(MENAFN- Famagusta Gazette) The Libyan Foreign Ministry and the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on coordination and cooperation in managing and securing Libyan borders and in fighting against border crimes and terrorism, EUBAM said in a statement. The signing ceremony was held at the ministry's headquarters in the Libyan capital Tripoli, and was attended by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Taher Albahour and the Head of the European delegation to Libya Nicola Orlando. The partnership also includes support for enhancing cross-border cooperation with Libya's neighboring countries, including in the Sahel, it added. “The MoU we signed today is another important milestone that will allow us to deepen our cooperation with EU and its member states on border management and security, and our joint fight against cross-border serious crimes and terrorism,” said Taher Albahour. “The MoU represents an important step forward in the ongoing efforts to tackle security challenges the country faces,” the Head of the EUBAM Libya Mission Natalina Cea said.

Extreme rainfall from hurricane-strength Storm Daniel hit eastern Libya on September 10, flooding the city of Derna and other neighbouring towns and regions. UNESCO experts are expected to visit Cyrene, a World Heritage Site that is threatened with collapse after the flooding sent water circulating around its foundations. Other sites of rich archeological heritage in Libya will also be inspected, notably the "Ancient City of Ptolemais and The Haua Fteah Cave, both of which are on the national World Heritage Tentative List, as well as the ancient city of Apollonia". In the framework of this mission, requested by Libya, UNESCO intends to examine how to contribute to "helping rebuild the affected areas". According to the last toll given on Thursday by authorities in eastern Libya, the floods in Derna left 4,200 dead, while thousands more remain missing.Support Forces.

The Wagner group’s web in Libya Federica Saini FasanottiRussia has developed a complex network of influence in Libya through the Wagner group and will likely keep using private military actors to maintain its leverage. Moscow needs the Wagner group not only for strategic reasons, but primarily for economic ones. Mr. Lavrov stated that the Wagner group would continue to operate in the Central African Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso, as well as in Libya. A brief history of the Wagner group in LibyaThe presence of the Wagner group alongside the LNA first became apparent at the beginning of the siege of Tripoli in April 2019. There may be a rebranding of the Wagner group, a new leader more loyal to President Putin, or entirely new companies.

Libyan divers are left to find bodies still buried missing at sea after most international relief teams left. “I can’t help but think of my own children when I’m retrieving children who drowned. I’ve been away from my family for days,” El-Hassi said, his eyes gazing away. “One of the bodies was stuck under the rubble of a building and the fish were eating it. El-Hassi and the divers make their way back to Derna’s Mina Port after the gruelling mission.

The first scheduled services saw Air Malta fly to the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Libya. Air Malta was Dom Mintoff’s brainchild in a Malta that was industrialising and finding its feet economically ahead of the withdrawal of British forces in 1979. After two unsuccessful attempts to rescue the airline in 2004 and 2010, Air Malta plc will be wound down to make way for KM Malta Airline plc. The new State-owned company will inherit the Air Malta brand name but only if it successfully wins a bidding process. “When I was at Air Malta, at budget time the minister used to go around to see what employment he could factor in.

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GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – Two huge disasters have hit northern African countries in the past month – a major earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya caused by Storm Daniel. The scientists found that human-caused climate change has made heavy rainfall in north-eastern Libya up to 50 times more likely to occur than it would have been in a world not experiencing human-caused climate change. They found that there was up to 50 percent more intense rain than there would have been in a comparable rainstorm in a pre-climate change world. The scientists are clear that, even in a 1.2°C ‘warmed’ world, the rainfall that fell on Libya was extreme. Still, “climate change was a significant factor,” they said.

"Haftar and his troops only trust the Red Crescent, but we couldn't do much as the crisis was so big. We needed all the help we could get," said the aid worker, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, for fear of being targeted by Gen Haftar's troops.

TRIPOLI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan Foreign Ministry and the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on coordination and cooperation in managing and securing Libyan borders and in fighting against border crimes and terrorism, EUBAM said in a statement. The signing ceremony was held at the ministry's headquarters in the Libyan capital Tripoli, and was attended by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Taher Albahour and the Head of the European delegation to Libya Nicola Orlando. The partnership also includes support for enhancing cross-border cooperation with Libya's neighboring countries, including in the Sahel, it added. "The MoU we signed today is another important milestone that will allow us to deepen our cooperation with EU and its member states on border management and security, and our joint fight against cross-border serious crimes and terrorism," said Taher Albahour. "The MoU represents an important step forward in the ongoing efforts to tackle security challenges the country faces," the Head of the EUBAM Libya Mission Natalina Cea said.

The floods that killed more than 5,000 people in Libya in early September damaged the ruins of Cyrene, a 2,600-year-old Greek settlement in the mountains above the devastated city of Derna. At Cyrene, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, earth and stones were washed away by the waters. Among the impacts so far observed at Cyrene by local authorities is the mud and rubble now occupying the site’s baths. Despite the damage, the deluge of water also revealed a previously unknown Roman drainage system, one Boufja says is a distinctive discovery for the city. Cyrene, known locally as Shahhat, is one of Libya’s leading archeological sites.

Thousands of civilians lost their lives when Storm Daniel hit north-eastern Libya on September 10. The natural disaster also displaced tens of thousands of people, and fundamentally disrupted critical services in Libya, including the education system, the protection of heritage sites and water management. Libya requested UNESCO's assistance in helping rebuild the affected areas, as part of its mandate for education, culture and science. The UNESCO delegation is then scheduled to visit the site of Cyrene, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1982 and on the List of World Heritage in Danger since 2016. Lastly, the UNESCO delegation will visit Derna, one of the towns hit hardest by the disaster, to assess the damage to educational and heritage buildings.

Loren Cunningham, the charismatic visionary who launched Youth With a Mission (YWAM) and mobilized millions of young people for short-term trips, died on Friday morning. The organization stopped counting how many young people it sent on short-term missions in 2010, when the total number was around 4.5 million. In his later years, Loren Cunningham remembered learning that the leading of the Spirit could be a matter of life or death. Darlene Cunningham implements the visionWhen Cunningham met a young woman named Darlene Scratch in 1962, the struggling missionary organization was sending out about five annually. But Scratch, who had herself dreamed of cross-cultural ministry after her uncle was imprisoned for missionary work in Communist China, saw some ways to implement the YWAM vision practically.

Benghazi is controlled by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), the military coalition that controls eastern Libya and has shown little tolerance for internal opponents. The U.N. Libya mission said in a social media post on Monday it was concerned by the clashes and the disruption to communications. The LNA did not immediately issue a statement and it, and Benghazi residents, could not be reached by Reuters for comment amid the communications blackout. A leader of the Barghatha clan, part of eastern Libya's influential Awaqir tribe, said it had been working to effect a reconciliation between Haftar and Barghathi. Libyan media outlets reported that clashes erupted on Friday evening soon after Barghathi's arrival in his home area in Benghazi's Salmani neighbourhood.

Russia has had close relations with Haftar for years, and the Russian deputy minister of defence had visited Haftar in the immediate aftermath of the floods. According to Harchaoui, Haftar has intensified these efforts since August. Haftar, who is the de-facto authority in Libya's east, has intensified his ties with Russia in the aftermath of the deadly floods. The Russian armed forces seized that opportunity to reiterate its long-dated interest in establishing a permanent naval base in Libya,” Harchaoui explained. “It is probable that [US officials] privately cautioned Haftar against intensifying his ties with Russia,” Harchaoui said.

Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast have shared their ordeal while being cared for on board a ship run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international humanitarian organization. The crew of the Geo Barents ship performed two separate rescue operations on Friday saving 258 people. Various United Nations human rights reports have documented widespread and systematic human rights violations and abuses against migrants in Libya. Italian authorities assigned the port of Salerno to the Geo Barents to disembark the refugees and migrants, just a few minutes after the operation. During this mission Geo Barents rescued 38 women, 56 minors, 220 men, mainly Syrian and Egyptian.