Libya’s National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) warned on Saturday against a new wave of COVID-19, calling for re-imposing precautionary measures in public places as the virus remains in the community spread stage.
The US Embassy in Libya stated that Washington has provided over $20 million in COVID-19 funding and delivered 1.4 million vaccines to Libya since the start of the pandemic.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) had net revenue of $21.6 billion in 2021, with $4.3 billion in net revenue during November and December, it said in a statement on Friday.
More than 32,000 people were intercepted and returned to Libya last year, revealed the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in a report released on Friday.
Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has not returned to Libya to resume her duties for nearly a month due to a dispute between her and Ibrahim Dbeibeh, an advisor and cousin to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a Libyan press reports.
American prosecutors and law enforcement officers have announced they are to return an ancient antiquity to Libya after investigators concluded that smugglers had stolen the marble artefact from its country of origin.
A team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has treated 68 people who were injured during a mass arrest two days ago in Libya, when hundreds of migrants asking for protection were taken to a detention center in Ain Zara, MSF operations manager Ellen van der Velden said.
Several members of Libya’s House of Representatives called on the Attorney-General to launch an investigation into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
Libya’s oil production is rising gradually after a blockade of its western fields ended and ports in the east re-opened, according to Oil Minister Mohamed Aoun.