Latest
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
Tag Archive

Hostage Crisis

1 / 4

May 21 Sami Zaptia

Freed Filipino hostages arrive in Manila via Abu Dhabi

By Sami Zaptia.London, 21 May 2019:The three freed Filipino hostages arrived in Manila on Saturday. The three engineers, who had been working on a des...

Read Article
South Korea sending warship to Libya to help free kidnapped citizen
Aug 2 Sami Zaptia

South Korea sending warship to Libya to help free kidnapped citizen

By Sami Zaptia.London, 2 August 2018:South Korea confirmed today that it is sending one of its warships to Libya to help release one of its kidnapped...

Read Article
Derna mujadineen confirm deaths of VOAS employees kidnapped by IS in 2015
Sep 22 Michel Cousins

Derna mujadineen confirm deaths of VOAS employees kidnapped by IS in 2015

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 22 September 2017:The Derna Mujahideen Shoura Council has said that five bodies it found in June 2015 after it managed...

Read Article
BREAKING: UNSMIL convoy ambushed near Zawia - 19 seized
Jun 28 Nigel Ash

BREAKING: UNSMIL convoy ambushed near Zawia - 19 seized

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis and Tripoli, 28 June 2017:A five-vehicle UNSMIL convoy was stopped this afternoon and UN officials and security guards...

Read Article
Nov 5 Michel Cousins

Italian and Canadian hostages freed in Ghat, fly to Italy

By Mustafa Khalifa.Ghat, 5 November 2016:Two Italians and a Canadian who were kidnapped in the far south-western border town of Ghat in September were...

Read Article
Sabratha: freed Italians say they are psychologically devastated
Mar 4 Nigel Ash

Sabratha: freed Italians say they are psychologically devastated

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 4 March 2016:The two Italian oil workers held by IS in Sabratha were free early today when local militia raided  a...

Read Article
Confusion over seized Tunisians and Sabrathan mayor
Oct 14 Nigel Ash

Confusion over seized Tunisians and Sabrathan mayor

Libya Herald reporters.Tunis and Tripoli, 14 October 2015:The fate of scores of Tunisian hostages and of the mayor of Sabratha, whose arrest in Tunis...

Read Article
One of two seized Sirte Indian medics is free: report
Sep 19 Nigel Ash

One of two seized Sirte Indian medics is free: report

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 19 September 2015:One of the two Indian medical staff seized at the Ibn Sina hospital in IS-occupied Sirte earlier...

Read Article
Daesh seizes three foreign "Christians"
Jul 17 Nigel Ash

Daesh seizes three foreign "Christians"

By Adam Ali.Daesh photo of Ghanaian hostage Sekyere, seemingly wearing an orange jumpsuitTripoli, 17 July 2015:Daesh has said that it has seized three...

Read Article
Jun 17 Michel Cousins

Three Tunisian consulate staff freed

By Libya Herald reporter.Tripoli, 17 June 2015:Three of the ten members of the Tunisian consulate staff kidnapped in Tripoli five days ago are reporte...

Read Article