Head of Government of National Unity of State of Libya leaves Doha
QNADoha, Qatar: The Head of the Government of National Unity of the sisterly State of Libya HE Abdul Hamid Mohammed Al Dbeiba left Doha on Sunday evening after a working visit to the country. His Excellency and the accompanying delegation were seen-off upon departure from the Doha International Airport by the Minister of Sports and Youth HE Salah bin Ghanim Al Ali, the Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Libya HE Khaled Mohammed bin Zabin Al Dosari, and the Ambassador of the State of Libya to Qatar HE Mohammed Mustafa Al Saghir Al Lafi.
Source:Libya Today
September 11, 2023 04:53 UTC
Qatari Amir, Libyan Official Discuss Bilateral Ties
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Source:Libya Today
September 11, 2023 03:54 UTC
Amir Meets Head Of Libyan Government
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Source:Libya Today
September 11, 2023 03:39 UTC
Ship rescues 68 migrants off Libya
MARSEILLE: The Ocean Viking, a rescue ship chartered by SOS Mediterranee, rescued 68 stranded migrants in international waters off Libya on Sunday, the France-based humanitarian NGO announced. “The Ocean Viking rescued 68 shipwrecked people from a double-decker wooden boat that left Zouara in Libya last night,” the NGO said. Images published by the NGO on X, formerly Twitter, show several dozen migrants crammed into a makeshift boat wearing orange life jackets. At the end of August, the Ocean Viking rescued 440 migrants in distress in international waters off Libya and Tunisia before heading for Genoa, northern Italy, the remote safe port assigned to it by the Italian authorities to disembark the survivors. The central Mediterranean is the most dangerous migratory route in the world, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Source:Libya Today
September 11, 2023 02:05 UTC
Emma Stone's 'Poor Things' wins Golden Lion prize at 80th Venice Film Festival
Nicole WinfieldThe Associated PressROME − "Poor Things," a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is often a predictor of Oscar glory. "Io Capitano (Me Captain)," by Matteo Garrone, won the award for best director while Garrone's young star, Seydou Sarr, won the award for best young actor. Woody Allen:The filmmaker attends Venice Film Festival with wife Soon-Yi Previn amid controversial receptionAgnieszka Holland's "Green Border," about Europe's other migration crisis on the Polish-Belarus border, won the Special Jury Prize. Peter Sarsgaard won best actor for "Memory," in which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a film about high schoolers reuniting.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 23:33 UTC
UNICEF, Libya complete phase II of remedial classes program for 20,000 students
TRIPOLI, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday announced the completion of the second phase of a remedial classes program for about 20,000 Libyan students in 41 municipalities. "UNICEF Libya, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, celebrated the end of the remedial classes program -- phase II," UNICEF said in a statement. "The objective of the program that continued over a period of six weeks is to equip children aged 7 to 12 with skills in math, Arabic, and English," the statement added. The yearslong armed conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a heavy toll on Libya's education system, resulting in students falling behind, teachers stretched thin, and stagnant curricula limited to academic subjects and rote learning. In July 2022, UNICEF partnered with the Libyan Ministry of Education and offered interactive remedial summer school courses to more than 20,000 students who have fallen behind and are at risk of dropping out.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 22:23 UTC
Libya's daily oil production reaches 1.207 mln barrels
TRIPOLI, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Sunday said the country's oil production has reached 1.207 million barrels per day. The NOC published the number in a statement on its official Facebook page, adding that the country's daily condensate production stands at 52,000 barrels. The NOC on Friday said the North African country produced more than 36.5 million barrels of crude oil, 199,438 tons of condensates, and about 1.07 billion cubic meters of natural gas in August. Oil and gas play a crucial role in Libya's economy, as the country possesses the largest proven oil reserves in Africa. However, the sector has faced challenges in recent years due to armed conflicts and disruptions in oil field and port operations.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 21:12 UTC
Drone attack in Sudan's capital Khartoum, 40 killed; More than 36 people were injured
InternationalDrone Attack In Sudan: A drone attack was carried out in a market in the capital Khartoum on Sunday amid conflict between the army and paramilitary force RSAF in Sudan. A drone attack was carried out in a market in the capital Khartoum on Sunday amid conflict between the army and the paramilitary force RSAF in Sudan. However, it is not yet clear which party is behind Sunday's drone attack. The civil war has forced large numbers of people to be displaced. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the situation in Sudan has worsened due to the civil war that started in April.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 17:46 UTC
Italian medical team specialized in paediatric heart defect operations arrives – starts operations at Tajoura Heart Hospital
The Media and Awareness Office of the Department of Support and Development of Medical Services (DSDMS) confirmed, in an exclusive interview with the Libya Herald, the arrival of the visiting Italian medical team specialising in paediatric heart defects to the Heart Hospital in Tajoura. Use of visiting doctors for locally untreatable conditionsThe DSDMS’s Media and Awareness Office said that it seeks to localise this type of treatment and operations in several major hospitals in Libya. This plan aims to treat patients, especially those with heart and arterial diseases, and some other diseases, for which there is no treatment inside Libya. During the meeting, the DSDMS had reported, it was agreed to start implementing the localisation of treatment programme in the specialty of paediatric heart surgery, starting from September, in several public health centres across Libya. Italy agrees long term programme of implementing children’s heart surgery across Libya (libyaherald.com)
Source:Libya Herald
September 10, 2023 17:29 UTC
Dbeibeh in Doha for talks with Qatari Emir Al-Thani
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met today in Doha with Qatar Emir Tamim Al-Thani to discuss bilateral cooperation and regional issues of common interest, as announced by Dbeibeh’s media office. During their meeting at the Lusail Palace, the two discussed joint cooperation in “electricity, solar energy, infrastructure, transportation, and sports,” according to the statement release by Dbeibeh’s media office. Both sides also stressed “the need to support efforts to end the fighting in Sudan and preserve its unity and stability.”
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 15:27 UTC
Four major Libyan oil ports temporarily closed due to expected hurricane – sources
Ethiopia says completes filling of Nile Renaissance mega-damNAIROBI: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced Sunday that Ethiopia has completed the filling of its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile, a source of regional tensions with downstream Egypt and Sudan. “It is with great pleasure that I announce the successful completion of the fourth and final filling of the Renaissance Dam,” Abiy said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, which comes as negotiation between the three countries resumed August 27. “There was a lot of challenge, we were many times dragged to go backwards. We’ve reached (this stage) by coping together with God,” he said. “I believe that we will finish what we have planned next,” he said.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 13:00 UTC
Amir meets Head of Libya's Government of National Unity
QNADoha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met in his office at Lusail Palace on Sunday with Head of the Government of National Unity of the sisterly State of Libya HE Abdul Hamid Mohammed Al Dbeiba and the accompanying delegation, on the occasion of his visit to the country. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and aspects of developing and strengthening them. They discussed the latest developments in Libya, where HH the Amir was briefed by Head of the Government of National Unity on the most prominent developments in Libya. In this context, HE the Head of the Government of National Unity expressed his thanks and appreciation to HH the Amir for the State of Qatar's continued and permanent support for the State of Libya and its people. For his part, HH the Amir affirmed the State of Qatar's firm position towards supporting Libya's unity and stability and achieving the aspirations of its people for stability and development.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 11:55 UTC
Libya closes four oil ports as NOC declares state of alert before hurricane
Libya has shut four oil ports as a precautionary measure while state-owned National Oil Corp. declared a state of maximum alert on Sept. 10, before a possible hurricane headed for the country. All companies affiliated with NOC must reduce movement outside oil sites, restrict movement and stop flights between fields, the NOC said on X, the platform formerly called Twitter. Ports and shipment movements should also be monitored, and steps taken if necessary to protect industrial units, production lines, storage units and facilities from floods, NOC said. A storm with subtropical features in July/September in the Mediterranean is considered rare, and could bring heavy rain, strong winds and turbulent waves. The NOC had only a day earlier report that Libyan crude oil production had reached 1.208 million b/d with condensate output at 48,000 b/d.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 11:20 UTC
Nine arrested including eight expats in fuel smuggling operation
Authorities in Libya have arrested nine people, including a local, for their alleged involvement in fuel smuggling activities via the maritime route, the Public Prosecution Office announced on Saturday. The investigation included the suspects and the transportation methods, which judicial officers successfully detected. The law enforcement officials searched the ship before arresting the owner of the vessel, the crew, and the supplier of the smuggled material. During interrogation the suspects confessed to transporting one hundred thousand litres of diesel fuel to a ship anchored off the coast of Zuwara, confirming that they had repeated this act more than once. The Public Prosecutor’s Office said that those involved in the incident were caught red-handed, while investigations are ongoing to apprehend the remaining suspects.
Source:Libya Observer
September 10, 2023 10:52 UTC
Diamonds, girlfriends, illicit lobbying: The fall of a former ambassador
Records show that Olson led a complicated love life that could have left him vulnerable to blackmail. AdvertisementBut emails submitted to the court indicate that the ambassador and the journalist still had feelings for each other. Jennifer McKewan, a State Department spokesperson, declined to comment on Olson’s case. While Olson was ambassador to Pakistan, he was also fending off a State Department investigation about a different matter. Olson’s then-wife, Deborah Jones, was based in Washington at the time as a senior State Department official, overseeing the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs.
Source:Libya Today
September 10, 2023 09:44 UTC