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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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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