A third batch of anti-COVID-19 vaccines arrived from Italy to Libya this afternoon, bringing the number of doses donated by Italy to the North African country to 501,600, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
France believes that it is “in everyone’s interest that Libyans respect their commitment to hold elections by the end of the year,” an Elysée source told Italian newspaper La Repubblica, adding that the European country made a demand to Turkey to “exert all its influence to reach the goal of the vote”.
Due to a crackdown operation in Tripoli last week, numbers of migrants held in Libyan detention centers have tripled, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Wednesday in a press statement.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh invited Qatar to take part in ‘Libya Stability’ conference, which his government is planning to host in Tripoli on October 21.
915 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 17 percent of the infection rate, according to a Thursday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC). The center also said that 19 people died of the virus, while 1,189 have recovered during the same reporting period.
Human Rights Watch has welcomed the report of the independent fact-finding mission on Libya, which was released three days ago, but called on the United Nations to renew the mission’s mandate in order to further investigate war crime in the country.
Libyan Health Ministry held its second meeting with the Egyptian Health Ministry to discuss the executive procedures to start exchanging experiences, information and consultations between the two countries through the two central emergency rooms, according to the Libyan Health Ministry.
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Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, arrived Wednesday evening in Doha on an official visit to Qatar, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA).
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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), has issued new decrees stipulating appointing a number of undersecretaries at his government’s ministries.
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Libya’s National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) coordinated with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to launch a vaccination campaign for migrants held in a number of detention centers across the country.