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Libya’s main rivals have agreed to hold elections in a bid to preserve stability in the country and unify institutions, the UN said. Faiez Serraj of the UN-backed Presidential Council (PC) and Khalifa Haftar, military commander and supporter of Beida-based rival administration, agreed Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hold elections in the […]
Mustafa Sanallah, the Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), which manages the North African country’s oil exploitation, Sunday said the Sharara oilfield in the South remains shut down because of the presence of armed forces. The Sharara oilfield, Libya’s biggest, has come to a standstill since December after some armed groups seized it to […]
UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Thursday in a statement vowed to bring to book assailants and culprits who killed Wednesday head of the security in the southern town of Murzuk, which reportedly fell in the hands of fighters aligned with the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. Armed men stormed the residence of General Mohammed Kari, […]
Libyan interior minister Fathi Bashagha commended on Monday Morocco’s contributions to his country’s stability, stressing the importance of the UN-brokered agreement inked by Libya’s warring factions in the Moroccan coastal town of Skhirat in 2015. This agreement remains the ideal framework to achieve national reconciliation, he said at a press briefing held in Rabat following […]
Tunisia Sunday said its 14 citizens held hostage in neighboring Libya have been freed following the intervention of Libyan authorities. The Tunisian foreign ministry expressed satisfaction at the release of the fourteen Tunisian workers, kidnapped on February 14 by a Libyan armed militia in Zaouia. The kidnappers had claimed the release of a Libyan detainee […]
The USA Thursday refuted statement by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) that it conducted in coordination with the Tripoli-based administration a raid on some al-Qaeda fighters, in southern Libya. The US military command headquartered in Germany, Stuttgart, in a statement said it did not take part in the operation announced on Wednesday by […]
UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has said it allowed a US airstrike on al Qaeda fighters in the southern city of Ubari. The raid, according to spokesman for GNA leader Faiez Serraj, hit Wednesday a number of fighters of the terror group near Ubari, 900 km south of Tripoli. “This joint work between the […]
East-based Libyan National Army (LNA) opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) headquartered in Tripoli, has confirmed its full control of the Sharara oilfield, the country’s largest. Spokesman of the LNA Monday on Twitter said the Sharara oilfield in the southern Libyan desert, which produces a third of Libya’s 1 million barrel per […]
UN-backed government of National Accord (GNA) has condemned the Libyan National Army (LNA)’s seizure of Sharara oil field, the country’s largest, and said it has sent forces to dislodge the east-based army led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the Guardian reports. The forces, under the Tripoli-based GNA led by Faiez Serraj, had traveled to the […]
Qatar’s National Bank (QNB) has relinquished its shares in Libya’s largest private bank, Bank of Commerce & Development. Bank of Commerce & Development in statement said it bought QNB’s equities, 49 per cent, Libya Observer reported. Libyan investors acquired the equities, according to the bank. QNB announced six months ago it was pulling out of […]