National Human Rights Committee of Libya (NHRCL) expressed Monday “its strong condemnation and denunciation” of the outbreak of armed clashes and violence that took place on Sunday evening in al-Zawiyah, between armed groups affiliated with Interior and Defense ministries of the Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Abdul Hamid Dabaiba.
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UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it “is greatly concerned” about reports that civilians were injured and killed during armed clashes in Zawiyah west of Tripoli Sunday night and Monday morning.
Global economic challenges and its repercussions on the Arab countries are the most prominent themes of talks between Saddek Elkaber, Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, and Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh, during their meeting in Amman yesterday.
The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) reported on Monday that 31 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 25 percent of the infection rate. 9 people recovered in the same reporting period.
Four people were killed while 13 others, mostly civilians, were injured as a result of clashes that broke out overnight in the city of Zawiya, in northwestern Libya.
The President of the Libyan Presidential Council (PC), Mohamed al-Menfi, met Saturday with the Chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s 77th session in New York.
The government of Fathi Bashagha, designated by the House of Representatives, has authorized permit for an anti-corruption protest in Benghazi next Friday, September 30.
The Mellitah Oil and Gas Company, a joint venture of Italy’s Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation, has completed maintenance work on two oil wells in the Al Remal and Abu Tifl.
US ambassador and envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, said that the two prime ministers in Libya cannot run the country, referring to Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba and Fathi Bashagha.
A national security board on Friday cleared a Libyan man who has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for 20 years to be transferred to another country if one can be found to take him, continuing the Biden administration’s effort to reduce the detainee population at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.