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Italy to build Libya’s largest highway linking many countries

Italian companies will build Libya’s largest highway that will link both countries going through Tunisia and Egypt, Rome has said. Italian companies are about to restart construction work on Libya’s largest highway, which runs from the Tunisian border to the Egyptian border, Luigi Di Maio, the Italian top diplomat reportedly told local radio Confapi. The […]

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France pledges €1m to back December elections in Libya

France Wednesday committed itself to support with €1 million December elections in Libya as Paris deepens its foothold in the oil-rich African country. The financial promise was made by French Ambassador to Libya, Ms. Béatrice Le Fraper du Hellen through an agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative, Gerardo Noto, Libya Observer […]

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Turkey promises massive investments in Libya

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to bolster his country’s economic cooperation with Libya through massive investments from Turkish companies to contribute to the North African country’s reconstruction. “In Libya, we must now focus on reconstruction, on development and on the well-being of our Libyan brothers,” President Erdogan said Monday during a joint press conference […]

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Libya: Italian, Greek Prime Ministers on official visit

After the visits of several Ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs and the visit of the head of the European Council last week in Tripoli, the Italian and Greek Prime Ministers paid an official visit to Libya on Tuesday April 6 to discuss with the new Libyan executive economic and security issues as well as […]

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Libya welcomes first batch of Russian Sputnik V to roll out vaccination program

Libya Sunday received over 100,000 doses of Russian covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, and will begin the inoculation campaign against the pandemic which has already infected over 160,000 people. Interim Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeiba welcomed the doses which landed at Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli. “Little drops of water make the mighty ocean, and now we […]

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Libya: Release of prisoners, a first step towards national reconciliation

The release of more than 100 prisoners held since the start of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s abortive offensive to seize the capital in 2019, was welcomed locally and by the United Nations.   The prisoners’ release on Wednesday was the result of an initiative of the Zawia City Dialogue Committee under the banner “For the […]

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Rush to re-open diplomatic representations at Libya’s door

As the new Libyan Government of National Unity is endeavoring to unify State institutions and pacify the country, queues are being formed for the opening of diplomatic representations in the North African country.   So, after France reopened its embassy in Tripoli on Monday, China announced plans to re-open its embassy in the Libyan capital, […]

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Head of Libya’s Presidential Council visits Turkey

Mohammad Younes Menfi, chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council (PC) will meet this Friday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Anadolu news agency reports. Menfi, according to Turkey’s Communications Directorate, will be on a working visit at the invitation of Erdogan. This is Menfi’s first trip to Ankara after assuming the role of PC […]

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President Macron recognizes France’s responsibility for disorder in Libya

French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time officially recognized the responsibility of France in the disorder which has been shaking Libya and part of Africa for ten years. “We owe a debt to Libya, very clear: a decade of disorder, » said President Macron while receiving the new Libyan leaders, Tuesday March 23 at […]

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Libya: Warlord al-Werfalli shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Benghazi

A Libyan warlord, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was shot dead on Wednesday March 24 in Benghazi, in the east of the country. Mahmoud al-Werfalli, a member of the forces loyal to Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya and head of the Libyan National Army, was the subject of two ICC […]