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Last Updated On: Feb 08 2021 11:40 Gmt+3 The two leaders of the transitional executive authority in Libya chosen Friday by Libyan delegates in Switzerland are figures known for their loyalty to Turkey. The two interim leaders who emerged from the vote are Misratan businessman Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah, who is close to Ankara. He will serve as prime minister till elections are held in Libya by the end of the year.  He is a former ambassador to Greece, who was expelled by Athens after the ...

Saturday 06/02/2021 A staff person shows the empty ballot box after delegates voted for the new interim government during a meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Chavannes de Bogis, near Geneva on February 5, 2021. (AFP) GENEVA – The two leaders of the transitional executive authority in Libya chosen Friday by Libyan delegates in Switzerland are  figures known for their loyalty to Turkey. The two interim leaders who emerged from the vote are  Misratan businessman Abdul Hamid Moh...

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Ali Abu Al-Hojob (Member of the Presidency Council); Idriss Suleiman Ahmed Al-Qaed (Member of the Presidency Council); Mohammad Khaled Adbullah Ghweil (Prime Minister) List 2: Abdul Rahman Mohammed Abu Al-Qassem Al-Balazi (Member of the Presidency Council); Omar Mahdi Aboushrida (Member of the Presidency Council); Mohammed Abdul-Lateef Al-Montaser (Prime Minister) List 3: Mossa Al-Koni (Member of the Presidency Council); Abdullah Hussein Al-Lafi (Member of the Presidency Council); Abdul Hamid M...

Libyan delegates at UN-backed talks began voting Friday for a transitional prime minister and three-member presidency council to govern the war-ravaged North African country until December elections. They were voting on four alternative line-ups for the four posts: prime minister, president of the presidency council and two further members of the presidency council.

UNHCR Update Libya (5 February 2021) [EN/AR] Format Population movement Within the last 48 hours some 700 people have been brought back and disembarked in Tripoli by Libyan coastal authorities, in four separate operations. UNHCR and its partner, the International Rescue Committee, were present at the disembarkation points to provide urgent medical assistance and core relief items before individuals were transferred to detention centres by the Libyan authorities. With these latest disembarkation...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 2/5/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The European Space Agencys Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this chilly photo of New York City on Feb. 4, 2021 showing the city blanketed in snow. This recent snow storm was classified as "major" and affected a majority of the Northeast United States, with New York declaring a state of emergency for both the immense snowfall and blistering winds. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an Ear...

A United Nations-led Libya forum has voted on an interim government, choosing Mohammed al-Menfi as presidency council head and Abdulhamid Dbeibeh as prime minister. The election of a unified administration aims at ending a division in Libya that has lasted for more than five years, with two rival governments, and their affiliated armed groups, running different parts of the North African country. Seventy-four members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), which includes Libyans from dif...

Libya Fast Facts Here’s some background information about Libya, an oil-rich country in North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt,Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan. About Libya Area: 1,759,540 square kilometers (slightly larger than Alaska) Population: 7,017,224 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 25.8 years Capital: Tripoli Ethnic groups: Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians and Tunisians) Religion: Sunni Muslim ...

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli NGOs reject ”war criminal” Saleh being appointed in any new political position during the Geneva LPDF process (Photo: UNSMIL). London, 4 February 2021: Three NGOs representing Greater Tripoli (the Tripolitanian Society, the Tripoli Elders and Wise Council and Sug Juma Elders and Wise Council) today rejected any controversial figures being appointed to high office by the UNSMIL-brokered Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) process currently meeting in Geneva. War c...