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Libya

Misrata Free Zone signs multiple port management agreements, most recently with Yildirim

After receiving an offer from Albayrak, the Misrata Free Zone - the main maritime entry into the Libyan market - has signed an agreement with another Turkish industrial leader Yildirim.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 08.07.2021

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UNSMIL chief Jan Kubis seeks security affairs deputy

Jan Kubis, UN Special Envoy for Libya. © Kay Nietfeld/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Subscribers only Diplomacy 07.07.2021

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One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

Ali Mahmoud Hassan, head of the LIA. © lia.ly

Subscribers only Politics 02.07.2021

Frontex plans to fly surveillance balloons over southern Mediterranean

After testing two CNIM aerostats in the Aegean Sea, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency plans to deploy this surveillance equipment in North Africa to counter migratory flows.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 02.07.2021

Haftar and Gaddafi's spy chief meet secretly in Cairo

Khalifa Haftar, who divides his time between Dubai and Cairo, has been holding numerous meetings with diplomats and top intelligence officers. In mid-June he talked at length with Abu Zaid Dorda, who served as Muammar Gaddafi's spy chief.

Subscribers only Politics 02.07.2021

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NOC boss Sanalla may be on way out as Libya's oil industry booms

Mustafa Sanalla, Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corp (NOC). © Christian Bruna/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2021

How Haftar resurrected his three Super Pumas

Delivered in 2019 by Lancaster 6, the firm owned by the Australian pilot Christiaan Durrant, the three Super Pumas of Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army had been confined for two years to their hangars before miraculously emerging last month to take their maiden flight.

Subscribers only Business 01.07.2021

Libyan National Army Super Puma helicopters during the parade on 28 May 2021.

Rome to renovate third and last Libyan patrol boat in dry dock in Bizerte

The Italian interior ministry will channel EU funds into the rehabilitation of a Libyan coast guard vessel it pledged to renovate in 2017. The boat is to be in shipshape and the crew trained within a year.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 29.06.2021

General Dynamics still chasing payment for Khamis Gaddafi's tank contract

The US defence giant, which cut short a major contract to supply equipment to an armoured brigade headed by Muammar Gaddafi's son, Khamis, in 2011, is looking to recover its contractual guarantees. It has just won a new round in its battle with the Libyan state before the British Supreme Court.

Free access Defence, Business 29.06.2021

French ambassador's real move to Tripoli set for early July

France's Libyan embassy, headed by Béatrice Le Fraper du Hellen, will in early July move definitively from Tunis to Tripoli.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.06.2021

After Berlin and London, Dabaiba expected in Rabat on 27 June

After a trip to London on 25 June and an afternoon meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson, the Libyan prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba will fly to Rabat for his first official visit there since taking up his post in March.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 25.06.2021

Libya's Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba.

Gaddafi's 'Air Force One' lands on home turf as EACS nears a crash

The company that manages the government's fleet of planes has brought home the late Muammar Gaddafi's VIP A340 at last. But its CEO, Abderrahman Shawish, has been put out of a job and the Audit Bureau is breathing down its neck over an irregular sale of Antonov-124 engines.

Subscribers only Business 24.06.2021

Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba welcoming the Airbus A340

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Dabaiba takes asset hunt under his wing - to protect family

Libya's prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba has taken control of LARMO, the office charged with tracing millions of dollars worth of assets embezzled under Gaddafi's rule. The investigation points to state bodies LIDCO and ODAC, headed at the time by Dabaiba himself and his cousin Ali Ibrahim Dabaiba.

Subscribers only Business 23.06.2021

Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba.

Dabaiba and Haftar approach second round of Berlin peace summit with very different agendas

Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba wants to push for a postponement of the 24 December presidential and legislative elections to which other senior officials are also putting up road blocks even as potential candidate Khalifa Haftar readies for battle.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 22.06.2021

Italy seeks to build bridges with el-Menfi ahead of second Berlin conference

As tension rises in the run-up to the second Berlin conference, Italy is taking steps to secure a better footing with Libya's two main eastern representatives, Mohamed el-Menfi and Aguila Salah Issa, awaiting the arrival of its consul in Benghazi.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 21.06.2021

The head of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohamed el-Menfi.

Frontex's Mediterranean expenses shoot up as fast as its spy planes

The European agency will spend €150m to monitor the North African coast by plane and drone. Canada's PAL and the British Alto want to join existing providers CAE, DEA and EASP Air. The missions could extend to the Atlantic or even mainland Africa.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 16.06.2021

Haftar-backing presidential candidate Aref Ali Nayed due in Paris this month

Aref Ali Nayed, who is running in December's presidential poll, will be in Paris on 25 June.

Subscribers only Politics 16.06.2021

Declared presidential candidate Aref ali Nayed.

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Total has eyes fixed on Hess's Waha concession

French major Total is currently in advanced negotiations with the US oil company over its Libyan concession, but Tripoli could yet scupper the process. CEO Pouyanné is aiming for other concessions in Libya, home to Africa's largest oil reserves and where oil is very light.

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.2021

Havas quietly assists as Fathi Bachagha tours Europe ahead of presidential poll

The former interior minister, who is running in December's election, is visiting several European capitals to drum up support. Paris-based PR firm Havas is helping out.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 14.06.2021

Former Libyan Minister of the Interior Fathi Bachagha.

EU to beef up border mission to stem migration

Europe is busy working on a new migration management roadmap, on which Libya features prominently. The EU Border Assistance Mission there is set to be expanded and prolonged, especially in the south of the country.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.06.2021

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Kosovar McCroft eyes Libya's other black gold - cigarettes

McCroft-Premium Tobacco Group, owned by a major political player in Kosovo, is looking for distributors in Libya, despite the market being saturated with fakes.

Subscribers only Business 10.06.2021

Libya loses appeal against $50m Cengiz award

Turkish public works firm Cengiz managed to scupper the Libyan state's legal attempt to annul a €50m fine related to contracts made in 2008 and 2009 but the Tripoli government still has room for further appeal.

Subscribers only Business 08.06.2021

In Paris, Abdelhamid Dabaiba talks hospitals, debt and reconstruction

The Libyan prime minister has asked the French group Denos to once again take over the running of the Benghazi Medical Center, but an old debt has complicated the plan. Airbus, Bolloré and Idemia are meanwhile trying to revive the contracts promised by previous Libyan governments.

Subscribers only Business 07.06.2021

Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba (right) and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on June 1, 2021.

Bachagha pulls off media coup against Dabaiba in Paris

The Libyan prime minister has fallen into a media ambush in Paris orchestrated by the former interior minister, who is already on the presidential campaign trail.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.06.2021

The head of the Libyan government Abdelhamid Dabaiba is received by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace.

London to step up pressure on Russian and Turkish paramilitary outfits to withdraw from Libya

The British Foreign Office is planning to organise a major conference on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of armed groups active in Libya.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 03.06.2021

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Misrata Free Zone signs multiple port management agreements, most recently with Yildirim

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Frontex plans to fly surveillance balloons over southern Mediterranean

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NOC boss Sanalla may be on way out as Libya's oil industry booms

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Spotlight One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

Frontex plans to fly surveillance balloons over southern Mediterranean

Haftar and Gaddafi's spy chief meet secretly in Cairo

Spotlight NOC boss Sanalla may be on way out as Libya's oil industry booms

How Haftar resurrected his three Super Pumas

Rome to renovate third and last Libyan patrol boat in dry dock in Bizerte

General Dynamics still chasing payment for Khamis Gaddafi's tank contract

French ambassador's real move to Tripoli set for early July

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Spotlight Dabaiba takes asset hunt under his wing - to protect family

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Frontex's Mediterranean expenses shoot up as fast as its spy planes

Haftar-backing presidential candidate Aref Ali Nayed due in Paris this month

Spotlight Total has eyes fixed on Hess's Waha concession

Havas quietly assists as Fathi Bachagha tours Europe ahead of presidential poll

EU to beef up border mission to stem migration

Spotlight Kosovar McCroft eyes Libya's other black gold - cigarettes

Libya loses appeal against $50m Cengiz award

In Paris, Abdelhamid Dabaiba talks hospitals, debt and reconstruction

Bachagha pulls off media coup against Dabaiba in Paris

London to step up pressure on Russian and Turkish paramilitary outfits to withdraw from Libya

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Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

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UNSMIL chief Jan Kubis seeks security affairs deputy

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NOC boss Sanalla may be on way out as Libya's oil industry booms

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Dabaiba takes asset hunt under his wing - to protect family

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Total has eyes fixed on Hess's Waha concession

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Kosovar McCroft eyes Libya's other black gold - cigarettes