Local News: Political News
The Competition Council and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) are exploring the exchange of expertise in the areas of competition protection and consumer rights.
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Tripoli – March 3, 2026 (LANA) – The Competition and Anti-Monopoly Council held a coordination meeting with the head of the "Support" project, affiliated with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), to enhance technical cooperation and exchange expertise in the areas of competition protection and consumer rights.During the meeting, held yesterday in Tripoli, discussions focused on mechanisms to support the development and activation of the complaints management system, strengthen the violations monitoring, ... Read more
Tripoli Criminal Court sentences nine people involved in smuggling drugs from Belgium to prison
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Tripoli, March 3, 2026 (LANA) – The Tripoli Criminal Court sentenced eight defendants to life imprisonment for their involvement in smuggling narcotics and psychotropic substances concealed in vehicles arriving on the vessels Grand California and Grand España from the port of Antwerp in the Kingdom of Belgium.The Public Prosecutor's Office stated that after the Public Prosecution filed charges against nine defendants in this case, the Tripoli Criminal Court, in its final session, sentenced the first eight defendants to life... Read more
Members of Parliament declare the law imposing taxes on goods and services invalid, considering it to have no legal effect.
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Benghazi, March 3, 2026 (LANA) – Members of the House of Representatives announced the annulment of the law imposing taxes on goods and services, deeming it legally invalid.This came in a statement issued after a meeting of several members of the House of Representatives on Monday night at the parliament building in Benghazi.The members stressed the cancellation of the decision to authorize exchange companies to sell foreign currency outside the framework of the approved banking system,... Read more
Presidential Deputy Al-Lafi meets with UN Envoy Tetteh
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Tripoli, March 3, 2026 (LANA) – Deputy Head of the Presidential Council, Abdullah Al-Lafi met, on Monday, with the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Hanna Tetteh, as part of high-level consultations on the latest developments in the political process and prospects for advancing it towards a comprehensive and sustainable national settlement.The Presidential Council's media office reported that Tetteh briefed Al-Lafi on the contents of her recent briefing to the UN Security Council, particularly... Read more
Al-Menfi to Dbeibah: The formation of governments or any amendment to their structure is subject exclusively to what is stipulated in the constitutional references governing the Libyan Political Agreement.
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Tripoli, March 3, 2026 (LANA) – Presidential Council Chairman Mohammed Al-Menfi stated that the formation of governments or any changes to their structure are subject exclusively to the provisions of the governing constitutional frameworks, namely the Libyan Political Agreement and its annexes included in the Constitutional Declaration and its amendments.This came in a letter addressed by Al-Menfi to the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, in which he began by noting Dbeibah's intention to... Read more
