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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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Four gang members detained, pending investigation, for torturing 10 kidnapped migrants to death – 164 others also tortured
Mar 25 Sami Zaptia

Four gang members detained, pending investigation, for torturing 10 kidnapped migrants to death – 164 others also tortured

‎The Attorney General’s Office reported yesterday that four defendants belonging to a network engaged in smuggling migrants and human trafficking in t...

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Transparency International ranks Libya seventh most corrupt country in 2015
Apr 22 Sami Zaptia

Transparency International ranks Libya seventh most corrupt country in 2015

By Sami Zaptia.London, 22 April 2016:Libya has scored 16 out of 100 and ranked a lowly 161st out of 168 in Transparency International’s latest 2015 Co...

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Aug 18 Michel Cousins

Somali lessons for Libya?

Dear Editor,I would like to pass a piece of advice to Libya in an attempt to share my experience from Somalia in the early 90s with the hope of advisi...

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Mar 20 thomwestcott

Coastguard rescues 348 migrants

By Taziz Hasairi.Tripoli, 20 March 2014:In two separate operations, Tripoli’s Naval Coastguard yesterday rescued 348 migrants trying to reach the shor...

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Dec 10 thomwestcott

Two migrant boats caught off Tripoli coast

Tripoli, 10 December 2013:The Libyan Coastguard last night seized two boats carrying a total of 175 migrants heading to Europe carrying.One boat had 9...

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Dec 5 thomwestcott

Southern farmers send dates to famine and flood-stricken neighbour countries

Tripoli, 5 December 2013:Humanitarian aid in the form of twenty tons of dates is being sent to Sudan and Somalia by farmers from Jalu in south of the...

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Abu Anas kidnap ship rescues Somali migrants
Oct 17 Nigel Ash

Abu Anas kidnap ship rescues Somali migrants

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 17 October 2013:The American warship to which Abu Anas was taken for interrogation after his kidnap in Tripoli on 5 October,...

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Jul 9 thomwestcott

A birth and three deaths on drifting migrant dinghy

By Tom Westcott and Reem Tombokti.Tripoli, 9 July 2013:A baby has been born on an overcrowded dinghy left drifting off the Libyan coast after its engi...

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Seven more asylum-seekers die in quest for better life
May 9 Nigel Ash

Seven more asylum-seekers die in quest for better life

Malta, 9 May: Seven Somali asylum-seekers have died whilst attempting to reach Malta from Libya by boat, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said.After...

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