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 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 - 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...