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Al-Thulti: Presidency Council convenes meetings on resignation of Vice-President Musa Koni.
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Tripoli, 03.01.2017(Lana) Presidency Council spokesman, Asdhraf Al-Thelti has announced that the presidency council is convening meetings on the resignation of vice-president Musa Koni, and is making efforts to convince him to reverse his decision. At his weekly press briefing, Monday, al Thulti also touched on the financial arrangements regarding 2017 budget approved by the presidency council totaling 37.56 billion dollars for all sectors, which details are post on GNA website. The GNA official spokesman said talks are underway with the Central bank of Libya on... Read more
International Red Crescent delivers medical supplies to Serte Health Centres.
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Serte, 03.01.2017(Lana) Medical supplies were delivered Tuesday to several health centres in Serte by the International Red Crescent in collaboration with the health sector, Serte Crisis Committee, and Red Crescent Society Misrata branch. Director of Serte Health services, Dr Khalifa Mohamed told Lana that the aid included medical supplies for emergency and surgery departments. He also urged the authorities to supply health utilities in Serte with medicine and other medical supplies. =... Read more
Deputy Head of Presidency Council Submits His Resignation to Fayez Al Saraj.
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Tripoli, 3 January 2016(Lana) The Deputy Head of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord Musa Al Koni has submitted his resignation to the Head of the Council Fayez Al Saraj. A spokesman for the Presidency Council has confirmed resignation of Al Koni, saying the council was exerting effort to convince Al Koni to reverse his decision. The Spokesman gave no details about the reasons behind Al Koni's resignation. =... Read more
Conscription and Reserve Dept at General Staff announces conscription in military services.
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Ghiryan, 01.02.2017 (Lana) Conscription and Reserve Department at the General Staff of the Libyan Army has announced its plans to conscript Libyan youth wishing to serve in the Presidential Guard. It detailed the criteria and standards that the conscripts should fulfill such as be Libyan national, not married to foreigner, be of age category between 18- 30 and be medically fit to serve in the army and pledge to work at any unit of the Libyan army within Libyan borders. After medical tests successful candidates would be interviewed by head of conscription committee and... Read more
Libya oil production up to 685,000 barrels.
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Tripoli, 02.01.2017(Lana) National Oil Corporation has announced that Libya oil production was up Sunday to 685,000 bpd. The NOC attributed the increase to restoring oil production of main pipelines pumping oil out of Sharara and the Elephant oil fields in the west part of the country. The oil production from the Sharara oil field which has a production capacity of 330,000 bpd will resume gradually but no announcement was made about resuming oil production from the Elephant oil field which produces 90,000 bpd of crude oil, it explained. NOC further said it hoped to... Read more