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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush commended, Tuesday in Fez, the “positive role” of Morocco in supporting stability in Libya. “The Kingdom of Morocco has always played a positive role in supporting stability in Libya and the efforts of the Government of National Unity and Libyan institutions to move forward and achieve a constitutional basis for […]
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 […]
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin has for the first time acknowledged he is “proud” of founding Wagner Group, a private military company, in 2014, staffed by veterans of the country’s armed forces. After previously denying ownership and suing journalists for reporting it, this was Prigozhin’s first public confirmation that he was the man behind the mercenary […]
Arab foreign ministers stressed, at the end of their Ministerial Council held on Tuesday in Cairo, the importance of the Libyan political agreement signed in Skhirat in 2015 to settle the crisis that the country has been facing for several years. A resolution adopted by the Ministerial Council of the League of Arab States on […]
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, […]
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. […]