Libya News and Interests

Libya PM unaware of Russia, Turkey deal on foreign fighters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/libya-pm-unaware-russia-turkey-205934910.html

Libya's unity government Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said on Friday he was unaware of any understanding between Russia and Turkey on a withdrawal of their foreign fighters, but that such a move would be welcomed.

Speaking to Reuters in New York, Dbeibah also said he was committed to holding elections on Dec. 24, but warned that some lawmakers may be reluctant to give up power. Dbeibah, a businessman appointed interim prime minister in February, said he has not yet decided whether to run for office.

Libya has had little stability since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, then head of state. A U.N.-led peace process brought a ceasefire last summer, after fighting between rival factions paused, and then a unity government.

Following a U.N.-backed conference in Berlin last month, German and U.S. officials said Turkey and Russia, which back opposing sides in Libya, reached an initial understanding https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...ember-ensure-lasting-peace-blinken-2021-06-23 on a step-by-step withdrawal of their foreign fighters.

"I have not heard of this agreement regarding the withdrawal of fighters. But we welcome any agreement ... and we welcome the exit of any forces, fighters or mercenaries with any support from any party," Dbeibah said. "We are talking with all parties regarding the withdrawal of foreign forces from Libya."

U.N. sanctions monitors have reported that thousands of Syrians had been fighting in Libya either alongside unity government troops - who were also advised by Turkish troops - or with Russia's Wagner group in support of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA).

Under the ceasefire reached last October, all foreign fighters were supposed to have left Libya by January.

Russia's deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told the Security Council on Thursday that Moscow supported a "step-by-step phased withdrawal of all foreign forces and contingents."

"At the same time, we need to make sure that the current balance of forces on the ground not be disrupted, because it is thanks to this balance that the situation in Libya remains calm and no threats of armed escalation emerge," Polyanskiy added.

Addressing the Security Council, Dbeibah said the continued presence of foreign fighters poses "a real and serious risk to the current political process and it also threatens the efforts to continue the ceasefire" and to uniting the army in Libya.

Dbeibah told Reuters it would be "very difficult" to unify Libya's military. U.N. special envoy for Libya, Jan Kubis, said on Thursday that the LNA has not allowed Dbeibah's unity government to take control of the area it commands.

"Of course, communicating with Haftar, he is a difficult military person, but we communicate with him. But things are not easy," Dbeibah said during an interview at Libya's U.N. mission.
 
anatta said:
updates for events/culture /terrorism/nation building -all things related to Libya that aren't necessarily current events;
but are of interest/comments.
Thanks to staff for the accommodation! :)
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East Libyan forces launch air strike against rivals in central desert
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-idUSKBN14F0QV
Forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said they had carried out an air strike against opponents in the central Jufra region on Monday.

Ahmed al-Mismari, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), said the strike had targeted a camp used by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), a force that the LNA has previously clashed with.

The LNA and the BDB are on opposite sides of a conflict in which two loose and shifting alliances have battled for power in Libya since 2014, aligning themselves with rival governments in Tripoli and the east.

In recent months the LNA, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, has made military gains in Benghazi and Libya's Oil Crescent region, provoking several attempted counter-attacks by his rivals.

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libya sucks and is full of religious nut cakes and radicals . i know this because I know people from there
 
20 migrants drown off Libya's coast
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-migration-official-20-migrants-165818833.html
This photo provided by the International Organization for Migration shows migrants from four boats being returned to the shore in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Libya's coast guard intercepted Wednesday four boats in the Mediterranean Sea carrying migrants trying to reach Europe, a U.N. official said. According to the migrants, 20 people from one of the vessels had gone overboard earlier in the day and were presumed to have drowned. (International Organization for Migration, via AP)
t was the latest disaster in the Mediterranean involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

Since Tuesday, a total of seven vessels smuggling hundreds of migrants were intercepted off Libya's coast, Msehli also said. Around 500 migrants, including nine children and 43 women, were returned to shore and taken to the Mabani detention center in Tripoli, she said.

Many of the migrants were exhausted and suffered from dehydration, she added.

There has been a spike in crossings and attempted crossings from Libya in recent months. Amnesty International has said that in the first six months of this year, more than 7,000 people intercepted at sea were forcibly returned to detention camps in Libya.

“The situation in the central Mediterranean is a humanitarian crisis,” Msehli said. “We are in July, and already have exceeded the number of interceptions for the entire year of 2020.”

An IOM report earlier this month said the number of migrants and refugees who died while attempting to reach Europe on dangerous sea crossings more than doubled so far this year, compared to the first six months of 2020.

The report said at least 1,146 people perished between January and June, with the Central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest, claiming 741 lives.

The deadliest shipwreck so far this year took place on April 22 off Libya, when 130 people drowned despite the ship sending multiple distress calls.

Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East. The oil-rich country plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

Rights groups and officials at U.N. agencies that work with migrants and refugees have for years now cited survivor testimony about systematic abuse in the detention camps in Libya, including forced labor, beatings, rapes and torture. The abuse often accompanies efforts to extort money from families before migrants are allowed to leave Libya on traffickers’ boats.
 
Worst Tripoli fighting in a year shows limits of Libya peace push
https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...ear-shows-limits-libya-peace-push-2021-09-03/

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Smoke rises after an attack on the Administrative Control Authority in Tripoli, Libya, August 31, 2021.

Fighting broke out in Tripoli early on Friday between rival armed forces, the heaviest clashes in the Libyan capital since the conflict between eastern and western factions paused a year ago.

A resident of the Salah al-Din district in southern Tripoli said shooting began at about 2.30 a.m. and continued through the morning with medium and light weapons.

Conflict in Tripoli between the armed groups who vie to control both territory and state institutions would further undermine the prospect of December elections as part of a plan to end a decade of chaos, violence and division.

Despite a ceasefire and progress earlier this year towards a political solution to Libya's crisis, there has been no movement towards integrating its myriad armed groups into a unified national military.

The new fighting pitted the 444 Brigade against the Stabilisation Support Force, two of the main forces in Tripoli, a witness said.

The head of the Tripoli Military Zone, a structure set up to organise the various armed forces in the city during the civil war, indicated that the fighting was aimed at curbing the activities of 444 Brigade.

"What happened is to correct the brigade's deviation from its course and non-compliance with military orders," Abdulbaset Marwan said in a video statement.

The 444 Brigade told Reuters it had been "surprised by an assault by armed men" and said it was surprised at Marwan's statement.

The United Nations Libya mission called for an immediate halt in the fighting, saying it had "grave concern".

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Libya is a major oil producer and though it has been able to maintain output over the past decade, disputes have sometimes shut down exports, including for months last year.

The fighting follows major clashes last month in the city of Zawiya, west of Tripoli, and smaller incidents of friction or clashes inside the capital including a gunfight this week at a state institution.

In eastern Libya, controlled by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), there have also been shootings and other incidents of violence in recent months.

he Tripoli-based unity government has however struggled to unify state institutions or prepare for elections, with the eastern-based parliament rejecting its budget and failing to agree a constitutional basis for a vote.

Political factions have squabbled repeatedly over the role and powers of the interim government as well as over the control of state institutions and the public purse.

Wolfram Lacher, of the German thinktank SWP, said that although there was the possibility of further escalation, a mediated solution was likely to resolve the fighting in the short term.

However, "similar clashes are bound to recur in Tripoli and elsewhere", he added.
 
Saadi Gaddafi: Son of former Libya leader freed from jail
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/6/libya-frees-saadi-gaddafi-son-of-former-leader
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During the 2011 uprising, Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned in Tripoli ever since.

The former professional footballer was accused of crimes committed against protesters in 2011 and of killing Libyan football coach Bashir al-Rayani in 2005.

He was acquitted of al-Rayani’s murder in April 2018.

A source at the prosecutor’s office told the AFP news agency that “the chief prosecutor asked, several months ago, for the execution of the decision relating to Saadi Gaddafi as soon as all the required conditions had been satisfied”.

He was free to stay in the country or leave, the source added.

in July the New York Times newspaper said it had interviewed Saadi’s brother, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was held for years in the town of Zintan, as his supporters indicate he will run in the upcoming presidential elections.
 
Egypt's Sisi meets Libyan strongman Haftar, parliament speaker
https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypts-sisi-meets-libyan-strongman-133440945.html
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A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on September 14, 2021, shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) meeting with Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar (2nd-R) and Libyan Parliament speaker Aguila Saleh (2nd-L) in Cairo (AFP/-)


Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar and parliament speaker Aguila Saleh on Tuesday, the Egyptian presidency said.

Haftar leads forces that have de facto control over Libya's east and part of the south, and is increasingly expected to run in the country's presidential poll later this year.

Cairo has long been seen as one of Haftar's main supporters.

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel also took part in the meeting, Egyptian presidential spokesman Bassam Radi said, without providing details on the exchange.

In August, the US ambassador to Libya Richard Norland travelled to Cairo "to meet with Egyptian officials and... Haftar as part of US efforts to support Libyan parliamentary and presidential elections in December", the embassy said at the time.

Oil-rich Libya is trying to extricate itself from a decade of turmoil following the 2011 toppling of dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

In recent years, the country was split between rival administrations backed by foreign powers and myriad militias.

Haftar's forces were routed from the country's west last year, and the two camps signed a ceasefire deal in Geneva in October.

An interim government was established earlier this year to lead Libya towards December 24 parliamentary and presidential polls.

Parliament speaker Saleh last week ratified a law governing the presidential election, sparking criticism he failed to follow due process and was seeking to favour Haftar.

Sisi in February pledged support for neighbouring Libya in talks with the country's then newly appointed interim prime minister, Abdulhamid Dbeibah.
 
Ghadaffi was getting ready to move The African Union to the Gold Standard.

That's why the globalist bankers had Hillary assassinate him.

It plunged Libya into total chaos.

There are no heroes there. Most likely the winners are ISIS-types. Hopefully there's some non-ISIS-type winners.
 
North Africa virus cases plummeting after summer spike
https://www.france24.com/en/live-ne...ica-virus-cases-plummeting-after-summer-spike
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Libya, where state institutions have been degraded by a decade of conflict, has officially recorded 4,500 Covid deaths among its seven million people.

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Libya closed its border with Tunisia in July following the deadly surge in cases in its northwestern neighbour but reopened it on Friday after the caseload eased
 
Like its neighbours, it has reported a peak in infections followed by a sharp drop in recent weeks.

In the last week of July it recorded 24,000 new cases and 204 deaths, but the past seven days have seen just a third of that number of infections and 83 deaths.

The divided country's vaccination campaign got off to a slow start but, on August 11, a centre was opened in the capital Tripoli, with another in the country's east 10 days later -- followed by a string of smaller ones.

An AFP tally shows that just over 18 percent of Libyans have received a first jab.

But the vaccines -- China's Sinovac and Russia's Sputnik V -- have arrived in irregular batches, and just two percent of Libyans have received the full two doses.

Libyan health authorities have noted a fall in infections in the west after the border with neighbouring Tunisia was closed on July 8.

The frontier reopened on Friday with strict health measures in place to prevent another uptick in cases.

Authorities fear eastern Libya could see a similar uptick as cases surge in neighbouring Egypt.
 
Here is a look at the situation in the four countries of the Maghreb -- Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya -- based on official figures collected by AFP.

- Tunisia -

Images of intensive care units overwhelmed with Covid patients in July sparked outrage in Tunisia, which has suffered the region's highest number of deaths per head from the virus, with around 24,500 in a population of 11.7 million.

At its peak, the latest wave saw more than 55,000 new infections between 7-13 July -- a weekly figure seven times the current rate. The past seven days saw 342 deaths from the virus -- just a fifth of the toll in the last week of July.

Authorities responded to the surge with a strict early evening curfew and travel restrictions. Neighbouring Libya closed its border with Tunisia. Those measures have now been eased.

"There's the effect of mass vaccination of the population," said Hechmi Louzir, director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, who is a member of the country's scientific committee on the pandemic.

He told AFP that up to 60 percent of the population could be fully vaccinated by October, adding that large numbers of infections had also boosted levels of immunity.

AFP figures show that over the past week, Tunisia was vaccinating its population faster than any other African country, with 0.81 percent of the population per day receiving a jab.

More than a quarter of Tunisians are now fully inoculated.

- Morocco -

Morocco has seen 13,800 Covid deaths in its population of around 36 million, according to AFP figures.

The kingdom is ahead of its Maghreb neighbours in inoculations, with 46.7 percent fully vaccinated.

Morocco saw a surge in infections after easing a curfew and opening its borders to travellers in June. That allowed Moroccans in European countries hard hit by the highly infectious Delta variant to return home for summer holidays.

The caseload spiralled, with some 70,000 new cases over one week in early August. Authorities responded by imposing a new curfew and restrictions on movement and gatherings.
A new surge in Covid cases in early August prompted Moroccan authorities to impose a new curfew and restrictions on movement and gatherings

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A new surge in Covid cases in early August prompted Moroccan authorities to impose a new curfew and restrictions on movement and gatherings

Health ministry official Abdelkrim Meziane Bellefquih said this week that infections were down for a fifth straight week. But in comments carried by the official MAP news agency, he warned that "high rates of critical cases and deaths continue to be recorded".

The country has pushed back the start of the new school year to October 1 and has launched a vaccination drive among teenagers.

- Algeria -

With an official toll of 5,650 deaths, Algeria announced a target in September to vaccinate 70 percent of its 43.9 million population by the end of the year.

But AFP figures show that this week, barely 13 percent of the population had received a first vaccine jab, with fewer than 10 percent fully vaccinated.

The country's caseload peaked in the last week of July with over 10,000 infections, but has since plummeted.

While the first week of August saw 268 deaths, the last seven days saw 132.

Authorities have retained a curfew but reopened beaches, entertainment venues and sports grounds, with spectators required to present health passes. Weddings remain banned -- as do political protests.

Algeria relaunched international flights in June after a suspension of more than a year.
 
Libya delays long-awaited election
https://news.yahoo.com/libya-vote-impossible-friday-parliament-095705238.html
he election, intended to go hand-in-hand with parliamentary polls, was part of a United Nations-led peace process, yet the UN's special envoy Jan Kubis resigned just weeks before the ballot.

Among the controversial candidates were Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, whom the International Criminal Court accuses of war crimes, and eastern military chief Khalifa Haftar, who led a failed assault on Tripoli.

Interim prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah's candidacy also sparked controversy as he had pledged not to run as part of his original leadership bid.

"Every single faction in Libya has an issue with one of these three candidates," said Claudia Gazzini, a Libya expert at the International Crisis Group think tank.

"So they tried to stop these candidates from running using legal means, but failing that there seems to have been an informal agreement between some factions not to let the elections go forward," she told AFP.
 
anatta said:
updates for events/culture /terrorism/nation building -all things related to Libya that aren't necessarily current events;
but are of interest/comments.
Thanks to staff for the accommodation! :)
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East Libyan forces launch air strike against rivals in central desert
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-idUSKBN14F0QV
Forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said they had carried out an air strike against opponents in the central Jufra region on Monday.

Ahmed al-Mismari, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), said the strike had targeted a camp used by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), a force that the LNA has previously clashed with.

The LNA and the BDB are on opposite sides of a conflict in which two loose and shifting alliances have battled for power in Libya since 2014, aligning themselves with rival governments in Tripoli and the east.

In recent months the LNA, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, has made military gains in Benghazi and Libya's Oil Crescent region, provoking several attempted counter-attacks by his rivals.

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STILL NOBODY GAF ABOUT YOUR LIBYA LIES
 
anatta said:
Libya expects more oil production after pipeline reopening Dec. 22, 2016
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2016/12/libya-expects-more-oil-production-after-pipeline-reopening.html
Libya’s National Oil Corp. said an oil pipeline that had been shut down for more than 2 years has reopened in western Libya.

NOC estimated the reopening of the pipeline along with increasing production from two oil fields could supply an additional 270,000 b/d of crude oil within 3 months. The reopened oil fields were Sharara and El Feel.

Libya’s current production fell to less than 300,000 b/d at times during 2016. Analysts noted that it remains uncertain if Libya will get additional oil to the world market. The nation’s oil production fell from a peak of more than 1.6 million b/d after Moammar Gadhafi death in 2011.

Increased Libyan production could complicate an attempt by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries attempt to support oil prices. OPEC plans to cut cartel production by 1.2 million b/d starting in January 2017. Libya and Nigeria were exempted from that agreement.



The fields could add 175,000 b/d to Libya’s output within 1 month, NOC estimated, adding that volume could grow to 270,000 b/d in 3 months. OPEC reported Libya produced almost 575,000 b/d during November.
Libya oil production moves up to 685,000 bpd ! Jan 1

NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanallah issued a news release saying the pipeline and fields were reopened without any “payoffs” or “backroom deals.”

Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa and the tenth largest globally. Since 2011, when country's longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled, Libyan oil production had dropped from 1.65 million barrels per day to 250,000 in August 2016.

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GET THIS TRASH OUT OF CURRENT EVENTS................ITS SOO 2008!
 
This one you talking about?

dukkha said:
do me a favor then. there is a thread I started in Off Topics called "Libya News and Interests"
I may have posted on it this year ? -but it's back many pages and I cent find it manually
I recall starting it on Jan 1st - but not what year

I am computer stupid ( just another old guy) but if you could find it and bump it for me i'd consider it
a favor.. I tried the "search" function but it never works for me.. TY
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