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Minister for Veterans Affairs TOMORROW the nation commemorates the 80 th anniversary of the Battle of Bardia, in Libya, the first land battle of the Second World War planned and fought predominantly by Australians. Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Darren Chester said the effort by the 6th Australian Division in the Battle of Bardia was widely praised at the time. “Australian soldiers, in what was then known as the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, launched a two-pronged attack against the Italia...

InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2020/12/29 Ibrahim Kamara left The Gambia and arrived in Cyprus in 2018. Although he didn’t know where Cyprus was, or really intend to land there, he has made the best of his situation. Today he has found happiness and a way to live in peace on the Mediterranean island that has become his new home. InfoMigrants caught up with him by telephone. Ibrahim is apologetic as soon as he picks up the...

By Sami Zaptia. London, 29 December 2020: A high-level Egyptian delegation headed by Undersecretary of the Egyptian Intelligence Service visited Tripoli on Sunday (27 December). It was the first such visit in six years. It will be recalled that the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli closed in 2014 when Libya Dawn militias carried out a coup, which eventually led to the current political division in Libya. The Tripoli Foreign Ministry’s Official Spokesperson, Mohamed Giblawi, said they discussed act...

The normalisation plague is deadlier than the Covid-19 pandemic Tunisian protest against the the normalisation deals with Israel in Tunis, on 18 August 2020 [FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images] December 29, 2020 at 9:56 am The year 2020 is almost history, but its incidents and events are not only likely to continue, but also escalate. There are implications regionally and internationally. There is still no solution for the conflict in Libya, for example. Negotiations have stalled, despite the ce...

  When Hurricane Gloria hit the Island in September 1985, it was the first major storm to affect Long Island directly since Hurricane Donna in 1960. Overall, the storm caused extensive damage along the East Coast of the United States, amounting to $900 million and was responsible for eight fatalities. LILCo’s lackluster and much criticized response to Hurricane Gloria helped to convince people that the power company could not effectively handle a disaster and helped hasten the demise of th...

Is Haftar Getting Ready For War With Turkey? Published December 27th, 2020 - 01:18 GMT Libyan Army General Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar (Twitter) Beefed up with cash, weapons and mercenaries, Haftar has ordered his militias to prepare for a war with Turkey, ignoring the UN-brokered ceasefire and other efforts aimed at ending the Libyan conflict. Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Thursday made a direct threat to Turkey, saying there will be no security or peace in the North Afri...

First “Cash for Work” initiative in Libya launched in Abu Salim 28 December, 2020 - 16:40 Country: Libya Source: UN Development Programme Abu Salim – As part of its effort to help conflict-affected people in Libya to have access to a temporary work opportunity for income generation, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the Municipality of Abu Salim to implement the first “Cash for Work” initiative in Liby...

12:22 م The High National Elections Commission organized a dialogue session in the city of Jadu on the role of the media in enhancing electoral participation. The session was attended by several media personalities and representatives of media outlets in Nafusa Mountain and professors of the Faculties of Media. The session, which was held under the supervision of the Al-Jabal 2 Electoral Administration Office, included a number of themes that covered the importance of the media in the elec...

First “Cash for Work” initiative in Libya launched in Abu Salim Format Abu Salim – As part of its effort to help conflict-affected people in Libya to have access to a temporary work opportunity for income generation, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the Municipality of Abu Salim to implement the first “Cash for Work” initiative in Libya. Funded by the Government of Japan, the first “cash for work” initiative in Li...