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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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GECOL engineers strike over electrocutions
Jan 1 Nigel Ash

GECOL engineers strike over electrocutions

By Jamal Adel. One of the two injured engineers awaiting evacuation (Photo: Electricity Ministry)Tripoli, 1 January 2014:GECOL engineers in Sebha have...

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Dec 15 Michel Cousins

Cable cuts disrupt east-west communications

By Ahmed Elumami.Tripoli, 15 December 2013:Mobile phone links between east and west Libya were severely curtailed today because of damage to both the...

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Running water - coming back to a tap near you
Sep 12 thomwestcott

Running water - coming back to a tap near you

By Tom Westcott.Tripoli, 12 September 2013:Jubilant cries have been greeting the first sight of water dribbling out of taps across Tripoli today, as t...

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Sep 12 Michel Cousins

Tripoli residents express exasperation with politicians

By Aimen Eljali.Tripoli, 12 September, 2013:In a series of random interviews with members of the public in recent days, residents in the capital have...

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Water will be in Tripoli by Friday: Water Resources Minister Hinshir
Sep 11 Sami Zaptia

Water will be in Tripoli by Friday: Water Resources Minister Hinshir

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli residents fill empty bottles from a well outside a mosque today (Photo: Tom Westcott, Libya Herald)Tripoli, 11 September 2013:...

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Bottled water doubles in price as tanks run dry in Tripoli
Sep 5 thomwestcott

Bottled water doubles in price as tanks run dry in Tripoli

By Mariam Muttawa. Shopkeepers are hiking up the price of bottled water across the capital (Photo: Aimen Eljali)Tripoli, 5 September 2013:As water cut...

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Sirte power station attacked
Aug 11 thomwestcott

Sirte power station attacked

Tripoli, 11 August 2013:The main power station in Sirte was attacked early yesterday morning with a home-made ‘gelatina’ bomb.The centrally-located po...

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We cannot create miracles - Electricity Minister Muhairig
Jul 27 Sami Zaptia

We cannot create miracles - Electricity Minister Muhairig

By Sami Zaptia.Tripoli, 27 July 2013:“I think everybody knows what many have been calling the Electricity Minister”, opened Electricity Minister Ali M...

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Armed guard to patrol Man-Made River
Apr 21 thomwestcott

Armed guard to patrol Man-Made River

By Tom Westcott.Tripoli, 21 April 2013:The recently-established Ministry of Water Resources is to tackle the problem of illegal tapping of the Man-Mad...

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Apr 2 Nigel Ash

Water shortage hits Tarhuna

Tripoli, 2 April 2013:Urgent discussions have been under way today in Tarhuna in the face of growing water shortages.Members of the municipal council,...

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