To help with increase in electricity demand, USAID teamed up with the General Electric Company of Libya (GECOL) to develop an operational plan for stabilizing the national grid and aligned it with the Libyan Emergency Grid Stabilization Program, an international multi-donor initiative led by USAID, according to US Embassy in Libya.
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The Libyan National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced Tuesday the registration of 130 new cases and one death of COVID-19.
SOS MEDITERRANEE, MSF and SEA-WATCH has urgently called for the provision of European state-led search and rescue maritime assets in the central Mediterranean to prevent more deaths among migrants.
Five people were arrested on a Greek island Tuesday and charged with trying to smuggle nearly a hundred migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week, using what appears to be a new direct sea route from crisis-afflicted Lebanon to Italy, Associated Press reported.
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, accompanied by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Council, Abdulla al-Lafi, met Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
UN Secretary-General expressed his sincere gratitude to Stephanie Williams, who has just concluded her assignment as his Special Adviser on Libya, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General.
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.
At least 7 people died and more than 50 injured after a fuel truck exploded today in Bent Bayya, a town in southern Libya located between Sabha and Ubari, according to several reports from health officials.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that more than 1600 illegal migrants have been trafficked between 2020 and 2022, adding that most of them are from Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.
The Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has appealed to the country’s rivals to agree to hold elections “within a firm constitutional framework”.