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Two million POS transactions in a single day across 67,000 points cause collapse of e-payment system - CBL apologises UNSMIL warns of escalation in Zawia and calls for restraint ahead of Eid al-Adha Minister of Economy and Trade affirms Ministry's orientation towards building a more disciplined and transparent business environment Labour Ministry developing specific, secure and healthy Labour Housing Project for legal expatriate workers Head of Airports Authority inaugurates first meeting tasked with testing readiness of systems and equipment at Tripoli International Airport Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts releases its Q1 2026 Report for the Libyan Tourism Sector Libyan Express announces launch of direct flights between Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and Malta starting 22 June Libyan Railroads meets China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. - joint committees to negotiate activating signed contracts Minister of Economy Abu Shiha approves 13 decisions related to foreign and joint ventures and commercial agencies Akakus Oil uses SLB’s Rhino Reamer technology - the first in the Middle East and North Africa – to successfully drill well M.24H-NC115 Two million POS transactions in a single day across 67,000 points cause collapse of e-payment system - CBL apologises UNSMIL warns of escalation in Zawia and calls for restraint ahead of Eid al-Adha Minister of Economy and Trade affirms Ministry's orientation towards building a more disciplined and transparent business environment Labour Ministry developing specific, secure and healthy Labour Housing Project for legal expatriate workers Head of Airports Authority inaugurates first meeting tasked with testing readiness of systems and equipment at Tripoli International Airport Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts releases its Q1 2026 Report for the Libyan Tourism Sector Libyan Express announces launch of direct flights between Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and Malta starting 22 June Libyan Railroads meets China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. - joint committees to negotiate activating signed contracts Minister of Economy Abu Shiha approves 13 decisions related to foreign and joint ventures and commercial agencies Akakus Oil uses SLB’s Rhino Reamer technology - the first in the Middle East and North Africa – to successfully drill well M.24H-NC115 Two million POS transactions in a single day across 67,000 points cause collapse of e-payment system - CBL apologises UNSMIL warns of escalation in Zawia and calls for restraint ahead of Eid al-Adha Minister of Economy and Trade affirms Ministry's orientation towards building a more disciplined and transparent business environment Labour Ministry developing specific, secure and healthy Labour Housing Project for legal expatriate workers Head of Airports Authority inaugurates first meeting tasked with testing readiness of systems and equipment at Tripoli International Airport Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts releases its Q1 2026 Report for the Libyan Tourism Sector Libyan Express announces launch of direct flights between Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and Malta starting 22 June Libyan Railroads meets China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. - joint committees to negotiate activating signed contracts Minister of Economy Abu Shiha approves 13 decisions related to foreign and joint ventures and commercial agencies Akakus Oil uses SLB’s Rhino Reamer technology - the first in the Middle East and North Africa – to successfully drill well M.24H-NC115 Two million POS transactions in a single day across 67,000 points cause collapse of e-payment system - CBL apologises UNSMIL warns of escalation in Zawia and calls for restraint ahead of Eid al-Adha Minister of Economy and Trade affirms Ministry's orientation towards building a more disciplined and transparent business environment Labour Ministry developing specific, secure and healthy Labour Housing Project for legal expatriate workers Head of Airports Authority inaugurates first meeting tasked with testing readiness of systems and equipment at Tripoli International Airport Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts releases its Q1 2026 Report for the Libyan Tourism Sector Libyan Express announces launch of direct flights between Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and Malta starting 22 June Libyan Railroads meets China Civil Engineering Construction Corp. - joint committees to negotiate activating signed contracts Minister of Economy Abu Shiha approves 13 decisions related to foreign and joint ventures and commercial agencies Akakus Oil uses SLB’s Rhino Reamer technology - the first in the Middle East and North Africa – to successfully drill well M.24H-NC115
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Libyan militias intensified suppression of dissent, attacks on civil society. Thousands arbitrarily detained, arrested for exercise of human rights: Amnesty International report
May 2 Sami Zaptia

Libyan militias intensified suppression of dissent, attacks on civil society. Thousands arbitrarily detained, arrested for exercise of human rights: Amnesty International report

Amnesty International’s Annual 2024 Report (pages 240-245), ‘‘The State of the World’s Human Rights’’, published on 23 April, says that Libya’s militi...

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Eastern Libya authorities must lift restrictions on journalists: Amnesty International
Sep 22 Sami Zaptia

Eastern Libya authorities must lift restrictions on journalists: Amnesty International

Khalifa Hafter’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces (formerly called the Libyan National Army - LNA), an armed group in control of eastern Libya, must immediate...

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Gnewa Kikli’s Stabilization Support Agency accuses Amnesty International of defamation
May 6 Sami Zaptia

Gnewa Kikli’s Stabilization Support Agency accuses Amnesty International of defamation

The Stabilization Support Agency, one of Tripoli's most powerful state-recognized militias, headed by Abdul Ghani Al Kikli commonly refered to as ''Gn...

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Hold Stability Support Authority militia leaders to account: Amnesty International
May 6 Sami Zaptia

Hold Stability Support Authority militia leaders to account: Amnesty International

‘‘Entrenched impunity has emboldened the state-funded Stability Support Authority (SSA) militia to commit unlawful killings, arbitrary detentions, int...

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Hafter’s army is ‘brutally crushing’ freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in Libyan territories under its control: Amnesty
Apr 19 Sami Zaptia

Hafter’s army is ‘brutally crushing’ freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in Libyan territories under its control: Amnesty

The eastern Libya-based Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the control of Hafter’s Libyan...

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U.S. House of Representatives passes the “Libya Stabilization Act”
Sep 29 Sami Zaptia

U.S. House of Representatives passes the “Libya Stabilization Act”

By Sami Zaptia.London, 29 September 2021:The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed the ‘‘Libya Stabilization Act’’ (HR 1228). The Act include...

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Apr 27 Sami Zaptia

Military courts in eastern Libya sentence hundreds of civilians in sham, torture-tainted trials: Amnesty International

By Sami Zaptia.London, 27 April 2021:Military courts have convicted hundreds of civilians in eastern Libya in secret and grossly unfair military trial...

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Nov 11 Sami Zaptia

Wide condemnation of assassination of female lawyer and activist Hanan Barassi in Benghazi

By Sami Zaptia.Female lawyer and activist Hanan Barassi was assassinated in Benghazi yesterday (Photo: Social media).London, 11 November 2020: There h...

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Civilians caught in indiscriminate militia crossfire in Tripoli battle: Amnesty International
Oct 22 Sami Zaptia

Civilians caught in indiscriminate militia crossfire in Tripoli battle: Amnesty International

By Sami Zaptia. London, 22 October 2019:Warring parties in the ongoing battle for Tripoli have killed and maimed scores of civilians by launching indi...

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EU consciously complicit in migrant torture claims Amnesty International
Dec 12 Michel Cousins

EU consciously complicit in migrant torture claims Amnesty International

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 12 December 2017:Amnesty International has accused European governments of being “knowingly complicit” in the torture...

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