Ship switched off tracking device before sailing towards Libya, court told in El Hiblu hijacking case
The tanker El Hiblu 1, which was allegedly hijacked in 2019, by migrants that it had rescued at sea, had switched off its AIS tracking system and headed towards Tripoli at full speed, a court expert has testified. READ ALSO: El Hiblu 3 | the fightback against a racist narrative that criminalises migrationTaking the witness stand this morning, court expert Joe Degabriele exhibited a report he had prepared in April 2019 regarding the incident. He continued that at "0611 the ship was heading directly to Tripoli port, but then altered its direction gradually, still at full speed." On 28 March the ship changed direction again, heading towards Malta. Asked whether it was concluding its evidence, the prosecution said it was currently waiting for direction from the AG on this front.
Source:Libya Today
September 15, 2022 10:48 UTC
Libya: how Abdel Hamid Dbeibah tries to isolate Fathi Bachagha
The first, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, is leading the international community and trying to isolate the second, Fathi Bachagha. The tension has risen a notch in Libya where, at the end of August, the two rival Prime Ministers, Fathi Bachagha and Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, provoked violence in Tripoli. The French newspaper assures that it is Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibah who is at the origin of this blockage. Abdel Hamid Dbeibah therefore makes life difficult for Fathi Bachagha. By isolating it from the international community, it is in the process of marginalizing it and posing as the sole interlocutor with the international community.
Source:Libya Today
September 15, 2022 09:01 UTC
‘I did NOT have political relations, with that responsibility…’
‘I did NOT have political relations, with that responsibility…’For let’s face it: I am hardly the first to point out a certain resemblance, between the human sexual impulse… and the equally primordial, equally unstoppable, human urge to acquire POWER
Source:Libya Today
September 15, 2022 07:07 UTC
Swiss ambassador confirms his country's support for elections in Libya
Swiss ambassador to Tunisia and Libya, Josef Renggli, has affirmed his country's support for efforts to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in Libya as soon as possible. This came during his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Najla Al-Manqoush, where they discussed activating and developing bilateral relations between the two countries, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Facebook page. Renggli also affirmed Switzerland's support for the democratic process in Libya, peace efforts, and the maintenance of stability and security in the country.
Source:Libya Observer
September 15, 2022 01:40 UTC
Libya Fuel Blast Injures 17
Ambulances in Tripoli, Libya, in this picture taken on Dec. 25, 2018. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images)Libya Fuel Blast Injures 17BENGHAZI, Libya—A fuel tank exploded in a massive blast in the southern Libyan city of Sebha late on Tuesday, injuring 17 people, the health ministry said in a statement. The fire caused by the explosion was brought under control, witnesses said. The blast comes weeks after a fuel tanker blast in another southern Libya city killed several people and injured dozens.
Source:Libya Today
September 15, 2022 00:43 UTC
UN chief: Libya's rivals must keep peace and hold elections
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country’s Caribbean coast was actually discovered and registered by the institute in 2019 and will not be threatened by a nearby tourist train project. Earlier this week, archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment in a cave. They reported it to the institute, which had not publicly spoken of the find until its statement Thursday. The institute says that scientific analysis has still not been carried out on the remains, but that it is 400 yards (meters) from the path of the government’s Maya Train project and not threatened.
Source:Libya Today
September 15, 2022 00:25 UTC
Sabha fuel tank explosion's injuries increase to 17 persons
The Libyan Health Ministry said the number of injuries of the explosion of a Sabha fuel tank reached 17 persons, as the Minister of Health keeps following up on the developments of the incident and treatment efforts. Sabha medical center said Tuesday night it had received 13 persons with burns from the explosion of a fuel tank in the southern city, while the Emergency and Ambulance Apparatuses said it was preparing ambulances to transport some injured persons to Burns and Plastic Surgery Hospital in Tripoli. Ambulances arrived early on Wednesday morning from southern cities to Sabha to support the Emergency and Ambulance Apparatus teams at Sabha medical center. The explosion of a fuel tank took place near Hasawna neighborhood in Sabha. The injured persons were sent to Sabha medical center, Sanha International Hospital and Aseel Al-Ghad Hospital.
Source:Libya Observer
September 15, 2022 00:04 UTC
With the launch of new services and products, National Commercial Bank apologises and promises to improve services
Musbah Akkari, the new chairman of the state National Commercial Bank (NCB), one of the largest banks in Libya, has apologised to customers and promised to improve his bank’s services. ‘‘We apologize to all our valued customers for any shortcomings and pledge to do more to improve services and improve banking services for the better.’’, he said. Akkari was formerly chairman of the largest Libyan bank, the state-owned Jumhuria bank. The NCB charman was announcing a raft of new services and products in reaction to customer demand and criticism. The NCB had been a typical state-owned bank with very poor customer service and little new products.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 23:51 UTC
UN chief: Libya’s rivals must keep peace and hold elections
The country’s current political crisis stems from the failure to hold elections in December 2021 and the refusal of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah who led a transitional government to step down. In response, the country’s east-based parliament appointed a rival prime minister, Fathy Bashagha, who has for months sought to install his government in Tripoli. The Dec. 24 presidential vote was postponed over disputes between the rival factions on laws governing the elections, and controversial presidential hopefuls. At the last Berlin conference in June 2021, where Germany and the United Nations brought together 17 countries, Libya’s transitional leadership headed by Dbeibah underlined its commitment to Dec. 24 elections. Guterres said that unfortunately “it was impossible to reach a full solution” to Libya’s political crisis through the Berlin process, “but it was possible to avoid the worst” and he supports another Berlin conference.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 23:50 UTC
Forged €3,000 travel document lands man in prison
A court has jailed a Libyan man after he admitted to having presented a forged identity document to immigration officials upon his arrival at the Malta International Airport yesterday. His lawyer, Victor Bugeja contested the forgery charges after it emerged that the charges had been issued from a template. The disputed charges were withdrawn during the sitting, after which the accused changed his plea and admitted the remaining charges. On Bugeja’s insistence, the court specified in its judgement that the admission was limited to the use and possession of the document in question and not to having forged it. The court declared the Alhadar guilty on his own admission of the remaining charges and sentenced the man to imprisonment for six months.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 23:42 UTC
11 new people test positive for Coronavirus in Libya
11 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 8 percent of the infection rate, according to a Wednesday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC). The center also said 10 have recovered during the same reporting period. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have exceeded more than 50,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,437 people. Over two million people received one dose of the vaccination, while more than one million others were vaccinated with two doses.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 17:14 UTC
LIBYA : Abdelhamid Dabaiba makes life difficult for Western envoys
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Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 16:39 UTC
HoR calls for an official meeting tomorrow in Benghazi
Ageela Saleh, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), has called for an official meeting of the HoR tomorrow. It will be recalled that the HoR had failed to hold a session in Benghazi on 5 September after it claimed HoR members were prevented from flying out from Tripoli’s Mitiga airport. A fight for control of the Supreme Court? They claim Aldabaiba wanted to prevent the HoR appointing a new head of the Supreme Court. HoR members prevented from flying from Tripoli to today’s Benghazi session (libyaherald.com)The HoR to hold official session on Monday to reappoint new head of the Supreme Court (libyaherald.com)
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 16:09 UTC
German ambassador: Efforts for completing Libya’s constitutional basis is ongoing
German Ambassador to Libya, Michael Ohnmacht, said Wednesday “efforts for completing a constitutional basis for Libya is ongoing,” after his meeting with the First Deputy of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the President of the High Council State (HCS). “During my meetings with the First Deputy HoR-Speaker Al-Nuwairi and with HCS President Al-Mashri, I was pleased to hear that efforts for completing a constitutional basis for Libyaare ongoing – based upon the agreement reached in the Geneva & Cairo meetings,” Ohnmacht tweeted.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 13:09 UTC
Egypt's Foreign Ministry wishes speedy recovery to those injured in fuel tank blast in Libya's Sebha
CAIRO - 14 September 2022: Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid, in a tweet on Wednesday, wished speedy recovery to those injured in a fuel tank blast in Sebha city in Libya on Tuesday. Speaking during the session was also Aly al Halaby, Lebanon’s permanent representative at the AL. He stressed the need for all members to support his country, which is hosting the majority of Syrian refugees – who make up one-sixth of the population in Lebanon. Lebanon has been, despite its limited potentials, acting to secure the needs of those refugees since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, Halaby said. “We have been calling on sisterly and friendly countries to support Lebanon … until the Syrian refugees are back to their country,” Halaby told the session.
Source:Libya Today
September 14, 2022 11:35 UTC