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Mohammed al-Menfi, chairman of the Presidential Council, arrived in Tobruk on Saturday where he will meet with municipal officials and civil society representatives to discuss national reconciliation, according to a brief statement by the Council.

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The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) denied on Saturday allegations that claim that it allowed the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to discuss proposals which aim to obstruct the general elections in December. Instead, the U.N. Mission accused the LPDF members of making such proposals for the sake of their own “partisan and particular interest”.

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Libya’s House of Representatives has an “alternative plan” if the country fails to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on December 24, House Speaker Aguila Saleh told the press on Saturday.

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Al-Magarha tribe in southern Libya said in a statement If its son Abdulla Al-Senussi, intelligence chief of late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddaf, is not released from Mitiga prison in Tripoli within 72 hours, the tribe would have to block the Man-Made River water.
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Member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdel Moneim al-Orefi, said HoR upcoming session will be crucial for the budget and sovereign positions.
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Members of the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) have arrived at the Commission’s permanent headquarters in Sirte to start the first session of its seventh meeting.
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Libyan Health Minister Ali Al-Zanati has called on Libyans to get vaccinated as soon as possible to move the country past the current critical health phase.

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Around 156 migrants, including one pregnant woman, were intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard before they were brought back to Libya, where they disembarked at Zawiya airport, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.

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The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) is facing an internal conflict between those who support the December elections, and those opposite it because “they benefit from the status-quo”, LPDF member Belqassem Al-Nimr told reporters on Thursday.

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Libya’s eastern region currently relies only on three faulty power stations, which makes the state of electricity in this region worse than the western region, according to a press report.

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