TRIPOLI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah on Thursday stressed the need to increase the pace of work to provide support for the people affected by the recent deadly floods in eastern Libya. Wafaa Al-Kilani, minister of social affairs, confirmed that a set of support and assistance measures will be made in accordance with the prime minister's plan in coordination with the Social Solidarity Fund, the statement said. Musa al-Magaryef, the Education Minister, confirmed that reinforcement of damaged schools in the stricken areas is ongoing according to schedule. On Sept. 10, Mediterranean storm Daniel triggered the largest and worst floods in decades in Libya. Thousands of people were killed and went missing, while the region's infrastructure was severely damaged.

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The Attorney General’s Office reported Tuesday that it initiated a criminal case against a gang formation, whose members deliberately seized government funds from the state’s Food and Drug Control Centre using forged bank instruments. The Anti-Corruption Prosecution, within the scope of the Tripoli Court of Appeal, took over investigation procedures into the seizure of funds from the Food and Drug Control Centre. The investigator inferred that the Assistant Director of the Tadhamon Bank, Girgarish Branch, was implicated with others to falsify the values of the financial sums he was ordered to pay as financial dues to the Food and Drug Control Centre’s employees. By doing this they deliberately added financial values in the tens of thousands then submit the payment order to deduct the financial values with the assistance of the bank branch manager. He issued a decision to arrest and bring in the assistant manager of the bank branch.

Not a month had passed after the disastrous floods in Derna and the cities and villages of eastern Libya before the world’s attention faded away. The gap between the official numbers of victims and those missing in the city of Derna is huge; there may be 10,000 missing persons, and the search and recovery operation is not helping in this respect. The biggest challenge is what is generally being called the “reconstruction” of the affected areas, the first of which is Derna. Hence, it is expected that the Derna rehabilitation file will depend on the political situation, and the suffering will be prolonged if the conflict continues. READ: UN Libya envoy urges unified Derna flood responseThe views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.

U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is escorted as it arrives in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (Kang Duck-chul/Yonhap via AP)By HYUNG-JIN KIMA U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Thursday in a demonstration of strength against North Korea, as the North’s leader reaffirmed his push to bolster ties with Russia. The USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group came to the southeastern South Korean port of Busan after participating in a trilateral South Korean-U.S.-Japanese maritime exercise earlier this week, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. It’s the first arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in South Korea in six months since the USS Nimitz docked at Busan in late March, the statement said. Such concerns flared after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Russia’s Far East last month to meet President Vladimir Putin and inspect key weapons-making facilities.

The signing ceremony 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. On October 10th, the Libyan Foreign Ministry and the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on coordination and cooperation in managing and securing Libyan borders. It 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. Signing Memorandum of Understanding between EUBAM Libya and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation pic.twitter.com/2y5TQxRvCf — EUBAM Libya (@EUBAMLibya) October 10, 2023The partnership also includes support for enhancing cross-border cooperation with Libya's neighboring countries, including in the Sahel, it added. "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.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad said the infiltration was part of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" - the name given by the militant group Hamas for the unprecedented assault from Gaza on southern Israeli communities that began on Saturday, in which at least 900 Israelis are reported to have been killed.

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(See this interactive map to explore current and future flood risk for hydropower dams around the world.) Countries can adapt to increasing flood risk by giving rivers more room to spread out, and avoiding new development in areas at risk of flooding. Beyond climate mitigation and adaptation, the rising flood risk to dams underscores the need to change how we plan future infrastructure. In addition to rising flood risk, hydropower dams also face increasing risk from water scarcity that will result in reduced generation, generally during times of greatest demand for electricity, such as during heat waves that spike demand for air conditioning. The recent disasters in India and Nepal are warnings that climate change will drive considerable increased risk to people and energy infrastructure.

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The Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has skirted around questions on whether there was a “cage” attached to a prison cell at the Corradino Correctional Facility. Nationalist MP Mark Anthony Sammut asked the minister whether there was a cage attached to a Division 5 prison cell aimed at isolating and humiliating unruly inmates. He also asked whether the cage was removed before an inspection by the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee. Camilleri failed to answer the questions put to him, instead stating the CCF’s administration has enacted wide reforms at the prison facility. The inmate would be unable to roam freely in the division like the other prisoners or mingle with them.

The editor of Maltese-language news outlet Illum, Saviour Balzan, and Yendrick Cioffi, a former contributor to the publication, did not libel former prison director Col. Alexander Dalli by reporting the latter as having held a gun in an inmate’s mouth, a court has ruled. Another witness was a former prison guard, who also told the court that Dalli would carry a concealed firearm while inside the facility. Lawyer Andrew Saliba, representing Balzan and Cioffi in the proceedings, had argued that the publication of the story had been in the public interest. The presence of minor inaccuracies in a report does not invalidate the “public interest” defence, ruled the court. Neither did it mean that he was not respected by the inmates or prison officials, said the magistrate.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Saddek El-Kaber, held several meetings at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF 9 to 15 October 2023 in Marrakesh, Morocco. The work programme for the scheduled visit of IMF experts this year and the technical support to the Central Bank of Libya on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, were also discussed. Kenji Okamura, Deputy Executive Director of the IMFIn a busy day of meetings, El-Kaber and his team also met on Tuesday Kenji Okamura, Deputy Executive Director of the IMF. At the meeting they discussed coordinating international support efforts to develop the banking and financial sector, supporting the Central Bank of Libya on combating money laundering and terrorist financing and national risk assessment, and the resumption of the Fund’s Article IV consultation, and briefing about the procedures for unifying the Central Bank of Libya. Islamic Development BankFinally, on Tuesday, the CBL Governor and his team also met Mohamed Suleiman Al-Jasser, Chairman the Islamic Development Bank and his accompanying team.

Buraq Air (UZ, Tripoli Mitiga) took delivery of its first A320-200 on October 6, 2023, after 5A-BAA (msn 5393) was ferried from Istanbul Atatürk to Tripoli Mitiga. The 10.9-year-old aircraft underwent pre-delivery maintenance at East Midlands and was ferried to Türkiye on September 21, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. It was then re-registered in Libya ahead of delivery to Buraq Air. It said, however, that it aims to become Libya's "number one" carrier with the "new" fleet. Buraq currently operates one B737-400 and one B737-800, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office announced today that the Tripoli Criminal Court issued a ruling to imprison two members of the Board of Directors of the Ahlia Cement Joint Stock Company and its CEO, for a period of 18 months. They were imprisoned for obtaining illegal material benefits amounting to LD 1.5 million in exchange for their termination of the contract for the supply of binding materials for cement clinker, concluded with Al-Sahab Company. The Notary Public involved in the case who deliberately forged official documents, was also imprisoned for a period of 3 years, fined LD 75,000 dinars, and deprived of his civil rights for the period of implementation of the sentence. CBL Governor calls on Attorney General to stop continuous drain of inflated and mismanaged overseas state health costs (libyaherald.com)Attorney General evaluates first results of review into Libyan citizen’s civil status, auditing residence records and births, deaths and marriage registration (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders arrest of company’s representative for importing banned GM corn (libyaherald.com)Attorney General takes measures to combat Zawia refinery fuel smuggling through security apparatus (libyaherald.com)Attorney General detains former Libyan diplomat at Egyptian embassy for misappropriating ‘‘millions’’ of pounds (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders the arrest of suspects in Man-Made River pipes crimes (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of Sahara bank Deputy Manager for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders arrest of six Wahda Bank employees for fraud (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of employees at Libyan embassy in Turkey for embezzling through a maintenance contract (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of Financial Controller at Libyan embassy in Morocco (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders arrest of Bank of Commerce and Development employee in Benghazi for LD 12 million fraud (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of Jumhouria Bank staff for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of National Commercial Bank branch manager and staff for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders detention of three Airports Authority staff including the current and former heads (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders pretrial detention of former chairman of Libyana Mobile phone company and 3 board members for contracting infringements (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders pretrial detention of Sahara Bank Manager and employee for LD 2.6 million fraud (libyaherald.com)Attorney General orders pretrial detention of Libya’s head of diplomatic mission in Uganda for misappropriating over US$ 1 million (libyaherald.com)Pretrial arrest ordered for Financial Controller at Libya’s South Africa embassy – head of mission and his predecessor wanted for defrauding tens of thousands (libyaherald.com)Pretrial detention of three former heads of Libyan mission in Ukraine for corruption for ‘‘hundreds of thousands’’ in hard currency (libyaherald.com)Pretrial arrest ordered for the three top managers at Shwerif hospital for LD 3.5 million fraud (libyaherald.com)Tripoli Tax Authority Director put in pretrial detention pending investigation into LD 250,000 public funds fraud (libyaherald.com)Attorney General reviews cases and investigations in lengthy press conference (libyaherald.com)Attorney General to investigates bakery use of banned potassium bromate in bread (libyaherald.com)