UN Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said Friday fighting between armed groups in Tripoli “must stop now, civilians must be protected and perpetrators held accountable.”
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The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) and its companies has achieved a relative increase in oil production, with current production reaching 860,000 barrels per day, while the pre-reopening production rate was 560,000 barrels per day, according to NOC.
Three people were killed and two wounded in armed clashes between two armed groups Tripoli, an official said on Friday.
Libya’s High Council of State will convene on Monday, July 25, to vote on a constitutional draft, the council announced in a brief statement on Wednesday.
Libya’s House of Representatives will take unilaterally decision on naming leaders for the country’s sovereign institutions after failing to come to an agreement with the High Council of State.
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh affirmed that the Parliament did not disrupt the holding of the elections, noting that it did everything necessary for holding the elections.
UN Support Mission in Libyan UNSMIL’s Human Rights and Rule of Law team met with the Abu Salim victims’ association Wednesday “to discuss victim-centered transitional justice measures and national calls for accountability for the 1996 mass killing of more than 1,200 detainees in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli,” according to UNSMIL.
A tanker carrying one million barrels of crude oil to Italy docked Wednesday at the Sidra oil port in Libya, according to the National Oil Corporation (NOC)
On the outskirts of Misurata, just a few kilometers away from the city’s Air College, is where one of the most controversial facilities in Libya currently located. The Italian military hospital continues to stir up questions over the justification for its presence since the facility achieved its declared objective years ago.
The European Union’s Naval Operation IRINI has stopped a ship from transporting vehicles, intended to for military use, to Libya in breach of the UN arms embargo, announced Operation IRINI on Wednesday.