The Libyan border guards in charge of securing the Libyan-Tunisian borders have managed to find 14 migrants who were lost in the desert near the Tunisian border, reports the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Government of Unity (GUN). The ministry elaborated that the migrants are of various sub-Saharan nationalities. It also confirmed that they had been provided with medical care and were transferred and held at the Al-Assa border crossing before handing them over to the relevant authorities.
The summary for the appointment of Managing Director Pakistan China Investment Company Limited is awaiting approval of the federal cabinet. Sources said that the Finance Ministry had proposed the name of senior commercial banker Hasan Raza for the position of MD Pak China Investment Company Limited. The Cabinet Division circulated the summary of Hasan Raza’s appointment as MD Pak China to Cabinet members, but reportedly, it is still in the process. On the other hand, the government has approved the appointments of Saad Ur Rehman as MD Pak Kuwait, Tariq Mehmood as MD Pak Libya, Aamir Shamim as MD Pak Brunei, and Nauman Ansari as MD Pak Oman. According to the Finance Division, these Joint Investment companies play an important role in the economic uplift of the country through infrastructure investment, asset management, project financing, and investment banking.
Libya’s foreign exchange reserves have reached a total of $82 billion at the end of 2022 and the volume of frozen assets has stood at $70 billion since 2011, revealed Dmitry Gershenson, the head of the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Libya. Speaking during an interview with the broadcaster CNBC Arabia on Wednesday, Gershenson expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) aimed at maintaining financial and monetary stability despite the “turbulence” that the country has experienced and for having provided support to the Libyan economy in countering the financial shocks.
Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held a security meeting on Wednesday to follow the progress of the military operation “to counter criminal gangs, drug and arms trafficking […] and fuel smuggling ” in the coastal regions of northwestern Libya, according to a statement by Dbeibeh’s media office. Among others, the meeting was also attended by the Chief of Staff, General Mohamed al Haddadi. Dbeibeh praised “the professionalism and respect for the rules by the Air Force, which carried out the tasks assigned to it in coordination with the other bodies of the Armed Forces and intelligence agencies”, reads the statement released by the government.
EventThe security situation will likely remain unstable nationwide through at least late June, primarily due to intermittent fighting and armed clashes between various rival militia groups across the country. Clashes between heavily armed rival militias occasionally occur, even in the capital, and could result in casualties and property damage. The inability of rival political factions to reconcile has compounded the volatile security situation. Armed groups often disrupt planned power outages by attacking power distribution stations and forcing staff to change the scheduled power loading cycle between districts. If possible, limit exposure to official buildings that may be targeted by armed groups, such as security checkpoints and local government offices.
CAIRO – 1 June 2023: Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Thursday a phone call from Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon as they discussed the framework of bilateral cooperation, particularly in the economic sector. The Slovenian minister was eager for learning about her Egyptian counterpart's assessment of the current major developments on the Arab and African scales, particularly in Sudan, Libya, and Palestine, the press statement indicated. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs marked on May 2, 2022 - in a press statement - 30 years of diplomatic relations with Slovenia. "Such fruitful cooperation has led to many achievements on the political and economic levels," the Foreign Ministry said in the statement. Egypt is keen on continuing cooperation with Slovenia on issues of mutual concern, the ministry noted.
AdvertisementAlong with the 23 members who were sentenced to death, the appeals court in the western city of Misrata also sentenced 14 other ISIS members to life in prison, as well as one for 12 years in prison, six to 10 years, one to five, and six to three years. Five people were acquitted by the court, and three others had died before their case had made it to the court. In 2015, the Libyan group had attacked the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. The deaths of the abducted Christians were featured in brutal propaganda films made by the ISIS. The group seized the coastal city of Sirte after gaining territory in Benghazi, Derna, and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya.
The Interior Ministry and the Libyan National Army (LNA) launched on Wednesday a security campaign against human traffickers and drug dealers in Amsaad east of Tobruk. This comes within the framework of stability and law enforcement within the border area with Egypt. A joint force from the armed and interior forces headed to Amsaad border area to impose security and stability following the recent events. Several media sources reported that a 13-year-old child was killed in Amsaad as a result of clashes between border guards and smugglers. The Tokra Security Directorate also announced the preparation of 20 security patrols staffed by 80 police officers from among the elites within the public force in the Tokra Security Directorate, to go quickly to provide support to the Tobruk and Amsaad Security Directorates.
The commander of the Libyan western military region, Major General Osama Al-Juwaili, commented on the drone strikes on sites that the Government of National Unity said belonged to human traffickers and fuel smugglers. Al-Juwaili said in press statements that “the use of drones may complicate the political situation, because all parties will seek to possess weapons and there will be an arms race, and Libya does not need more weapons and chaos.”Al-Juwaili considered that the pretext of fighting crime using drones is a settling of political scores, using the state’s power and capabilities.
The Undersecretary of the Libyan Interior Ministry, Faraj Qaim, and the Chief of Staff of the Border Guard, Major General Moftah Shaqlouf, held an extensive meeting with the security leaders in Amsaad, in the awake of the security events that took place in the Libyan-Egyptian border area in Amsaad on Tuesday night between the border guards and smugglers. A joint force from the armed and interior forces headed to Amsaad border area to impose security and stability following the recent events. Several media sources reported that a 13-year-old child was killed in Amsaad as a result of clashes between border guards and smugglers. The General Administration of Central Support announced the arrival of a force from the administration to the border town of Amsaad to carry out the tasks assigned to it in terms of maintaining security, stability and law enforcement in the town. The Tokra Security Directorate also announced the preparation of 20 security patrols staffed by 80 police officers from among the elites within the public force in the Tokra Security Directorate, to go quickly to provide support to the Tobruk and Amsaad Security Directorates.
The firm sells ballistic identification technology to police forces all over the world to help solve gun crimes. “We welcome the approval of the remediation agreement related to a historical contract in the Philippines," Ultra CEO Alvaro Venegas said in an email. The cases against the individual executives continue, while the charges against the company are stayed and will be withdrawn if it complies with the remediation agreement. It says the Superior Court of Quebec "anticipates that approving this agreement will encourage corporations to voluntarily disclose wrongdoing." A separate deal between Quebec prosecutors and SNC-Lavalin in 2022 saw the firm agree to pay $29.6 million over three years to settle criminal bribery charges stemming from bridge work in Montreal.
TRIPOLI: Libya´s Tripoli-based government vowed on Tuesday to keep fighting smuggling networks and people traffickers after a series of drone strikes sparked claims of political score-settling. “The security operation will continue until the achievement of its objectives,” the Tripoli government said in a statement. “Seven migrant smuggling boats, six drug trafficking depots... and nine tanker trucks used for fuel smuggling” had been destroyed, it said, adding that the operation would now enter a “new phase”. Armed groups have exploited the turmoil to fund their activities through fuel smuggling and the illegal trafficking of migrants. On Monday, the eastern-based parliament denounced the Tripoli government´s operation as the “settlement of political scores rather than a fight against traffickers”.
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MISRATA, LibyaA Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in the deadly Islamic State (ISIS) attacks that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. Islamic State’s Libyan branch was one of the extremist group’s bloodiest outside its original territory in Iraq and Syria, taking advantage of the chaos and warfare that followed a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. “My son is missing and my relative, my brother-in-law, was murdered in Sirte Square,” he said. Speaking in court on Monday, Fawzia Arhuma said she welcomed the death sentences after her son was killed by the group at a power station near Sirte. “Today my son raised my head.
MISRATA: A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly campaign for the militant Islamic State group that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. IS’s Libyan branch was one of the militant group’s strongest outside its original territory in Iraq and Syria, taking advantage of the chaos and warfare that followed a 2011 Nato-backed uprising. In 2015 it launched an attack on the luxury Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing nine people, before abducting and beheading dozens of Egyptian Christians whose deaths it featured in grisly propaganda films. After gaining territory in Benghazi, Derna and Ajdabiya in eastern Libya, the group seized the central coastal city of Sirte, holding it until late 2016 as it enforced a harsh regime of public morality backed up by brutal punishments. Mustafa Salem Trabulsi, head of an organisation for families of people killed or disappeared by the group said he had hoped that all the suspects would face the death penalty but he accepted the outcome.
