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On Thursday, August 22, Brega Oil Marketing Company announced that three tankers had arrived at the ports of Misrata, Tripoli, and Al-Zawiya, each carrying 30 million liters of gasoline. The company stated on Facebook that the fuel would be distributed to stations within two days to alleviate congestion caused by previous delays. Fuel distribution in […]
Algiers and Tripoli were rooted at the bottom of a table as the third and second least livable cities in the world, on par with war-torn Damascus which has kept the notoriety of being the worst city to live in since 2013, the Economist said. Kyiv, at the heart of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, […]
Libya has begun the deportation of 600 undocumented Egyptians who sneaked illegally into the oil-rich African country used as a launch-pad for crossing the Mediterranean for Europe. Mohamad Bardaa, deputy for security affairs at the Directorate of Combating Illegal Migration answering to the Tripoli-based government, told AFP that deportees had entered Libya illegally, Ahram Online […]
Heavy fighting between two influential armed groups on the outskirts of the Libyan capital from Monday to Tuesday August 15 evening left at least 50 people dead and more than 140 wounded, medical sources said on Wednesday August 16. In a “provisional toll” published on Facebook, the Center for Emergency Medicine, which manages rescue operations […]
Six Egyptian nationals held in an irregular detention center in western Libya have set free, Egypt’s oreign ministry announced. “According to the information received from our embassy in Tripoli, the six Egyptians have been released,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Twitter Sunday. “We are following their safe return to the homeland,” he […]
Fighting between militias that broke out on Friday night in Tripoli, against a backdrop of political chaos with two rival governments, left at least 23 people dead and 140 injured, according to a new official report. The clashes between rival militias broke out in several neighborhoods of Tripoli (west) where bursts of gunfire and shelling […]
Libya’s envoy to the UN, Taher El-Sonni, has blamed several unidentified international forces for plotting against elections in North African country adding that the stability of the country is not their concern. “There are certain international forces who fear the idea of elections in Libya because their results are not guaranteed, which may not serve […]
Tunisian authorities have banned Libya’s Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha appointed by the Libyan parliament from using the North African country as a rear base for his political ambitions as he strives to sit his government in Tripoli controlled by forces loyal to outgoing Abdulhamid Dbeibah, the Africa Intelligence reported. Bashagha, a former Libyan Interior Minister, […]
Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) announced on Monday the halt of operations at two major oil sites, the Zouetina terminal and the Al-Charara field, after several other facilities were shut down in connection with protests and political rivalries. The blockades come at a time when Libya, struggling to turn the page on the years of […]
Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi hosted on Sunday Khalifa Haftar and House of Representatives’ (HoR) Speaker, Aqila Saleh in Cairo, as part of Egypt’s support for the political process that led to forming Fathi Bashagha’s government, Libya Observer reports, citing unnamed sources. The sources indicated that the visit came in a time of tension as Bashagha’s […]