Khaled Al-Mishri, chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, criticized the parliament’s decision on Tuesday to to replace Fathi Bashagha as prime minister, slamming the move as a “political absurdity” in a statement via Twitter.
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The National Oil Corporation’s budget committee convened a meeting on Tuesday to review development plans for the Ras Lanuf and Mellitah complexes, according to a statement by the NOC.
The 6+6 committee, formed jointly by Libya’s House of Representative and High Council for the preparation of electoral laws, will meet in Morocco within a week to continue talks on drafting legislations governing the national elections planned at the end of this year, according to a report by Italian news agency Nova.
A delegation from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, yesterday to discuss arrangements for the reopening of Riyadh’s embassy, which has been closed since 2014.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 89 migrants have been intercepted and returned to Libya during the past week.
Mellitah Oil & Gas , an operating company jointly owned by the Italian Eni and the Libyan National Oil Corporation, has drilled the B4-49 well, in the Bouri offshore field, 120 kilometers north of the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, with the aim to produce oil and gas with a production capacity of 1,800 barrels of oil per day.
Interpol has axed a red notice for a senior Libyan official who is embroiled in a $72 million debt row with a Belgian prince, The Times reported on Monday.
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush arrived in Oman on Sunday evening for a two-day visit, according to a statement by the Omani foreign ministry.
Deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Abdullah al Lafi, met with the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Armed Forces headed by the Government of National Unity of Tripoli (GUN), General Mohamad al Haddad, to follow up the implementation of the anti-crime aimed at putting an end to the presence of illegal armed groups in the coastal city of Zawiya, in the north-west of the country.
Libyan security forces said Sunday they had deployed in Zawiya after battles between armed groups in the western city left three people dead including two civilians, according to medics.