Two people were injured Saturday following a multi-vehicle crash that involved 14 cars, including two trucks on Airport Road in Tripoli. However, the Tripoli Security Directorate said that the Abu Salim Traffic Department is still investigating the cause of the incident. Luckily, only two motorists got hurt, as the Abu Salim Traffic Department said they suffered minor to moderate injuries. Meanwhile, the Traffic Affairs Office urged motorists to be cautious while driving in the rain, especially on highways, and to avoid flooded roads. In late November, two people died in Gharyan after a car they were occupying got stuck in a pool of rain in the city.

Musbah Awhida, a member of Libya’s parliament, has expressed disappointment over the number of seats dedicated for the region of Fezzan in the parliament and the senate under the latest agreement between the House of Representatives and High Council of State. In a statement via Twitter, Awhida said that he was “counting a lot” on the Cairo meeting last week the leaders of the House and the State Council. However, he said he was “surprised” by the number of seats that both chambers agreed to dedicate for the southern region of Fezzan. Last week in Cairo, Speaker of the House Aguila Saleh and Chairman of the State Council Khaled Al-Mishri achieved a breakthrough in negotiations concerning the establishment of constitutional framework for presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya. Both leaders are expected to send the agreement to their respective chambers for vote.

Minister of Oil and Gas of the Government of National Unity, Mohamed Aoun, discussed Friday, in Washington with Josh Corless, Vice President of International Governmental Affairs at ConocoPhillips, continuing investing in Libya. They also discussed accelerating implementation of projects that will have an impact on oil and gas production increase, such as North Jalu Project and Plot NC 98. The two parties emphasized the need to continue contacts and consultations to overcome the challenges facing ConocoPhillips in order to carry out its obligations in Libya. It is to be noted that the Government of National Unity agreed, November last year, to sell the share of the American company ‘Hess’ in the Waha (Oasis) wells concession amounting to 8.16%, equally between the French Total and the American ConocoPhillips.

The Libyan Vice Prime Minister and Health Minister-designate Ramadan Abu Janah met Friday with the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Libya Elizabeth Hoff and her accompanying team. According to the media office of the Minister, the meeting saw a discussion of a number of files, especially, the follow-up on the implementation of the agreement signed between the National Oil Corporation and WHO, under the supervision of the Ministry of Health, through which medicines will be provided for pediatric oncology patients, 720 children, after the arrival of 70 % of the medicines to Libya, while the rest of the shipments are expected to arrive next February. The meeting also saw a discussion of strengthening joint cooperation to treat 106 patients that require bone marrow transplantation, and allocating sums of money for their treatment in Italy and Greece. WHO representative expressed a desire to unite efforts with the Ministry of Health to develop a mechanism for treating muscular dystrophy patients, as WHO will start forming a specialized technical team to deal with patients and develop a mechanism for treating them.

French NGO Supernovae and the Turkish-based Bina Libya signed an MoU last Thursday for the Start-Up Project to support Gharian University Incubator. The signing took place in the presence of the Director of the Gharian University Business Center, Dr. Abdulaziz Boudhina. The Libya Startup project is a project that supports the Libyan entrepreneurial environment through training and guidance, in addition to strengthening the capabilities of entrepreneurs in Libya. The Libya Startup project is a project funded by the European Union in Libya and implemented by Supernovae in partnership with Spark. For her part, Ghada Arhouma, Director of the Bina Libya Programme, confirmed that the aim of this agreement is to support the business incubator of Gharian University.

Libya faces the same old problems in new yearHafed Al-GhwellShort Url https://arab.news/bj65rA new year is upon us but for the people of Libya, and the meddlesome congress of external actors desperately seeking dividends from years-long interference in Libyan affairs, we might as well be back in 2013. This left Libya more divided than ever, malign actors emboldened, and the international community embarrassed. Now, Libya ranks 131st out of 137 countries, with weak governance and competing extraterritorial ambitions only serving to strengthen men at arms at the expense of laying the foundations for Libya’s political transformation. For all the accolades lavished on the 5+5 Joint Military Commission, Libya remains overwhelmed by tens of thousands of foreign fighters and mercenaries. Hafed Al-GhwellAdditionally, rather than working tirelessly to safeguard Libya’s political future in the window of opportunity provided by a mostly intact ceasefire, suspiciously well-timed “logistical challenges” scuttled opportunities for dialogue and avenues of cooperation.

“Sticks don’t work in this town,” said Representative Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, a McCarthy ally. They certainly don’t work for Republicans. Mr. Gaetz said on Tuesday that lawmakers should not give the post to somebody willing to sell “shares of himself to get” it. Carrots may have succeeded in winning Mr. McCarthy the speaker’s gavel. “He will have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straitjacket constructed by the rules that we’re working on now,” Mr. Gaetz said.

v + T – normal sizeAfter a breakthrough in the Libyan crisis, following consensus between the parties to the Libyan conflict, during a meeting in Cairo that brought together the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, Aguila Saleh, and the President of the High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri. He called on the international community to quickly announce the date for organizing the parliamentary and presidential elections. According to the League’s statement, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, welcomed the joint statement issued by them regarding the constitutional document that they announced in Cairo last Thursday, and aims to end the political crisis that the country is suffering from. “We share all Libyans’ desire to see Libyan leaders adopt the necessary measures as soon as possible to allow the High National Elections Commission to begin activating the electoral process,” Norland said in a tweet posted on the US Embassy’s account in Libya. The armed group threatened the residents of the area to storm the houses by force, in the event of non-payment of royalties, but the residents responded by shooting at them, which resulted in the death of one of the members of the armed group.

Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Health Minister of the Libyan outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), Ramadan Abu Janah, has met with Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy to Libya, Leslie Ordman. The meeting discussed the latest political developments in Libya and the possibility of pushing and intensifying efforts towards holding parliamentary and presidential elections as soon as possible to achieve stability in the country, according to a statement on Abu Janah’s official Facebook page. In the presence of a delegation from the Southern Region, the attendees also discussed the problems and difficulties that the Region face in general, especially the issue of borders and irregular migration.

The Libyan Parliament Member, Abdulsalam Nassiya, said the Cairo agreement between the Parliament Speaker, Aguila Saleh, and the High Council of State Head, Khaled al-Mishri, formed “guidelines that need specific mechanisms of action.”In a statement, Nassiya welcomed any steps towards holding elections and a way out of the political, economic and social crisis. The MP stated that presenting the draft constitutional rule to the two houses without agreeing on the mechanism of consensus on the different opinions resulting from the discussion of the two houses may lead to delay or stumbling in its issuance. He explained that the road map also needs mechanisms to discuss and agree on it, especially since the statement identified its general paths in electoral laws, the executive authority and sovereign positions, which are important and sensitive paths. Nassiya continued that it is noticeable that the UN mission was not a party to this meeting or agreement, which may make matters difficult, and confirms the continued regional and international incompatibility on Libya. Nassiya expressed his hope that what has been reached will be built on by setting clear and transparent implementation mechanisms and addressing regional and international consensus on it as quickly as possible.

An Eritrean national described as the “world’s most wanted″ human trafficker has been arrested in Sudan after an international search led by the United Arab Emirates, Interpol has announced. Habtemariam was arrested on Sunday in a ″major international police operation led by the United Arab Emirates, based on information shared via Interpol,″ said a statement from the UAE’s Ministry of Interior. He was “wanted for leading a criminal organization which over several years, kidnapped, mistreated and extorted East African migrants to smuggle them into Europe,” according to the UAE. Lt-Gen Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Interior, called the “global police operation led by the UAE” a “success”. Habtemariam had been the subject of two Interpol red notices, one from Ethiopia and the other from the Netherlands, the agency said.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, welcomed the joint statement issued by the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the head of the High Council of State (HCS), regarding the constitutional document, under Egyptian auspices, following their discussions in Cairo on Thursday. Aboul Gheit praised the Egyptian efforts for sponsoring the meetings concerned with the constitutional process, expressing his hope that this political development will be accompanied by practical and serious steps leading to the announcement of a clear and specific national road map to complete all necessary procedures to reach the elections. He also appealed to all Libyan actors to support the current state of consensus in order to secure comprehensive national elections as soon as possible, stressing the Arab League’s continued support for all endeavors aimed at ending the transitional stages in Libya.

January 6, 2023The international police organization Interpol announced this week that a major smuggler has been arrested. Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam was arrested in Sudan in connection with the kidnapping, extortion and murder of east African migrants. Habtemariam, from Eritrea, allegedly smuggled and trafficked thousands of victims, according to a press release from Interpol. Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam was arrested in Sudan following an international manhunt. Would-be migrants have long faced danger in Libya.

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Extended reality (XR) entertainment firm holoride announced a retrofit device for installing its virtual reality (VR) system in any vehicle at the CES 2022 in Las Vegas this week. holoride’s will deploy its award-winning gaming platform across the automotive industry to power the ‘Motorverse,’ according to a company executive. ARVORE Chief Executive Ricardo Justus said his company loved to challenge its gaming creations with new VR technologies. holoride’s immersive platform offers an unprecedented medium for developing video games, building a novel ecosystem for serious gaming technologies. German automotive firm BMW has also piloted similar technologies on its M Mixed Reality platform.