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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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May 30 Sami Zaptia

Massacre of 30 migrants in Mizda condemned

By Sami Zaptia.London, 30 May 2020:There has been condemnation of the massacre of 30 illegal migrants in the town of Mizda by the internationally reco...

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Video footage emerges of migrant torture
Jan 23 Sami Zaptia

Video footage emerges of migrant torture

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis, 22 January 2018:Videos showing the torture of migrant’s apparently in Libya have gone viral, drawing widespread conde...

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Libyan journalists slam Amnesty International's slavery post
Dec 5 Nigel Ash

Libyan journalists slam Amnesty International's slavery post

By Libya Herald reporters."You can buy two people for the price of a mobile phone in Libya" said Amnesty InternationalTunis, 5 December 2017:A group o...

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UN Security Council condemns reported slave trading in Libya as ICC says it may investigate allegations
Nov 28 Michel Cousins

UN Security Council condemns reported slave trading in Libya as ICC says it may investigate allegations

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih.New York, 28 November 2017:In a special session called by France to discus reported auctions of West Africans as slaves in Li...

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Migrant reception centres to be set up in Chad and Niger
May 22 Michel Cousins

Migrant reception centres to be set up in Chad and Niger

By Jamie Prentis.Tunis, 22 May 2017:Reception centres for migrants are to be set up in Chad and Niger in an effort to fight illegal immigration throug...

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IOM Learns of 'Slave Market' Conditions Endangering Migrants in North Africa
Apr 11 Nigel Ash

IOM Learns of 'Slave Market' Conditions Endangering Migrants in North Africa

Tunis, 11 April 2017:The following report is from the UN's International Organisation for Migration. Over the past weekend, IOM staff in Niger and Lib...

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People-smugglers murder migrants who feared rough seas: report
Mar 11 Nigel Ash

People-smugglers murder migrants who feared rough seas: report

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 11 March 2017:A people-smuggler once told this newspaper that he saw himself as being no different from an airline....

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Jan 29 Michel Cousins

German and Nigerian officials claim migrants being executed in Libya

By Alesssandra Bocchi.Tunis, 29 January 2017:Allegations of sub-Saharan migrants being killed, tortured, raped or otherwise abused in Libya have been...

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Op-Ed: Hate speech against migrants in media - Independent Libyan media is weak
Jan 26 Sami Zaptia

Op-Ed: Hate speech against migrants in media - Independent Libyan media is weak

By Sami Zaptia.Brussels, 26 January 2017: Within the framework of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations’ (UNAOC) #SpreadNoHate initiative and i...

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Over 600 migrants rescued off Libya: one dead and many missing
Nov 22 Sami Zaptia

Over 600 migrants rescued off Libya: one dead and many missing

By Sami Zaptia.London, 22 November 2016: Over 600 migrants were rescued off Libya’s Mediterranean coast between last night and this morning from sever...

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