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Libya’s Oil Minister Mohamed Aoun has launched an investigation against Mustafa Sanalla, the chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), over the latter’s refusal to hand over corporation leadership to Jadallah Al-Awkali, who was appointed by the oil ministry as the new NOC chairman last week.

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Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi will take part on a ministerial meeting between Libya’s neighboring countries, which is scheduled to take place tomorrow in Algeria, the Tunisian foreign ministry announced on Sunday.

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, and King Abdullah II of Jordan held joint discussions on enhancing bilateral relations between the two countries during a Sunday meeting in Amman.

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The United States has proposed dividing the Libyan presidential elections into two rounds, according to which, the first round of  presidential elections would take place on 24 December, along with parliamentary elections, and then a second and final round on 15 September 2022, according to The Africa Report.

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The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) has reported on Sunday that 2,003 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 27 percent of the infection rate. The NCDC said that 19 others died of the virus, while 910 have recovered during the same reporting period.

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Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, discussed the latest developments in the country with the Libyan National Army’s representatives of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee during a meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma on Saturday, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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Italy and Russia share the “urgent need” to continue supporting the internal Libyan negotiations, because joint cooperation between the two countries on Libya is “pivotal”, the Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters on Friday during a press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Rome.

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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), discussed with Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, the latest developments in the country during a Saturday meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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