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Norland stresses the importance of all Libyan stakeholders engaging with the UNSMIL political process.
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Tripoli, 6 March 2024 (Lana) U.S. Special Envoy to Libya Ambassador Richard Norland and Chargé d'Affaires Berndt met yesterday with the Head of the Government of National Unity, Abdul-Hamid Dbaiba.“We discussed the importance of all Libyan stakeholders engaging constructively with the UNSMIL political process to remove remaining obstacles to elections, including the formation of a caretaker government,” Norland said in a tweet.Norland reiterated his... Read more
Norland and El-Kabeer agree that Libya needs a unified budget.
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Tripoli, March 6, 2024 (Lana): U.S. Special Envoy to Libya Ambassador Richard Norland said that he agreed with the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Al-Siddiq El-Kabeer, that Libya needs a unified budget to bring accountability and transparency to public spending and to help the CBL protect the dinar against further depreciation on the parallel market, especially in light of reports that imported counterfeit currency is being used to buy dollars and euros.According to a tweet... Read more
El-Kabeer meets with the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia.
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Tripoli, March 5, 2024 (Lana): The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Al-Siddiq El-Kabeer, met yesterday at his office with the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Libya, Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Shehri.The bank stated today that the meeting came as part of Al-Shehri’s resumption of his diplomatic work in Libya and preparations for the reopening of the headquarters of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Libya.The meeting... Read more
"Libya repatriated more than 10.000 illegal migrants last year," Trabelsi says.
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Tripoli, March 5, 2024 (Lana): GNU Minister of Interior, Imad Trabelsi, said Libya had repatriated 10.000 illegal migrants last year, stressing that this phenomenon had become an obsession troubling Libya and the Mediterranean countries, and it worsened with the absence of a plan to address it, calling for mobilization of all security, political, and military authorities to reduce the danger of the influx of migrants.Trabelsi's statements came during a session organized yesterday by the... Read more
Seizure of the largest shipment of cocaine in Benghazi seaport.
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Benghazi 5 March 2024 (Lana) Narcotics and Psychotropic Control Agency seized a shipment, which it described as “historic,” carrying the secrets of an international crime in Benghazi seaport.The agency said in a statement yesterday that its security personnel, in cooperation with military units seized the largest quantity of cocaine in the country's history, through a qualitative operation in Benghazi seaport, whose value is more than 224 million Libyan.... Read more
