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By Sami Zaptia. The planned meeting for today and tomorrow by the 127  unified HoR members was postponed to due lack of funds and a leadership dispute (Photo: HoR Tripoli). London, 21 December 2020: The consultative meeting of 127 members of the unified Libyan parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), planned in Ghadames today has been postponed, the Tripoli-based LANA state news agency reported today. The lack of money and disputes over who should preside over the planned Ghadames meet...

December 23, 2020 TRIPOLI, Libya Libyan authorities on Wednesday found two new mass graves in the city of Tarhuna, 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of the capital Tripoli. Abdelaziz al-Ja’fari, spokesman for the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons, said the two graves were discovered in Mashru’a Alrabet area in Tarhuna, a former stronghold of eastern warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces. He, however, did not specify how many bodies were exhumed from ...

December 23, 2020 TRIPOLI, Libya Thirty members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum have on December 14 threatened to pull out from the talks accusing the UN mission of “designing” positions for specific people, in reference to Aqila Saleh, the Speaker of the Tobruk Parliament.  The news, which risks putting the entire UN-sponsored political process in limbo, comes amid military maneuvers by forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar. Proposals made by the UN to reduce the percentage of vot...

WFP Libya Country Brief, November 2020 Format 1,056 MT of food assistance distributed in November USD 11.4 m six-month (January – June WFP 2021) net funding requirements Operational Updates • In November 2020, WFP reached 104,766 people in need through its programmes in Libya, which include direct general and emergency food distributions, emergency food distributions through the inter-agency Rapid Response Mechanism, food support through an e-voucher modality, food assistance for training a...

Modern Diplomacy The country of Libya has witnessed two main internal conflicts, one of them the anti-Qadhafi regime protests which at the end of the day was removed from power and brutally was killed. The second wave of protests erupted upon the regime’s fall which divided the state into two opposing sides. Thus, fighting between parties grew strained and involved both regional and international powers. On one side Turkey, Qatar, and Italy supported Tripoli’s UN-recognized government and o...

How the UAE, Russia and France have teamed up in Libya Topics Insight Russia is accused of using a Syrian airline to send mercenaries to the warlord Khalifa Haftar, with France and the UAE in support. The UAE, Russia and France are working in tandem to complicate the Libyan conflict and jeopardise all the work of the international community toward peacebuilding in the war-torn nation.  The latest manoeuvers the three powers have made are mostly aimed at sending more mercenary fighters ranging ...

DCS World Players Recreated The First Two Air-to-Air Engagements Of The F-14 Tomcat DCS World Players Recreated The First Two Air-to-Air Engagements Of The F-14 Tomcat Two F-14 Tomcats as seen in DCS World. (Photo: Eagle Dynamics/Heatblur Simulations) For the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the legendary F-14 Tomcat, we get a look at how its legacy is still carried on by aviation enthusiasts using today’s technology. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat flew for the first time 50 years ago, on Dec...

First ‘Cash for Work’ initiative in Libya launched in Abu Salim December 21, 2020 The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) partnered with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the Municipality of Abu Salim to implement the first “Cash for Work” initiative in Libya. 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 Develo...

Was it real?  It’s all been erased so completely, so much blood has been shed and destruction wreaked over the past decade. The idea that there was a moment when millions across the Middle East wanted freedom and change so much that they took to the streets seems like romantic nostalgia. “It was very brief, man. It was so brief,” said Badr Elbendary, an Egyptian activist. In this 11th February, 2011, file photo, anti-government protesters perform the Muslim Friday prayers at the continui...

Recoveries: 351,722 Actions to slow the spread of Covid-19: 17 December: Vaccination drive begins with Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah receiving the Covid-19 jab in Riyadh.  15 December: Health ministry starts registrations to receive Covid-19 vaccine. Vaccination will be free and is divided into three stages, the first of which will cover citizens and residents who are over 65 years old; professionals who are most vulnerable to infection; people who are obese and have a body mass of more ...