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Sunday, 24 January, 2021 - 07:30 Members of the Libyan dialogue seen in Bouznika on Saturday. (Asharq Al-Awsat) London, Bouznika – Hatem Betioui and Asharq Al-Awsat Gatherers at the Libyan dialogue held in Morocco agreed on the formation and members of a small working group that would be tasked with taking practical steps over the appointments to sovereign positions. The positions were explained in article 15 of the political ag...

By Sami Zaptia. London, 24 January 2021: A funeral prayer ceremony was held Friday in Martyrs Square in Tripoli for 14 male and female victims of alleged massacres by the pro-Khalifa Hafter Kani family militia (Kaniat) recovered from mass graves in Tarhuna. At one time the Kaniat were aligned to the Tripoli government, then suddenly they switched position and aligned themselves with Hafter to fight against the pro-Tripoli forces. The families of the victims and others still missing in Tarhuna d...

By Sami Zaptia. The HoR and HSC agreed in Bouznika on the geographical distribution of the top sovereign positions (Photo: Moroccan Foreign Ministry). London, 24 January 2021: The Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) and High State Council (HSC) 13+13 Committee meeting in Bouznika, Rabat, Morocco have agreed that Libya’s top sovereign positions will be distributed regionally and within agreed meritocratic criteria. The agreement comes within Article 15 of the 2015 Skhirat Libyan Political A...

Article content (Bloomberg) — Members of a Libyan paramilitary force responsible for safeguarding the OPEC nation’s oil ports ordered a halt in crude exports at three eastern terminals while they press salary demands. Petroleum Facilities Guard members ordered the suspension of loading at Es Sider, the country’s largest port, as well as Hariga and Ras Lanuf, according to people familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified. The tanker Dubai Hope, currently at Ras Lanuf, woul...

January 24, 2021 at 4:13 pm | Published in: Africa, Libya, News The oil terminal of Marsa al-Hariga in Libya on 9 April 2014 [ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP via Getty Images] January 24, 2021 at 4:13 pm Libyas Petroleum Facilities Guard on Sunday ordered a suspension of oil exports at Al-Hariga port in the eastern city of Tobruk over a pay dispute, Anadolu reports. The private Al-Ahrar TV tweeted that the paramilitary force, which is affiliated with warlord Khalifa Haftar, halted oil exports from the po...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has announced the commencement of the submission of candidacies for membership of the executive authority. The preparatory phase will occur between...

Haftar had used Tarhuna as the main staging point for his failed attempt to seize the capital in a military offensive launched in April 2019

2021-01-23 01:35:16 GMT2021-01-23 09:35:16(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TRIPOLI, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- A total of 139 bodies have been recovered from mass graves in the Libyan city of Tarhuna since June 2020, according to a local official. Lutfi Tawfeeq, head of the Department of Search for Remains, said that the bodies were recovered from 47 mass graves in Tarhuna, located some 90 km south of the capital Tripoli. A group of families of victims on Friday held a prayer in Tripoli for 16 new...

Arabic Situation Report on Libya about Food and Nutrition, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 22 Jan 2021 by OCHA