The size of trade between Tunisia and Libya reached 2.911 billion dinars (866 million euros) at the end of 2022, an increase of 50 percent compared to 2021, according to Italian news agency Nova.
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Libyan outgoing Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh received on Sunday Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi, who conveyed greetings of Tunisian President Qais Saeed and his keenness to promote stability in Libya and its return to its normal role, according to Dbeibeh’s Media Office.
At least 5 African migrants died and another 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said on Saturday.
The Tunisian navy have obstructed an attempted smuggling of medicines by sea allegedly headed for Libya.
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said Monday.
A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a “repressive and inhumane” government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp, AFP reported.
Two ships of the Tunisian Navy intervened on Monday to prevent the seizure of two Tunisian fishing boats by the Libyan Coast Guard accused of fishing in Libyan waters, Italian news agency Nova reports.
The co-chairs of the Security Working Group (SWG) for Libya, represented by the African Union, France, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) held a meeting on Thursday in Tunis to discuss the security situation in the country.
U.N. Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily held talks on Tuesday with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi to discuss “ways to encourage Libyan political and security actors to come together in Libya and agree on a way out of the crisis by holding elections as soon as possible,” according to the U.N. envoy.
The Government of National Unity is in “full readiness” to national elections in Libya, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh told U.N. Special Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily during a meeting in Tunis today.