Libyans continue to struggle under crippling blackouts in one of the most oil-rich countries in Africa. During hot summer, the hours of power cuts increase in neighborhoods across Libya. Growl of private electricity generators turning on drowns out most other sounds as they pump out acrid smoke from their diesel engines.
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Oil production in Libya reached over a million barrels per day after the reopening of the wells and export terminals, announced the Tripoli-based government on Thursday.
Osama Al-Juwaili, a military officer based in Tripoli, met on Wednesday with several armed groups loyal to outgoing prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a source told The Libya Update.
Armed groups loyal to Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh have 12 hours to leave Tripoli’s International Airport as per the orders of the Turkish military mission present in the capital, a source close to the leader of the Turkish mission tells The Libya Update.
Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, had a word of warning to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh during a meeting in Tripoli as he alerted that the status quo in Libya is “untenable”.
Spokesman for the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Mohammed Hamouda, is expected in Rome today for a press conference dedicated to the stability of the Mediterranean at the Nassirya Hall of the Senate, according to Italian news agency Nova.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, premier of the Tripoli-based government, paid a visit on Saturday to several individuals who were wounded during the violent clashes that erupted the capital since last Thursday, according to a statement by the government.
Outgoing Libyan Prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has admitted that he had made a deal to re-form the board of directors of the National Oil Corporation in exchange for solving the problem of the suspension of oil exports, in agreement with all the members of the new council who hail from different regions such as Zintan, Misrata, the South, Benghazi and the Oil Crescent region.
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, said the appointment of the new board of directors for the National Oil Corporation (NOC) came in agreement with several political parties, denying that any deal was made to change the former board headed by Mustafa Sanalla.
Today, Mustafa Sanalla, the former chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), arrived back to the oil company’s headquarters in Tripoli, a day after Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh sacked him.