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Libya’s national carrier, Afriqiyah Airways, operated Tuesday a commercial flight between the eastern city of Benghazi and Misrata (West) for the first time since 2014 in a sign of reconciliation. The airline announced the resumption of flights between the two cities in a statement, saying it will operate two weekly flights between Benghazi and Misrata. […]
Delegates of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum entrusted by the UN with electing a Prime Minister reportedly received bribes to elect Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, who was elected on February 5, according to leaks of a UN report revealed by AFP on Sunday, February 28. At least three members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum […]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) Sunday said it won in appeal against Libyan-Emirati Oil Refining Company (LERCO) with respect to the Ras Lanuf Refinery dispute dating back to January 2018. NOC on Facebook said Paris Court of Appeal ruled that LERCO will pay over $115 million, plus benefits. The amount, including the benefits as […]
Speaker of Libyan Parliament Aguila Saleh said the interim government of technocrates should have representatives from all Libyan regions and work for the best interest of the country. Speaking following talks with Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita in Rabat Friday, Saleh said the Libyan Parliament will meet in Sirte where security conditions are propitious or […]
It is an unnamed organization chart that the Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid Dbeiba, transmitted, Thursday, Feb. 25, to the heads of the Presidential Council and the Parliament. He said at a press conference held in Tripoli that his government formation was ready but that the chosen members will only be revealed before the Parliament. […]
Interior minister of the Tripoli-based UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), escaped on Sunday an assassination attempt by gunmen who opened fire on his convoy in Tripoli. The attack occurred as the minister was returning home after visiting the National Oil Corporation. One of Bashagha’s guards and one of attackers were killed during the exchange […]
The United Nations has highlighted the important work carried out by Morocco in pushing forwards the peace process in Libya. In this regard, the new UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, has had various contacts on the Libyan issue with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. According to a statement from the […]
Egypt is expected to re-open its embassy in Libya today Monday as a high key diplomatic delegation visits Tripoli for the second time since 2014. Libya’s foreign ministry’s spokesman Mohammed Al-Qablawi in a statement to Anadolu indicated that the delegation made of diplomats and security personnel would visit the Libyan capital and will re-open the […]
The new Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba has commended on Thursday Morocco’s renewed determination to continue to support national reconciliation in Libya. This came in a tweet he posted on Thursday evening, after a phone call with Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita. Dabaiba, who was elected on February 5 in Switzerland as head of […]
Morocco has joined its voice to the international community to welcome last Friday’s election by the UN-led Libyan Political Dialogue Forum of an interim executive authority in Libya, in which Mohammad Younes Menfi will head the country and Abdelhamid Dbaibah will head the government. Morocco congratulates the new members of the Libyan Presidential Council and […]