The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, made a surprise visit to Libya today, where he met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli.
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Special envoys from the US, France, Germany, Italy and the UK are due to meet in Washington on Friday, January 13, to discuss their next steps after Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council of State last week failed to reach a final agreement in Cairo on the constitutional basis for national elections.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have renewed their support for an intra-Libyan solution under the auspices of the United Nations during a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Riyadh.
Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Committee 5+5 will meet on 15 January in Sirte in the presence of the United Nations envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily.
Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh held talks on Tuesday with the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Saddek Elkaber, at the bank’s Tripoli headquarters to discuss government spending for the year 2022, according to a statement by CBL.
The Tripoli Court of Appeal ruled to suspend implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed between Turkey and the Libyan Government of National Unity regarding oil and gas exploration, according to local media.
The head of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, could have a meeting with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, during his ongoing visit to Cairo, Italian news agency Nova reports citing unnamed Egyptian sources.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday that 1,067 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya in the period of 1-7 January 2023.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, confirmed that his government had obtained a budget estimated at only 1.05 billion dinars (about $200 million) to be spent on all the regions of Libya.
The General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, met today in Cairo with Chairman of the Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, according to multiple press reports.