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Plans are underway for Algeria, Libya and Egypt to replace 50% of Russia’s Gazprom natural gas supply to Europe. Italy’s largest utility, Enel SpA, hopes that the development efforts that are ongoing in oil and gas sectors of these North African countries, especially in Algeria, will ease the process. Europe is seeking to reduce its […]
Libya’s newly appointed foreign Minister, Mohamed Dayri, who assumed his post at the end of last month has said that the Tobruk based government wants a “settlement” deal with the government and parliament in Tripoli in order to from a unity government that will end Libya’s chaos. He doesn’t think that there is a possibility […]
The internationally recognized parliament in the eastern town of Tobruk has decided to join hands with the renegade former general, Khalifa Haftar, to fight against the Islamists. The move is contradictory to the parliament’s previous call for all armed groups to lay down their arms. Haftar has recently launched Operation Dignity in his fight against […]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has stated that armed groups fighting in the Libyan war are increasingly targeting human rights defenders since mid-May. Some of the human rights activists have already fled the country while others have gone underground to save their lives. Attacks on civilians are also on the […]
The governments of several countries namely Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States together with the European Union and United Nations have released a joint statement calling for an end to the violence in Libya in order to pave the way for development and […]
Two important political institutions in Libya have taken their challenge of being the country’s legitimate representative to another level as the country deepens further into turmoil. Libya has two Prime Ministers claiming legitimacy and they both took time to denounce the other as each side promised victory to its supporters. The country has two parliaments […]
The House of Representatives, Libya’s parliament based in Tobruk, has rejected a team of cabinet ministers presented by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni to form the new government. The rejection comes as another blow to the political transition of a country that seems to head for a civil war. According to Speaker Faraj Hashim, one of […]
Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou has described Egypt as “a green oasis in the middle of this desert” as he made references to the ongoing turmoil in Libya, Iraq and Syria. The Minister is hopeful that Egypt’s tourism sector will be back to its golden days by the end of next year if there are no […]
Libya has warned that it will break its diplomatic relations with Sudan if it continues to interfere in its internal affairs. Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni made this statement due to Sudan’s continuous denial that its military airplane which landed at Kufra airport, south of Libya, was loaded with ammunitions destined for the Islamist groups in […]
Libya’s newly elected parliament, the House of Representatives, that has chosen Tobruk as its headquarters is seeking refuge in Elyros liner, a Greek car ferry, as tension in the country continues to rise and the authority of the government dwindles drastically. The capital Tripoli and most of Benghazi are under the control of the Islamists […]