Libyan food prices increased in February by 5 percent: WFP Report
Apr 1 Sami Zaptia

Libyan food prices increased in February by 5 percent: WFP Report

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) report, Libya Market Price Monitoring – February 2026, published last Monday 30 March, says food prices increased...

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Tripoli Chamber of Commerce calls for urgent meeting today to discuss Libya’s spiralling economic crisis
Feb 26 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli Chamber of Commerce calls for urgent meeting today to discuss Libya’s spiralling economic crisis

Tripoli Chamber of Commerce called yesterday on all its members to attend an urgent meeting to be held today at its Tripoli headquarters to discuss Li...

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Aldabaiba defends his government’s economic and spending policy – accuses CBL, Attorney General, Hafter and Saleh of causing the problems
Apr 9 Sami Zaptia

Aldabaiba defends his government’s economic and spending policy – accuses CBL, Attorney General, Hafter and Saleh of causing the problems

During the First Ordinary Cabinet Meeting for 2025 held yesterday in Tripoli at the Victory Forest Halls Complex (Rixos Complex), Tripoli based Libyan...

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Jul 9 Sami Zaptia

CBL to continue with agreed economic reforms

By Sami Zaptia.(Logo: Tripoli CBL).London, 9 July 2018:The Tripoli Central Bank of Libya said that despite the recent ‘‘financial developments and cir...

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Libya’s revenues, oil production and foreign reserves down, deficit up: Audit Bureau 2016 Annual Report
May 1 Sami Zaptia

Libya’s revenues, oil production and foreign reserves down, deficit up: Audit Bureau 2016 Annual Report

By Sami Zaptia.The Tripoli-based Audit Bureau says in its 2016 Annual Report that Libya recorded its lowest state revenues in 2016 - the lowest in  it...

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Apr 14 Sami Zaptia

CBL Governor Elkaber accuses six previous Libyan governments of useless economic policies and of scapegoating the CBL

By Sami Zaptia.London, 14 April 2017:In an unprecedented attack on all the previous six governments he had served with, Tripoli-based Central Bank of...

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Private sector investment needed to diversify economy, reduce corruption and burden on state:
Feb 8 Sami Zaptia

Private sector investment needed to diversify economy, reduce corruption and burden on state:

By Sami Zaptia.London, 8 February 2017: Libya’s current economic crisis is caused by the distortion of its economy as a result of the fact that Libya...

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