Dendias departed Tripoli without disembarking and flew to Benghazi, Libya’s rival center of power in the east, where he met with Eastern Libyan Commander Khalifa Haftar. “Today’s visit to Libya, as scheduled, started from Tripoli, where I was to meet with President Menfi. As a result, I cut short my visit to Tripoli and departed for Benghazi, where the schedule was followed, as planned,” Dendias told reporters Thursday. The former agreement, condemned internationally, is based on Turkish claims that islands, such as Crete, cannot have a continental shelf. Seeing that Turkey had an outsize influence in Tripoli, Greece appeared at one point to throw in its lot with Haftar, whose military campaign to seize Tripoli ultimately fell far short of that goal.

But Malta’s support for the Italian position, suggests a change in its diplomatic response to problems created by the Italian far right. It also suggests that given a choice between France and Italy, Spain remains closer to its northern neighbour. Meloni flexes her musclesSignificantly, the statement by the four Mediterranean nations is overshadowed by an escalation in tension between France and Italy. Unlike Salvini, Meloni has been careful to frame her migration policy in an appeal to “European solidarity”, thus deviating from the far-right’s xenophobic instincts. In fact, Meloni herself was elected on a platform which included a unlikely naval blockade of Libya to stop departures.

A diplomatic spat erupted between Libya and Greece yesterday after Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias refused to get off his plane at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport. The diplomatic incident led to Libya recalling its ambassador to Greece and summoning the Greek Charge d’Affaires in Tripoli to make a formal protest to Greece. A Libyan Foreign Ministry delegation headed by Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush were waiting to greet Dendias at the airport. The Libyan Foreign Ministry assumed he was returning to Greece. Parliament had already withdrawn confidence in the Aldabaiba Tripoli government.

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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Thursday handed over four girls and a driver from Oyo, to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). The four girls, aged between 18 and 25, were traveling with the driver when they were arrested by immigration personnel in Yauri Local Government Area of Kebbi. The Comptroller of the NIS in the state, Mrs Rabi Bashir-Nuhu, announced this while addressing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi. “The officers became suspicious of them, started asking questions and later discovered that they were travelling to Liberia and Libya enroute to Sokoto. The driver, however, told newsmen that he picked the girls at a petrol filling station along the road in Oyo State, going to Sokoto.

A serious diplomatic incident occurred during the visit of Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias to Libya as the caretaker government Dbeibah attempted to entrap the Greek minister upon his arrival in Tripoli. Initially, a visit to Tripoli was not on the program of Dendias trip to Libya. However, Foreign Ministry sources report that on the eve of his visit to Benghazi, Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohamed al-Menfi, had requested the Greek minister also visit Tripoli for a meeting with him. Then the second phase of the episode unfolded, with Libyan authorities refusing to approve the flight plan of the aircraft carrying Nikos Dendias to Benghazi. During the visit to Benghazi, Dendias will deliver vaccines against the coronavirus, donated by Greece.

TRIPOLI: Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias snubbed his Libyan counterpart on Thursday, abandoning a planned visit to Tripoli to avoid being welcomed by the top diplomat of a government allied with Turkiye. Dendias visit to the nation comes after Libya’s Tripoli-based regime signed a deal with Ankara over exploration for Mediterranean oil and gas that is bitterly contested by Athens. But “in a surprising and insulting move, the Greek minister refused to disembark from his plane and left without any clarifications,” it added. Shortly afterwards, it recalled its ambassador from Athens and summoned his Greek counterpart in Tripoli, government spokesman Mohamad Hamouda told Al-Ahrar, a satellite news channel. But their meeting was “cancelled as the Libyan Foreign Ministry reneged on an agreement” that he would not meet Mangoush, according to a statement by the Greek Foreign Ministry.

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Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, directly accused his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush of trying to “force” a meeting between the two of them upon his arrival at Tripoli airport on Thursday. Dendias arrived at Tripoli airport but refused to disembark from the plane when he realized that waiting to greet him on the tarmac was Mangoush. The Greek Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the incident that Dendias wanted to only meet with the Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, in Tripoli but not with Mangoush. This led the Greek top diplomat to cancel the Tripoli part of his trip to Libya and head for Benghazi in the eastern part of the country. “Today’s visit to Libya, as planned, started from Tripoli, where I was to meet with President Menfi,” Dendias told reporters in Benghazi.

The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) said it had seized counterfeit banknotes (50 dinars) signed by the deputy governor of the CBL, Ali Al-Hibri, who is based in eastern region. The Central Bank said in a statement on Thursday that the seized counterfeit banknotes are different in characteristics to the ones printed in Russia that were also signed by Al-Hibri. The statement added that the CBL notified the Office of the Attorney General regarding the incident. It asked people to be careful about the banknotes and report to the security authorities if they go their hands on the counterfeit banknotes.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias snubbed his Libyan counterpart on Thursday, abandoning a planned visit to Tripoli to avoid being welcomed by the top diplomat of a government allied with arch rival Turkey. Athens blamed the incident on Tripoli, where Dendias had been scheduled to meet the head of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed el-Manfi, without meeting members of the executive, according to the Greek foreign ministry. But "in a surprising and insulting move, the Greek minister refused to disembark from his plane and left without any clarifications," it added. Shortly afterwards, it recalled its ambassador from Athens and summoned his Greek counterpart in Tripoli, government spokesman Mohamad Hamouda told Al-Ahrar, a satellite news channel. As a result I interrupted the visit in Tripoli and we flew to Benghazi, where the schedule was followed," the Greek minister said in the eastern city of Benghazi.

CAIRO - 17 November 2022: Trade Exchange between Egypt, the African Union countries increased by 38.2 percent in 2021 on an annual basis, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). This came on the occasion of African Statistics Day, which falls on November 17 of each year. The CAPMAS stated that total Egyptian exports to the African Union countries amounted to $5.487 billion in 2021, compared to $3.985 billion in 2020, marking an increase of 37.7 percent. The highest values ​​were concentrated in five African countries with a rate of 64.6 percent of the total of this bloc. Regarding Egypt's imports from the African Union, the total imports amounted to $1,994 million in 2021, compared to $1,430 million in 2020, with an increase of 39.4 percent.

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Greece's foreign minister called off the first leg of a visit to Libya on Thursday, refusing to disembark from his plane after landing in the capital of Tripoli, Greek authorities said. The Greek foreign ministry described the fracas — effectively a snub of Libya's western, Tripoli-based administration — as the result of a violation of protocol and agreed-on terms for the visit. Tensions have been rising in the Mediterranean following a controversial preliminary maritime and gas deal between Turkey and the Tripoli administration. During a Cairo visit last month, Dendias said the deal infringes on Greek maritime borders. In 2019, Turkey signed another controversial maritime border deal with Tripoli, granting it access to a contested economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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InsightThe Greek foreign minister has refused to disembark from a plane that had landed at Libya's Tripoli and left without an explanation, cancelling his meetings with Libyan authorities. In this file photo, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias speaks during a joint press conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Rome, Nov. 16, 2022. “The Greek foreign minister’s attitude today is an affront to the people of Libya and the government,” he noted. In the Greek pressThe Greek press reported that Dendias cancelled his visit because Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al Mangoush was there to receive him at the airport. The Greek press also reported that Dendias’ plane went from Tripoli to Benghazi via Malta because Libya allegedly did not approve the flight plan.