Page 325 - Libya General News Today

Lets Stop Referring to "African Decor" as One Style Nafeesah Allen © Alice Morgan - Getty Images Stop what you’re doing right now and Google “African Decor": The results are a wild mashup. Summarizing the design of 54 countries in one style is absurd. Stop what you’re doing right now and Google “African Design.” Browse a few entries and click down a bit to see if you can find anything that is close to coherent. Don’t worry—I’ll wait... My own search resulted ...

UK sanctions Libyas pro-Haftar militia al-Kaniyat Al-Kaniyat militia oversaw 5-year reign of terror until 2020, torturing and murdering innocent people, says foreign secretary 2021-05-13 16:23:24 LONDON Britain on Thursday imposed sanctions on al-Kaniyat militia group in Libya for atrocities it has committed in Libya. “The Libyan al-Kaniyat militia oversaw a 5-year reign of terror until 2020, torturing and murdering innocent people,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote in a Twitter message...

Please Stop Using the Term "African Decor" Summarizing the design of 54 countries in one style is absurd. By Nafeesah Allen Alice MorganGetty Images Stop what you’re doing right now and Google “African Design.” Browse a few entries and click down a bit to see if you can find anything that is close to coherent. Don’t worry—I’ll wait... My own search resulted in a gallery of kitsch fabric styles, moribund web pages from African design institutions like the MOADJHB, and spec...

(May 14, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, Commonwealth forces in North Africa launched a limited offensive against Erwin Rommel’s Axis forces. Before delving into the particulars of that operation, let’s reacquaint ourselves with the history. Libya was an Italian colony, and had been so since the Kingdom of Italy wrested it from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. It was bordered on the west and south by the French colonies of Tunisia, Algeria and modern-day Chad and Niger. It was bordered on t...

James Cleverly, Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, said: These new sanctions send a clear message that those responsible for serious human rights violations or breaches of international humanitarian law in Libya will face consequences. The al-Kaniyat militia and its leaders, Mohamed al-Kani and Abdurahem al-Kani, oversaw a reign of terror in Tarhuna, Libya, which included enforced disappearances, torture, and the killing of civilians. The persistent climate of impunity in Libya must...

Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 07:00 Head of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohamed al-Menfi (Reuters) Cairo - Khalid Mahmoud Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohammad al-Menfi has warned Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush, saying she committed a violation after dismissing and replacing three ambassadors and delegates. In a message leaked to the media, Menfi asked Mangoush to refrain from such measures in the future, unless done ...

Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on the Kaniyat militia, which is allegedly behind a spate of gruesome murders, kidnapping and torture of civilians in Libya. London placed restrictions on the group and its leaders Mohamed al-Kani and Abdurahem al-Kani for what it said was a "reign of terror" in the town of Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli. Middle East and North Africa minister James Cleverly said the militia was responsible for enforced disappearances, torture and the killing of civilians. ...

The Embassy of Libya, the British Museum and HMRC collaborate to return a rare, ancient funerary statue The statue has now been transferred to the Libyan Embassy. LONDON .-The British Museum and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have collaborated with the Embassy of Libya to assist in the return of a rare and striking 2nd century BC funerary statue from Cyrene. The statue was seized by Border Force officials at Heathrow airport several years ago having been illicitly imported into the United Kingdo...

LONDON: An ancient Libyan statue, believed to be looted from the country during its civil war, has been returned from Britain. The 2,200-year-old figure was seized at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2013 under suspicion that it was illicitly imported. Experts from the British Museum were called in to assist efforts to identify the statue. “Only a handful of these sculptural types

Libya pumped 1.168 million b/d of crude in April, the North African producer revealed to OPEC in the producer group’s latest monthly oil market report. April crude production slid by 115,000 b/d compared to the 1.283 million b/d it reported for March, the report released on May 11 showed. According to the monthly S&P Global ...