Libya’s House of Representatives will continue on Monday its talks on the government’s proposed budget and will review the Financial Committee’s report on the matter, said Fathi Al-Marimi, a media advisor to the Speaker of the House.
Peter Millett, the former British ambassador to Libya, is alleged to be working as an advisor for Saddek el-Kaber, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), with a monthly fee of £16,500 ($22,939), a document shows.
The National Central for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on Saturday that 2,854 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Libya, thus causing a spike of increase of recorded cases by 38%. Eight people were recorded to have died and 376 others recovered during the same reporting period, according to NCDC.
Peter Millett, the former British ambassador to Libya, criticized on Saturday the decision of former Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha to hire an American lobbying firm to advocate for him in Washington.
Former Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has hired a U.S. lobbying firm to advocate for him in Washington, in a deal worth nearly a million dollars.
Libya’s Presidential Council could unilaterally decide the constitutional basis for the national elections in December if the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) fails to do so, revealed the council member Moussa al-Koni on Saturday.
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), met on Saturday with the United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, Ján Kubiš, at LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma.
An emergency committee was formed to handle the evacuation of Libyan citizens currently stuck in a Tunisian airport, announced the Libyan Consul in Tunisia Fadel Al-Qario on Saturday.
Libyan activist Mahmud El-Forjani stated that the interim National Unity Government headed by Abdel Hamid Dbeibah has failed miserably in the file of vaccinations against COVID-19 and in providing the vaccine for all Libyans.