This came based on the recommendation of the Oil Ministry and the approval of the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Resolution No. (976) of 2022 AD, to join IEF, the Ministry said. The Forum includes more than 90% of countries and organizations working in the production, consumption and marketing of oil and gas in the world, according to the Libyan Oil Ministry.
The Media Advisor to the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Fathi al-Marimi, confirmed that HoR had not yet responded to the Presidential Council’s (PC) invitation for a meeting for talks on the constitutional track, due to the travel of Speaker Aqila Saleh abroad. Al-Marimi expected HoR Speaker to accept participation in the meeting called for by the Presidential Council, scheduled for January 11 in Ghadames, Western Libya. The Media Advisor affirmed HoR’s determination to proceed with discussions on the constitutional track with the High Council of State (HCS) through the two concerned committees, pointing out that their work would be referred directly to the High National Elections Commission (HNEC). The Presidential Council had officially invited both HoR and HCS Speakers to a meeting in Ghadames on January 11, while no official comment was issued by both speakers.
Cairo, Jan 1 (AP) Libyan authorities on Sunday said they have found 18 bodies buried in a mass grave in a former stronghold of the Islamic State group along the conflict-stricken North African nation's coast. The Missing Persons Authority said in a statement the bodies were unearthed in the Sabaa area of Sirte, a city in central Libya. Sirte, the birthplace of former longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, fell under the control of Islamic State militants between 2015 and 2016. Hundreds of alleged former Islamic State fighters remain incarcerated in Libyan prisons, many of whom are awaiting trial. In October, officials said they found 42 bodies in a mass grave in a school site in Sirte.
The Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, said that the deterioration of the situation in Libya is a main cause for the instability in the African Sahel region. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, on Friday, Tebboune said the deterioration of the situation in neighboring Libya “has helped the transfer of heavy weapons into the African Sahel region.”Last week, Tebboune stressed the need for “a high national spirit, in order to resolve the Libyan conflict and to set aside differences and personal interests.”In televised statements, Tebboune said, “without a very high patriotic spirit, it is difficult to resolve the Libyan conflict.” He noted that Algeria went through a similar crisis in the 1990’s when it suffered from terrorism, but it “witnessed a prevailing national interest to cross the impasse.”
Osama Hammad, Minister of Planning and Finance in the government appointed by the House of Representatives, said that he will take “escalatory measures” to stop the flow of oil revenues to the National Oil Corporation account “in order to preserve them.”Hammad called on the Attorney General, the head of the Administrative Control Authority, the head of the Audit Bureau, and the head of the Anti-Corruption Authority to investigate the head of the interim unity government, Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, and his associates, “because of his decisions that he issued days before the end of the fiscal year and related to budget funds.”The minister in Fathi Bashagha’s government in Benghazi added that the financing of the Dbeibeh government in Tripoli “contradicts the decisions of the House of Representatives and a blatant assault on public money.”
Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, “a member of the General Assembly of the General Health Insurance Fund,” Ali al-Abed, has stated the need to conduct a comprehensive survey at the national level to create a database through which to work with fixed financial resources to ensure sustainability of the fund’s workflow. This came during his participation in the activities announcing the five-year plan for the General Insurance Fund 2023-2027 in Tripoli, in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister, Acting Minister of Health, Ramadan Abu Janah and a number of officials. The minister also pointed out the importance of tapping into the experiences of developed countries in this regard, stressing the need for health awareness of citizens and the localization of treatment at home, as well as the actual start of health insurance.
A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants has been intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya. It said in a statement that the migrants hail from different nations and that those who illegally entered Libya would be handed over to their home countries. In August last year, Italian military vessels aided a boat crammed with 539 migrants off the southern island of Lampedusa. Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants seeking a better quality of life in Europe. A crowded boat capsized on September 21 off the coast of Tartus, Syria, just over a day after departing Lebanon.
French authorities arrested Friday a French and a Libyan nationals, after the two threatened to blow up a metro station in Paris. French newspaper Le Figaro said a 51-year-old French man and a 29-year-old Libyan were arrested in Gare Montparnasse in Paris on Friday morning. One of them said at the time of his arrest that he wanted to blow everything up, and they repeated the same threat after their arrest, Le Figaro reported. Security services announced that the two were being held by the police on charges of calling for terrorism, stressing that the intelligence services did not recognize them. Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the two were homeless, noting that in addition to alcoholism, the Frenchman may also suffer from mental disorders, according to Le Figaro.
CAIRO (AP) — A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants was intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya, the coast guard said. The coast guard said the boat was stopped Friday off the Mediterranean town of Moura, 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of the eastern city of Benghazi. The coast guard posted images on Facebook showing a large, overcrowded vessel with most of those on board appearing to be young people. In August last year, Italian military vessels aided a boat crammed with 539 migrants off the southern island of Lampedusa. Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants seeking a better quality of life in Europe.
CAIRO (AP) — Coast guard forces in eastern Libya say they have intercepted a vessel carrying at least 700 migrants off the coast of the North African country. The coast guard said the boat was stopped Friday off the Mediterranean town of Moura, 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of the eastern city of Benghazi. It said the migrants are of different nationalities and that those who illegally entered Libya will be handed over to their home countries. By SAMY MAGDY The Associated PressKRDO NewsChannel 13 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation. You can review our Community Guidelines by clicking hereIf you would like to share a story idea, please submit it here.
“In Tawergha, we met the Local Council and discussed persistent challenges faced by the community in access to education, health, water, housing, jobs, and the urgent need for government to increase support for durable solutions for IDPs & people who have returned to Tawergha,” she pointed out. “We met mothers, children, divorced women, elders, unemployed youth, families living in two partially destroyed schools unable to access housing & basic services and saw their suffering. We call on the government to provide needed support to those most vulnerable in Tawergha,” according to the UN Coordinator. “We visited UN projects including a rehabilitated water purification plant and a primary mother and child healthcare center in al-Alaam. The UN is committed to working with the local council & government to support sustainable return and development for all people in Tawergha,” Gagnon said.
He could face life in prison if convicted of “destruction of an aircraft resulting in death” and two other related charges. Dbeibah has faced bitter criticism from political rivals, rights groups and relatives of Libyan detainees who fear being handed over themselves. Dbeibah, after admitting that the handover had taken place, said he had acted “with full respect for Libyan sovereignty”. “Senoussi will not be handed to the United States, he’s in his prison in Tripoli,” Dbeibah told Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya. Libyan analyst Abdallah al-Rayes suspected Dbeibah had done a “political deal” with Washington with an eye to gaining its support to face down eastern rivals.
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SWABI: Four youth, who are being held in Libya by a group, need Rs5.6 million to be paid to their captors for their safe release, the aggrieved families told Dawn here on Friday. Aamir Hayat, Waleed Khan, Bilal Khan and Afzal Junaid, aged between 22 to 25 years, belong to Maneri Bala village. They said they paid about Rs7.2 million to an agent, who assured to take the youth to Europe via Libya. Meanwhile, Famid Khan of Pirtab village told Dawn that he had managed to get his son, Sohaib Khan, freed from his captors. Sohaib told Dawn that there were numerous groups, who had made their own jails, where they kept the people in tiny space, sometimes without food for days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Aydar Aghanin as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the State of Libya, according to the Russia Today TV. Aydar Aghanin worked before as a representative of the Russian Federation in the Palestinian territories, as an advisor to the Russian embassies in Jordan and Slovenia, and as director of the Russia Today Arabic TV. The Russian President's envoy to the Middle East and African countries, Mikhail Bogdanov, had announced earlier that his country intends to resume the work of its embassy in Tripoli in the near future.
