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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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12,338 migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya up to 12 July: IOM
Jul 17 Sami Zaptia

12,338 migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya up to 12 July: IOM

In its Libya Weekly Central Mediterranean Update published last Monday 14 July, the UN’s IOM reported that, up to 12 July, a total of 12,338 migrants...

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Oct 23 Sami Zaptia

Five Libyan illegal migrants missing at sea, 13 others rescued to Lampedusa

By Sami Zaptia.Five Libyans lost at sea illegally crossing the Mediterranean, another 13 were rescued to Lampedusa port (Photo: Mediterraneocronaca.it...

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Mar 29 Nigel Ash

Yet more migrants drown

By Libya Herald reporters. A semi-inflated raft from which migrants disappeared (File photo)Tunis, 29 March 2017:A 16 year-old Gambian boy appears to...

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Apr 30 Nigel Ash

At least 84 migrants drown in single tragedy

By Libya Herald reporters. Inflatables such as this are swamped and capsized is stormy seas (File photo) Tunis, 30 April 2016:The rough seas of the la...

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Mar 25 Nigel Ash

More dead migrants washed back to Libya

By Libya Herald reporters. Imported rubber rafts and dubious outboards take migrants out to sea (File photo) Tripoli, 25 March 2016:After a French min...

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Apr 5 Nigel Ash

Italians rescue 1,500 migrants in less than 24 hours

By Libya Herald reporters. A typical rickety over-crowded migrant boat (File photo)Tripoli, 5 April 2015:Italian coastguards have said that in the cou...

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196 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean in one week
Oct 4 Callum Paton

196 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean in one week

By Libya Herald staff. MOAS rescues migrants (Photo: MOAS) Tripoli, 4 October 2014: One hundred and ninety six migrants attempting to cross Mediterr...

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The Italian navy saves 360 more migrants
Oct 15 Nigel Ash

The Italian navy saves 360 more migrants

By Hadi Fornaji Tripoli, 15 October 2013: In a trio of rescues today, two dangerously overloaded inflatables carrying a total of 290 more migrants...

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Latest doomed migrant boat was from Zuara
Oct 12 Michel Cousins

Latest doomed migrant boat was from Zuara

By Hadi Fornji. Migrants being rescued after their boat sank in Maltese waters (Photo: Armed Forces of Malta)Tripoli, 12 October 2013:It has emerged t...

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Illegal immigrant boat from Misrata sinks off Lampedusa: hundreds feared drowned
Oct 3 Michel Cousins

Illegal immigrant boat from Misrata sinks off Lampedusa: hundreds feared drowned

By Libya Herald Staff.Tripoli, 3 October 2013:Italy was in shock today after hundreds of illegal African migrants drowned when the boat they had taken...

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