, called on the Libyan people to recognize...

Posted - 13th December 2020 Foreigners are still staying clear of the country after a decade of war -- but some 1,000 Libyans recently set off in a pioneering convoy of 300 all-terrain vehicles through the sandy wilderness. Hopeful that the October truce will hold,...

Posted - 13th December 2020 Sirte Oil and Gas Company said Saturday it had starting production in a new natural gas well that had been linked to gas factory at Al-Istiklal field. The company added in a statement that the well would produce 6 million square feet of...

Posted - 13th December 2020 The Minister of Interior Fathi Bashagha signed on Friday a memorandum of understanding with the Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) to strengthen security sector governance in Libya. According to the Interior Ministry, the...

Posted - 12th December 2020 Turkey's presidency on Dec. 12 submitted a motion to parliament to extend troop deployment in Libya for 18 months. "The risks and threats are coming from Libya to Turkey and the whole region. In the case of restart of the so-called Libyan...

Posted - 12th December 2020 Libyan women played an influential role in the country's popular protests that led to the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in October 2011.    Nine years later, as Libya's warring parties discuss a road map to end a civil war and hold...

Posted - 12th December 2020 A spat has broken out between, Saddek El-Kaber, the Governor of the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and Fathi Bashagha, the Interior Minister of the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli. The spat was ignited by...

Posted - 12th December 2020 The merchandise, including stolen cars, was seized between 2018 and 2020 A total of €927,294,000 worth of goods headed to Libya, including stolen cars, have been seized by Customs between 2018 and 2020.  Malta Customs said on Friday that...

Posted - 12th December 2020 GENEVA — The U.N. acting envoy on Libya Stephanie Williams will host an economic working group from Dec. 14-15 in Geneva, to discuss policy reforms, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. The talks, co-chaired by Egypt, the European Union and...

Posted - 11th December 2020 The Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation, Al Mahdi Al Amin, met on Tuesday with the Philippine Ambassador to Libya, Elmar Cato, to review aspects of cooperation between the two countries. The two sides agreed to sign an agreement of...

Posted - 11th December 2020 London — Libyan crude and condensate exports are poised to jump to a 13-month high of 1.24 million b/d this month, according to S&P Global Platts estimates compiled using data from shipping and trading sources. his comes as Libya's oil...

Posted - 11th December 2020 Giorgio Cafiero says the Neighbouring North African country’s non-interference stance is informed by Algeria’s own experiences under French colonial rule. Following NATO’s intervention in Libya in 2011, the oil-rich North African country...

Posted - 11th December 2020 (Bloomberg) -- Libya released two Russians held for the past 18 months on suspicion of election meddling, removing a key source of tension between the internationally recognized government in Tripoli and the Kremlin. Maxim Shugaley and...

Posted - 11th December 2020 London, 10 December 2020: Fathi Bashagha, the Interior Minister of the internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli, met yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tripoli with a delegation from the French company IDEMIA....

Posted - 11th December 2020 Fathi Bashagha, Interior Minister for Libya’s internationally recognized government in Tripoli, yesterday instructed the Head of his Department for Combating Financial Crimes and Money Laundering to prosecute all those involved in...

Posted - 10th December 2020 London, 9 December 2020: The former Libyan Council for Oil and Gas (LCOG), which has changed its name to the Libyan Council for Oil, Gas and Renewable Energies (LCOGRE), organized in Tripoli today a debate on the role of renewable energies...

Posted - 10th December 2020 National Oil Corp. (NOC) and KPMG Tunisia have reached a deal on new financial and administration systems. The Libyan company said it aimed to mechanise its works and introduce digital technology across its operations. NOC will use the new...

Posted - 10th December 2020 The Head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, discussed with the Director General of the Energy Follow-up Department and the General Director of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), along with a number of other company...

Posted - 10th December 2020 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) discussed on Wednesday the completion of the Ubari gas power station project, in order to operate the first and second turbines, with a capacity of 640 megawatts. GECOL’s meeting dealt with...

Posted - 09th December 2020 The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah discussed on Tuesday with the UK ambassador to Libya, Nicholas Hopton, the return of British companies to work in Libya, and the expansion of the partnership in the oil...

Posted - 09th December 2020 The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, stated that he is looking forward to cooperating with the African Union in order to hold a Libyan national reconciliation conference. He stressed that the partnership between...

Posted - 09th December 2020 The Skinny: Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), pools of assets owned by governments typically top-heavy in one area – like exports such as oil and gas – are meant to help governments diversify economic weightings and achieve other national...

Posted - 09th December 2020 If Biden could rein in the likes of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, experts say he may pressure such leaders to reduce their involvement in Libya. Soon after winning the United States presidential...

Posted - 09th December 2020 The National Oil Corporation and KPMG Tunisia sign a contract to use an advisory office for the project of developing a comprehensive system of financial and administrative systems, international marketing, and following-up production and...

Posted - 08th December 2020 London — OPEC and its allies in November pumped their most crude oil since implementing historic production cuts in May, the latest S&P Global Platts survey found, driven largely by Libya's brisk recovery and a rebound in the UAE's...

Posted - 08th December 2020 Members of Libya’s rival House of Representatives will meet today to discuss unifying parliament in preparation for the country’s general elections scheduled for late 2021. Since rebel General Khalifa Haftar and his self-declared Libyan...

Posted - 08th December 2020 LNA spokesman says Jamaican-flagged vessel did not respond to calls for communication before it was captured Forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar have intercepted a Turkish ship off the North African country's coast and...

Posted - 07th December 2020 Through a historical analysis of Turkey’s military intervention in Libya, this essay identifies the various motivations, reasonings, and threat perceptions underlying Ankara’s current Libya strategy. On January 2, 2020, the Turkish...

Posted - 07th December 2020 Focal point of the visit will be Egyptian president’s meeting with counterpart Emmanuel Macron Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi arrived in Paris on Sunday for high-level talks with French officials. Tension in the eastern...

Posted - 07th December 2020 The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced that exports of crude oil, gas and condensate, petroleum products and petrochemicals for the month of November 2020 have amounted to over $700 million with an increase of %204 from last...

Posted - 07th December 2020 A loophole in export legislation is allowing Flemish companies to export parts for aircraft involved in conflict in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, De Morgen reports. In October last year, Turkey took sides in the conflict in Syria, backing...

Posted - 07th December 2020 The ambassador of the United Kingdom (UK) Nicholas Hopton said Britain was ready to assist Libya in clearing mines and DNA tests to identify the victims of the war on Tripoli, a statement by the Defense Ministry said. Hopton and Libyan...

Posted - 07th December 2020 The head of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanallah, met on Sunday with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Investment Authority, Ali Hassan Mahmoud. During the meeting, according to a statement by the NOC, both...

Posted - 06th December 2020 Could talks that recently resulted in a cease-fire and set a date for an election finally help push dangerous international players out of Libya? During the latest round of talks on Libya's future, the acting UN special representative...

Posted - 06th December 2020 Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Friday that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had exempted it from production cuts because of difficult conditions facing the country. A statement issued by the NOC...

Posted - 05th December 2020 (MENAFN) The cost of the clash in Libya since its outburst in 2011 has surpassed USD576 billion, a new study published on Wednesday, December 2, by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) revealed. Named...

Posted - 05th December 2020 Executives of Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) and French firm Total met in on Dec 1 to discuss current preparations to rehabilitate the Mabruk Oil Field which was damaged during a 2015 attack. The rehabilitation is to be fast-tracked and...

Posted - 05th December 2020 ISTANBUL Libya and Italy signed an agreement on military cooperation on Friday. “We agreed with Italy to cooperate in the fields of military training, experience sharing, support, development, maintenance and consultancy,” Libya’s Defense...

Posted - 05th December 2020 The Ministry of Finance of Libya’s internationally recognised government and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a letter of cooperation today that outlines ongoing U.S. support as Libyan authorities work to promote...

Posted - 05th December 2020 TRIPOLI, Libya The participants in the Libyan political dialogue forum started on Thursday to vote on the proposals and suggestions over the mechanisms to select Libyan top officials. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, a member of the dialogue...

Posted - 04th December 2020 The Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord Fathi Bashagha discussed Thursday with the UK ambassador to Libya Nicholas Hopton British support for the Interior Ministry by training security cadres in fighting terrorism and...

Posted - 04th December 2020 Libya’s UN-recognized government said on Wednesday that an urgent meeting of all stakeholders involved had agreed to work toward unfreezing Libya’s oil revenues, an essential part of the OPEC member’s budget income. A meeting earlier this...

Posted - 03rd December 2020 United Nations special representative Stephanie Williams in the second round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) said that the threat of foreign mercenaries is obstructing the path to progress for Libya. In her official statement,...

Posted - 03rd December 2020 The pending issue is naming a replacement for Nickolay Mladenov, UN coordinator for the Middle East peace process. New York--Disagreement continues in the corridors of the United Nations over the appointment of a new UN envoy to Libya to...

Posted - 03rd December 2020 In Morocco the GNA (Government of National Accord) and HoR (House of Representatives) are holding another round of UN-sponsored negotiations. This follows November 1 talks in Ghadames (465 kilometers south of Tripoli, where the Tunisian,...

Posted - 03rd December 2020 In an official letter directed towards the country’s top financial and economic officials, the prime minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA)  Fayez al-Sarraj has called for an emergency meeting to address the frozen oil revenues...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 The Acting Minister of Education, Mohammed Amari Zayed, signed on Wednesday with the Chargé d'Affairs of the Italian Embassy in Libya, Walter De Martino, a memorandum of understanding to support and consolidate cooperation in the field of...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 The American Chamber of Commerce in Libya (AmCham Libya) hosted a virtual meeting with US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland and American companies on Tuesday to exchange views regarding the evolving political process in Libya and...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 The American Chamber of Commerce in Libya (AmCham Libya) hosted a virtual meeting with US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland and American companies on Tuesday to exchange views regarding the evolving political process in Libya and...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 CAIRO (Reuters) - Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Wednesday its Chairman Mustafa Sanallah and Schlumberger Ltd Chief Executive Olivier Le Peuch agreed on technology transfer talks to help restart the country’s oil wells and improve...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 Morocco has hosted four rounds of inter-Libyan talks to help settle the conflict without foreign interference, in the best interest of the Libyan people. Rabat – Libya’s High Council of State has welcomed the results of the November 23-28...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 Sarraj is likely to stay at the helm of the presidential council while a new speaker is elected. BEGHAZI - Speculation is mounting about the future of Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh, who seems to have been the “biggest loser” from...

Posted - 02nd December 2020 The Head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, reiterated on Sunday that the corporation will not release the oil revenues due to the lack of transparency and a clear mechanism from the Central Bank regarding the...

Posted - 01st December 2020 Greek industrial company Mytilineos has announced that after three years of delay due to the internal situation in Libya, is relaunching the construction works for the power generation plant in Tobruk, as "the necessary funding lines that...

Posted - 01st December 2020 Libyan lawmakers meeting in Morocco on Saturday announced that they had reached an agreement that sees the eastern city of Benghazi become the constitutional base for their country’s parliament. A hundred MPs concluded their consultative...

Posted - 01st December 2020 The Libyan Ports Company announced on Sunday the arrival of the marine survey ship ‘Al-Irada 4’ to the port of Tripoli in order to carry out marine survey work in the port. The Company added in a statement on its official Facebook page that...

Posted - 01st December 2020 Commentary: The parties involved in the Tunis talks were willing to respect the truce but little inclined to make political concessions to their counterparts. Uncertainty hangs over the Libyan peace process in which the role of the national...

Posted - 01st December 2020 The Defense Department’s inspector general found that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner Group mercenaries—just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars worth of arms. The United Arab Emirates is apparently...

Posted - 30th November 2020 Prime Minister meets with head of Eni oil to discuss possibilities for growth and development in Libya Head of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord Fayez al-Sarraj met today with representatives of the Italian oil...

Posted - 30th November 2020 Leaked letters going back and forth have continued to bring to light the ongoing tug-of-war between the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and the National Oil Corporation (NOC) over who has authority to process Libya’s oil revenues. The...

Posted - 30th November 2020 A source inside the Libyan embassy in Tunis reported that the Tunisian authorities prevented the former Tripoli rebel commander Haithem Al-Tajourii from entering its lands. The source, who preferred not to be identified, told Ean Libya that...

Posted - 30th November 2020 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) held a meeting with the Tobruk Municipal Council to follow up the implementation of the Tobruk gas power plant project, in order to solve the obstacles and difficulties that hinder the...

Posted - 29th November 2020 The Russian state-affiliated private military company known as the Wagner Group has proven adept at leveraging instability or weak institutions to further Russian influence abroad. Throughout 2020, the Russian Federation and Wagner have...

Posted - 29th November 2020 Talks in Tangiers on Friday aimed to accelerate the development of economic ties between the two North African countries. abat – A meeting between industry officials in Tangiers on Friday crowns a year of deliberations to strengthen...

Posted - 28th November 2020 The US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland on Friday said that the US decision to impose sanctions on the Kaniyat militia shows it is serious about taking actions in response to human rights violations, corruption and against those who...

Posted 28th November 2020 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) has announced that the second turbine of Khums power station is connected to the public grid, with a capacity of 260 megawatts, after a hiatus of more than two years. GECOL said in a statement...

Posted 28th November 2020 Itamilradar, a website on military aircraft tracking in Italy and the Mediterranean, has disclosed movements for Turkish military transport aircraft above the center and east of the Mediterranean towards Libya. he website noted that it...

Posted 28th November 2020 The former US envoy to Libya Jonathan Winer said Washington could adopt a "pragmatic approach" to Libya under the new Joe Biden Administration to replace the negligence approach of Donald Trump Administration. Winer added in an interview with...

Posted 27th November 2020 Mustafa Sanalla, National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman met throughout the last three days in Istanbul with both of the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and Roberto Lorato Chief...

Posted 26th November 2020 IRINI has become a clear manifestation of how some members of the Union have taken hostage the EU27 leadership for the sake of their narrow-sighted interests in the Eastern Mediterranean ISTANBUL On Nov. 23, 2020, the Eastern Mediterranean...

Posted 26th November 2020 Tripoli. The Head of Airport Authorities Mohamed Beitu Almal yesterday discussed with Spanish Ambassador to Libya Javier Larache ways of upgrading cooperation between the Authority and Spanish companies in executing construction an...

Posted 26th November 2020 Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Mohamed al-Kani (al-Kani) and the Kaniyat militia, which is responsible for the murder of civilians recently discovered in...

Posted 26th November 2020 Led by Faraj Bumtari, the joint Minister of Finance and Minister of Economy, the General Assembly of the Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) held what it referred to as a preliminary meeting during which agreement was reached on the criteria and...

Posted 26th November 2020 The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) disclosed that its Board of Trustees has approved the term extension of current Chairman Dr Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed, and the Board of Directors for a further three years. The term of the Board of...

Posted 25th November 2020 Speaker of Libya’s Chamber of Representatives Aguila Saleh Issa visited Russia on an invitation from the Russian parliament's lower chamber MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. Russia is interested in resuming full bilateral cooperation with Libya in...

Posted 25th November 2020 CAIRO - 23 November 2020: The speaker of the eastern-based Libyan parliament, Aguila Saleh will pay an official visit to Moscow in the next few days to meet with Russia's top officials to discuss Libya's agenda, a media advisor in the Libyan...

Posted 25th November 2020 Libya’s rivals have begun a second round of talks on a mechanism to choose a transitional government that would lead the conflict-stricken country to elections in December next year, according to the United Nations. UN acting envoy for Libya,...

Posted 25th November 2020 In the last days of September 2020, Libya’s oil industry seemed to be on the verge of restarting its production after Gen. Khalifa Haftar announced the reopening of the oil fields and terminals that he had occupied and closed in the course of...

Posted 24th November 2020 In the presence of Acting SRSG Stephanie Williams during the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) held in Tunis under her leadership and facilitated by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the Deputy General Director/Central Director...

Posted 24th November 2020 Examining key issues for the new US administration such as the Iran nuclear deal, Iraq crisis, chaos in Libya and Syria, and Israeli-Palestinian relations. 1. How is a Biden victory perceived across both sides of the Gulf? Dr Sanam Vakil Iran...

Posted 24th November 2020 London — An armed group attempted to break into the Tripoli headquarters of Libya's National Oil Corporation on Nov. 23 as the state-owned company finds itself in a dispute over oil revenues with the country's central bank. The incident comes...

Posted 24th November 2020 Germany on Monday accused Turkey of obstructing peace in Libya after it prevented German forces belonging to a European Union military mission carrying out a full search of a Turkish cargo ship that they suspected of taking weapons to Libya....

Posted 24th November 2020 The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) is planning to carry out essential maintenance and upgrading work for the power lines running between the east and west wings of the national public grid. The repair work is part of the...

Posted 23rd November 2020 A statement released by United Nations Development program showed that Italy provided a contribution of 450,000 Euros (About 526,000 dollars) to the Libyan Political Dialogue forum that was held in Tunisia between the 9th and 15th of...

Posted 23rd November 2020 In a press release, the National Oil Corporation confirmed that it will not be transferring revenue funds to the Central Bank of Libya due to a lack of trust and transparency in the bank. “Revenues will not be transferred to the Central Bank...

Posted 23rd November 2020 Camco Oilfield Services has signed a strategic services agreement with Weatherford, under which it aims to increase its market share in Libya. Camco announced the agreement on November 22. Working together, the two companies will provide...

Posted 23rd November 2020 Much of the telecom infrastructure was destroyed or stolen following the 2011 disturbances, including about a quarter of the country’s mobile tower sites. Reconstruction efforts continue to be stymied by political and military disturbances...

Posted 23rd November 2020 The members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) in eastern region (Tobruk city) have been allowed to fly to Tangier, Morocco ahead of a Monday deliberations session with their Tripoli-based colleagues who have already arrived in the...

Posted 23rd November 2020 11 legal organizations and civil societies have lodged a complaint with the Libyan Attorney General over the "bribes given to participants of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Tunisia this month" and have called on the UNSMIL to continue...

Posted 22nd November 2020 Fathi Bashagha looks to France for support ahead of elections Libya’s interior minister has completed a three-day charm offensive in France, as a tentative ceasefire in the war-torn country holds and diplomatic jostling for its leadership...

Posted 22nd November 2020 The High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, said that France had placed the port of Marseille at the full disposal of Operation IRINI. Borrell added in a press statement that the port is...

Posted 22nd November 2020 Libyan Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bachagha, has announced the order of 10 modern helicopters from European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, to reinforce the ministry’s capacity. “We will soon receive 10 modern...

Posted 22nd November 2020 The Libyan Businessmen Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Turkish Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MUSIAD). The MoU was signed on the sidelines of the "MUSIAD Expo Trade Fair" currently taking...

Posted 21st November 2020 A nascent peace process will require dialogues at the grass roots to build its legitimacy among Libyans. Libyans have taken an uncertain step toward ending nearly a decade of civil war, agreeing in U.N.-mediated talks to hold national...

Posted 21st November 2020 Tunis, 19/November/2020 –   The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Mr. Gerardo Noto, and His Excellency, the United Kingdom (UK) Ambassador to Libya, Mr. Nicholas Hopton, signed an agreement today by which...

Posted 21st November 2020 A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), was held yesterday, Wednesday, in the capital Tripoli.  A source tells Libyan Express that the meeting consisted of GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, and members from the...

Posted 20th November 2020 Libyan crude exports recovered to almost half pre-blockade levels last month, with Spain and Italy the biggest buyers. Argus tracking shows Libya shipped 489,000 b/d of crude in October, more than triple the amount exported in September but...

Posted 20th November 2020 Rival forces in Libya have failed to begin withdrawing as required under an October ceasefire agreement aimed at ending years of conflict following Moamer Kadhafi's 2011 killing, a UN envoy said Thursday. Last month's ceasefire formally ended...