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Libyan Oil Minister Mohamed Aoun said on Saturday that the decision to assign Mustafa Sanalla as board chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in 2014 is “legally invalid” because it was not authorized by the ministerial council at that time.

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A military committee of the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by LNA’s Chief of General Staff Abdel Razek Al-Nadori, arrived in the southern city of Ghat on Saturday to inspect the forces positioned there and review their capacity, according to a statement by the LNA’s General Staff.

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The 5+5 Joint Military Committee has agreed on an “emergency plan” for the withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign forces. It also made an official request to the Government of National Unity and the Presidential Council to “freeze military agreements and memorandums of understanding with any country as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement signed in Geneva”.

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42,210 migrants are currently registered in Libya, and only 127 of which were released from detention this year, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) revealed on Friday.

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The western Libya city of Gharyan is witnessing daily increase of COVID-19 cases, beyond its public hospital’s capacity to house more patients, the Gharyan Hospital manager said on Saturday.

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The Libyan Coast Guard, based in Tripoli, intercepted more than 113 migrants off the country’s west coast on Friday.

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More than 455 thousand new people have registered on Friday to vote in the upcoming general elections on December 24, announced the High National Election Commission (HNEC) on Saturday.

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A hundred Nigerians stranded in Libya were evacuated on Friday, with another set of 100 stranded Nigerians to be returned home in the next 10 days, the Nigerian Mission in Tripoli said.

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The Government of National Unity is lifting the 24-hour curfew which it had imposed two weeks ago, while maintaining “precautionary and preventive measures”, the government announced on Saturday.

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Malta will send 40,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Libya and an unspecified number of test kits, which would arrive to Tripoli on a government-chartered flight, the Maltese press reported on Friday.

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