PM Aldabaiba and Governor Issa discuss priority economic and financial issues
Aug 20 Sami Zaptia

PM Aldabaiba and Governor Issa discuss priority economic and financial issues

Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, and Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor Issa, discussed what the government described as...

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PM and CBL Governor agree need for public spending, economy and dinar exchange rate reforms
Apr 17 Sami Zaptia

PM and CBL Governor agree need for public spending, economy and dinar exchange rate reforms

Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Hamid Aldabaiba and the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Naji Issa, discussed during their meet...

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Aldabaiba calls on CBL to ensure full transparency in financial statements related to foreign exchange
Mar 13 Sami Zaptia

Aldabaiba calls on CBL to ensure full transparency in financial statements related to foreign exchange

‎In a widely leaked official letter to the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Naji Issa, the Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister, Abel Hamid...

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Attorney General heads top meeting on fuel barter and fuel smuggling
Jan 22 Sami Zaptia

Attorney General heads top meeting on fuel barter and fuel smuggling

The Attorney General held a meeting yesterday with the head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Naj...

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Government purchases must be made through official website as of 2024
Dec 16 Sami Zaptia

Government purchases must be made through official website as of 2024

Last Tuesday, the Tripoli based Libyan government reminded its ministries of their Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba’s Circular No. 18 of 2023 (dat...

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Khoms cabinet meeting: elections, grants, salaries, stalled projects and electricity
Mar 10 Sami Zaptia

Khoms cabinet meeting: elections, grants, salaries, stalled projects and electricity

The most prominent points made by Tripoli-based Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba at the Third Regular Cabinet Meeting for 2023 held yesterd...

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Libyan state spent LD 162 bn and not LD 127 bn as claimed: Husni Bey
Jan 18 Sami Zaptia

Libyan state spent LD 162 bn and not LD 127 bn as claimed: Husni Bey

Leading Libyan businessman Husni Bey told Libya Herald that the correct spending figure by the Libyan state in 2022 is LD 162 (US$ 32.4) billion and n...

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CBL data for 2022 represents the current account of the government at the CBL, nothing else: Leading businessman Husni Bey
Jan 9 Sami Zaptia

CBL data for 2022 represents the current account of the government at the CBL, nothing else: Leading businessman Husni Bey

Leading Libyan businessman Husni Bey said the data for 2022 issued by the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) on 4 January represents the cash flows of the go...

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CBL welcomes audit report and says it will pursue reunification
Jul 8 Sami Zaptia

CBL welcomes audit report and says it will pursue reunification

By Sami Zaptia.London, 8 July 2021:Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor Saddek El-Kaber welcomed the handing over of the CBL audit report and emphasiz...

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Jun 28 Sami Zaptia

Libya does not yet fully use internationally accepted accounting principles and Audit Bureau is not independent according to international standards: U.S. State Department report

By Sami Zaptia.(Photo: U.S. State Dept).London, 28 June 2021:The section in the U.S. State Department ‘‘2021 Fiscal Transparency Report’’ on Libya say...

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