Following mobilisation of forces around Tripoli, UNSMIL calls for peaceful dialogue and de-escalation: report and analysis
Aug 31 Sami Zaptia

Following mobilisation of forces around Tripoli, UNSMIL calls for peaceful dialogue and de-escalation: report and analysis

Following the mobilisation of forces and heavy weapons around Tripoli over the last three days, in a statement issued yesterday, UNSMIL called for pea...

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444th Brigade and Military Intelligence head Mahmoud Hamza’s narrative of the SDF / RADA Tripoli clash
May 15 Sami Zaptia

444th Brigade and Military Intelligence head Mahmoud Hamza’s narrative of the SDF / RADA Tripoli clash

Writing on his personal Facebook page yesterday, and not on his official 444th Combat Brigade page, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, Commander of the 444t...

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UNSMIL concerned by weekend Benghazi armed clashes and communications blackout
Oct 9 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL concerned by weekend Benghazi armed clashes and communications blackout

The United Nations Support Mission (UNSMIL) in Libya expressed its concern in a statement today about the armed clashes in Benghazi over the last few...

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Twenty-three dead and 106 injured in Tripoli’s security forces clashes
Aug 16 Sami Zaptia

Twenty-three dead and 106 injured in Tripoli’s security forces clashes

The Emergency Medicine and Support Centre’s (EMSC) preliminary report yesterday stated that Tripoli’s armed clashes have so far resulted in 27 deaths...

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Use of force, in face of Aldabaiba using force to prevent peaceful handover of power, is justified
Jul 28 Sami Zaptia

Use of force, in face of Aldabaiba using force to prevent peaceful handover of power, is justified

The use of force is likely and justifiable in resolving Libya’s political crisis in view of the fact that current incumbent caretaker prime minister A...

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Bengdara installed into NOC Tripoli headquarters as new chairman
Jul 15 Sami Zaptia

Bengdara installed into NOC Tripoli headquarters as new chairman

Farhat Bengdara was installed into the National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) Tripoli headquarters yesterday as its new chairman.According to the NOC’s offi...

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UNSMIL seriously concerned by Janzour militia clashes
May 16 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL seriously concerned by Janzour militia clashes

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed its serious concern today about the armed clashes yesterday, that involved indiscrimina...

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NOC confirms damage initially to 29 sites in Zawia refinery from militia clashes
Apr 24 Sami Zaptia

NOC confirms damage initially to 29 sites in Zawia refinery from militia clashes

Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed yesterday that several locations in Zawia refinery were subjected to ‘‘varying damage’’ due to...

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Oct 27 Sami Zaptia

NOC condemns militia skirmishes damaging Zawia Oil refinery

By Sami Zaptia.(Logo: NOC).Tripoli, 27 October 2021: The National Oil Corporation (NOC) yesterday condemned the acts of sabotage that took place at th...

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Nov 25 Sami Zaptia

U.S. Embassy offers support to NOC after militias attempt to storm it

By Sami Zaptia.London, 25 November 2020: The U.S. Embassy to Tripoli reiterated yesterday U.S. support for the National Oil Corporation (NOC) ‘‘as it...

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