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Italy Thursday expressed concerns for the possibility of new waves of migrants flooding its shores from Libya, if elections scheduled on December 24 in the North African country are not held, Libya Observer reports. Luigi Di Maio, the top Italian diplomat raised the issue during a meeting with his American counterpart, Antony Blinken, at a […]
Libyan lawmakers of the eastern-based Parliament have agreed on holding presidential election on Dec.24 as scheduled but decided to postpone the parliamentary elections until January without giving explanations. The announcement was made Tuesday by spokesperson for the eastern-based parliament Abdullah Bliheg, affirming that the presidential poll was the priority. The House of Representatives, based in […]
Egypt has asked Turkey to suspend the military agreement signed with Libya as part of conditions to normalize ties between the two countries. Egypt and Turkey held several high-level security and intelligence meetings to thaw ties, strained since 2013 after Ankara cut ties with Cairo in the wake of incumbent Egyptian president Fattah al-Sisi’s military […]
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah launched Sunday the construction of South Oil Refinery, a new plant at Sharara, the country’s largest oil field. Dbeibah signed two decrees at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in capital Tripoli, giving the country’s oil giant right to contract directly and to finance the implementation […]
US envoy to Libya Richard Norland thanked Morocco for facilitating talks between Libyans with a view to preparing for Dec. elections. Rabat hosted last week two-day talks between representatives of the House of Representatives and the High State Council with the participation of UNSMIL as a technical facilitator. “We thank Morocco for its willingness to […]
The United Nations has called on Libyan authorities to respect the human rights and dignity of all people, including migrants and asylum-seekers, voicing serious concern over the use of excessive force against migrants and asylum seekers in Tripoli. According to press reports, one migrant was killed and at least 15 others injured, six seriously, when […]
The UN expressed, on Saturday, its support for the outcome of the consultative meeting, held on Thursday and Friday in Rabat, between the delegations of the Libyan House of Representatives and the High State Council on the legal framework of the upcoming elections in Libya planned for December 24. The United Nations Support Mission in […]
Delegates of Libya’s High Council of State (HCS) and the House of Representatives (HoR) started Thursday a two-day meeting in Rabat, Morocco’s capital, to hammer out a consensus on the electoral law ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for next December 24. The participating delegations issued a statement saying the Rabat meeting on […]
The US House of Representatives has passed the ‘‘Libya Stabilization Act’’ (HR 1228) in a move to advance a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Libya and support the people of Libya. Under the act, the US can sanction activities of rebel General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) with respect to Syria (currently under […]
Libya’s deputy Oil and Gas minister Refat Al-Abbar has tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah citing personal reasons, Libya Observer reports. Al-Abbar thanked Dbeibah for his trust and said he has been happy to take on the job over the last few months, working on solving problems in the oil and gas sector […]