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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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Op-Ed: International Women’s Day: Will Libya’s new government honour its women?
Mar 8 Sami Zaptia

Op-Ed: International Women’s Day: Will Libya’s new government honour its women?

By Amal Creui.8 March 2021:International Women’s Day on 8 March is a global day for celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievem...

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Op-Ed: Enough Tokenism: Its Time to Demand Meaningful Inclusion!
Mar 7 Sami Zaptia

Op-Ed: Enough Tokenism: Its Time to Demand Meaningful Inclusion!

By Hala Bugaighis.8 March 2021:It is 2021, but the women agenda in Libya seems to be ‒ more necessary than ever ‒ at a critical juncture. In a recentl...

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Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba's GNU: Not women friendly?
Feb 28 Sami Zaptia

Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba's GNU: Not women friendly?

By Sami Zaptia.London, 28 February 2021:Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, prime minister designate of the proposed Government of National Unity (GNU), came in fo...

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Oct 26 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL’s Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) participant list receiving criticism

By Sami Zaptia.London, 26 October 2020: The list of 75 people selected by UNSMIL to participate in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum has come in for...

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Transparency, not nationality is the problem with UN appointments, say women in the Arab region
Feb 12 Sami Zaptia

Transparency, not nationality is the problem with UN appointments, say women in the Arab region

By Sami Zaptia.London, 12 February 2017: A group of ten Arab women NGOs, including from Libya, have released a statement condemning the United States’...

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Half of all MPs should be female says HoR member
Nov 10 Nigel Ash

Half of all MPs should be female says HoR member

By Libya Herald reporters.Tunis, 10 November 2016Within 15 years, half of all Libya’s decision-makers should be women, a female member of the  House o...

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Women's "It will be our constitution" campaign launched with 50,000 SMS messages
Feb 17 Sami Zaptia

Women's "It will be our constitution" campaign launched with 50,000 SMS messages

By Sami Zaptia.Tripoli, 17 February 2014:The German ambassador Christian Much launched the women's "it will be our constitution" campaign by sending t...

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Libyan women want Women’s Supreme Council
Feb 11 Michel Cousins

Libyan women want Women’s Supreme Council

By Taziz Hasairi.Plans for a Women's Supreme Council discussed in Tripoli (Photo: Taziz Hasairi)Tripoli, 11 February 2014:Women activists in Tripoli h...

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Nov 12 thomwestcott

Registration closes for constitution committee candidates - 681 registered

By Ahmed Elumami.Tripoli, 12 November 2013:The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced yesterday that registration for candidates for the...

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Oct 27 thomwestcott

Amazigh stop oil tankers from docking at Mellitah terminal, threaten to close pipelines

By Ahmed Elumami.Tripoli, 27 October 2013:Some 80 armed Amazigh from Zuwara are preventing oil tankers from docking at the Mellitah oil terminal, and...

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