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Libyan factions’ leaders, namely President of the Libyan parliament Aguila Saleh and President of the Libyan High Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri held talks in Morocco in a bid to relaunch dialogue and find a political solution to end their country’s long-running dispute. The two officials’ meeting in Rabat highlighted Friday by agreement to implement […]
Libya’s Presidential Council, PC, has taken distance from the energy agreement signed between the Libyan outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU) and Turkey. The PC said in a statement that the agreement requires consultation with the Council, stressing at the same time the importance of cooperation with all brotherly and friendly countries in the interest […]
Türkiye and Libya on Monday signed a series of preliminary economic agreements that included potential energy exploration in maritime areas, the Turkish foreign minister said, emphasizing strong relations between Ankara and Tripoli. The agreements will allow for oil and gas exploration in Libyan waters and come three years after the two countries signed a maritime […]
Morocco has welcomed the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily as Special Representative for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in the North African Country (UNSMIL), and vowed to fully support the Senegalese diplomat. Morocco welcomes the appointment by the UN Secretary General of Abdoulaye Bathily as Special Representative for Libya and Head of UNSMIL, […]
Fighting between militias that broke out on Friday night in Tripoli, against a backdrop of political chaos with two rival governments, left at least 23 people dead and 140 injured, according to a new official report. The clashes between rival militias broke out in several neighborhoods of Tripoli (west) where bursts of gunfire and shelling […]
An explosion at nitrogen unit of well A55 in the Entissar field of the Zueitina Oil Company caused Thursday the death of a worker and injuries to another, Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced, Libya Observer reports. The casualty, the NOC indicated, was a worker from the Al-Nisr Company, which is carrying out work […]
The Libyan Armed Forces, led by eastern military leader Khalifa Haftar, announced Monday having brought down on the outskirt of Benghazi a drone armed with two missiles. The Director of the Moral Guidance Department of the self-style army General Command, Major General Khaled al-Mahjoub, in Facebook post, said that air defenses targeted and downed an […]
Libya’s Public Prosecutor Siddiq Al-Sur announced the discovery of 3,329 forged voter registration cards in Libya’s election database system, as calls for elections come mainstream. Al-Sur made the announcement Wednesday during a press conference regarding the development of investigations into the national number system and the database of those registered to vote in the elections. […]
The South Tripoli Court of Appeals has once again postponed its ruling on the case of former chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, to September 7, reports say. Sanalla appealed in July before the judiciary his removal from the chairmanship of the NOC by Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh. He rejected Dbeibeh’s […]
The UN Security Council held a meeting yesterday on the situation in Libya. The issue of the difficult appointment of a new special envoy to Libya was widely discussed. The post has been vacant since the resignation of Slovakian Jan Kubis eight months ago. The international community, strongly divided, cannot agree on a new envoy. […]