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Film showing tonight: Masquerades

Film showing tonight: Masquerades

Tripoli, 18 May 2013: An award-winning Algerian comedy, depicting the strong role women play behind the scenes in society, will be shown at the Art House tonight. Starring…

Shuwail resignation rejected by Prime Minister

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 17 May 2013: Interior Minister Ashour Shuwail handed in his resignation ten days ago, but Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has refused to accept it.…

Vigil in Misrata after discovery of mass grave

Tripoli, 17 May 2013: Civil society organisations in Misrata held a vigil this evening for those who died during the revolution, following the discovery of a mass grave…

New Polish ambassador presents credentials

New Polish ambassador presents credentials

By Ahmed Elumami    Tripoli, 16 May 2013: Poland’s new ambassador Piotr Ciecwierz has presented his credentials to GNC president Mohamed Magarief. Ciecwierz , a fluent Arabic speaker…

Sabratha checked for earthquake damage

Sabratha checked for earthquake damage

By Tom Westcott. Tripoli, 16 May 2013: A team from the Department of Antiquities today visited the ancient Roman site of Sabratha to see if any damage was…

Libya and Italy to boost tourism ties

Libya and Italy to boost tourism ties

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 16 May 2013: The complex process of issuing of visas for travel between Libya and Italy may be simplified as a result of talks…

Ghibli disrupts Tripoli flight schedules

Ghibli disrupts Tripoli flight schedules

By Tom Westcott and Seraj Essul. Tripoli, 16 May 2013: At least ten flights to and from Tripoli International Airport were cancelled today because of bad weather. A…

Water set to return to all Tripoli today – power cuts continue

Water set to return to all Tripoli today – power cuts continue

By Sami Zaptia    Tripoli, 16 May 2013: The Great Man-made River Western Region authority announced that water has started to be pumped as normal to Tripoli from…

Tawerghans say mass grave bodies mis-identified, demand neutral investigation

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 16 may 2013: Exhumed bodies found in a mass grave discovered earlier this week are not civilians from Misrata but are people from Tawergha, the…

Sirte Local Council disburses LD 10.5 m compensation for war damaged property

Tripoli, 16 May 2013: Sirte Local Council’s Finance Committee, in charge of compensations, started today the distribution of financial compensation by handing-out 556 bank cheques at an estimated…

Head of Arab League confirms support for government

Head of Arab League confirms support for government

Tripoli, 16 May 2013: The Arab League says it fully supports the government of  Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Speaking yesterday at a meeting with Libya’s new Ambassador to the…

Psychosocial Support course finishes at Tripoli University

Psychosocial Support course finishes at Tripoli University

Tripoli, 16 May 2105: An eight-month course enabling healthcare, education and social specialists to better understand the requirements of those suffering from psychological and other traumas resulting from the…

Libya is Safe: GNC deputy

Libya is Safe: GNC deputy

By Seraj Essul and Tom Westcott. Tripoli, 15 May 2013: Despite the recent unrest in Tripoli and Benghazi, the Deputy President of the GNC, Juma Ateega, said today…

Mass grave unearthed at Tawergha

Mass grave unearthed at Tawergha

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 15 May 2013: A mass grave site with up to 25 bodies has been found in Tawergha,  west of Misrata. Misrata prosecutors were able…

Rumours of RPG attack on Mangoush HQ denied

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 15 May 2013: Rumours that the headquarters of the General Chief of Staff, Major-General Yousef Mangoush, sustained an attack by a rocket propelled grenade…

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Libya Build opens Sunday, Prime Minister to attend

Tripoli, 17 May 2013: Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and the Minister of Economy, Mustafa Abofunas,…

Greek companies ready to resume work

By Seraj Essul. Tripoli, 17 May 2013: Greek companies are now looking to return to…

Turkish trade mission for Tripoli and Benghazi

Tripoli, 17 May, 2103: A 20-man Turkish business delegation will be in Libya from 19…

Over 100 Turkish companies at Libya Build, over 25 on waiting list

Over 100 Turkish companies at Libya Build, over 25 on waiting list

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 15 May 2013: Libya Build 2013, slated to be the biggest…

Fourth disruption to Zueitina export terminal over jobs demand

Fourth disruption to Zueitina export terminal over jobs demand

By Nigel Ash. Tripoli, 15 May 2013: For the fourth time since November, protestors have…

LD 50 billion needed investment in Libya’s hydrocarbon sector – NOC head Nuri Berruien

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 14 May 2013: A conference was held at the Radisson hotel…

The big build-up to Libya Build

The big build-up to Libya Build

Tripoli, 13 May 2013: Preparations for the largest ever Libya Build exhibition have been underway…

Malta Enterprise leads 13 companies at Libya Build 2013

Malta Enterprise leads 13 companies at Libya Build 2013

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 13 May 2013: Malta Enterprise will be leading 13 companies to…

Breakthrough housing deal agreed by Government and Chinese company

Breakthrough housing deal agreed by Government and Chinese company

By Ayman Azmain. Benghazi, 12 May 2013: The Ministry of Housing and the Beijing-based China…

ASEAN ambassadors in Benghazi

ASEAN ambassadors in Benghazi

By Ayman Amzein. Benghazi, 12 May 2013: Benghazi is looking to build up business ties…

Benghazi Economic Council launched

Benghazi, May 11 2013: A new advisory body focusing on economic issues in Benghazi was…

Italy’s Marche region with largest delegation at the Italian Pavilion in Libya Build 2013

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 11 May 2013: After the successful participation of last year, a…

LBBC postpones Libya mission

By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 11 May 2013: The Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) has postponed…

Libya investment conference in London postponed because of crisis

Tripoli, 10 May 2013: The FDI conference due to take place in London on 29-30…

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International women gather in Tripoli’s Old Town

International women gather in Tripoli’s Old Town

By Reem Tombokti. Tripoli, 17 May 2013: The fourth International Women in Libya (IWil) event saw more than 50 women from Libya and around the globe gather in…

Almadar communication tower falls killing child

Almadar communication tower falls killing child

By Nihal Zaroug. Tripoli, 16 May 2013: Maintenance work in the town of Reyaina yesterday ended in tragedy, after a communication tower belonging to mobile operator Almadar Aljadid…

Yet another police station attacked in Benghazi

Yet another police station attacked in Benghazi

By Ayman Amzain. Benghazi, 12 May 2013: Yet another bomb exploded outside a Benghazi police station today, this time in Gwarsha district.  The device was small, no one…

Another bomb in Benghazi

Another bomb in Benghazi

Benghazi, 11 May 2013: Twenty cars were destroyed last night when a bomb was thrown into a car sales ground in Benghazi’s Al-Nahar Street. The reasons for the attack,…

Derna intelligence officer murdered

Tripoli, 11 May 2013: Maziq Ali Maziq Mliti, who previously worked at the Interior Security Office in Derna during the Qaddafi era, was murdered there late last night.…

Tripoli house collapses killing 5

Tripoli house collapses killing 5

By Michel Cousins and Mathieu Galtier. Tripoli, 10 may 2013: Part of a house collapsed in downtown Tripoli early this morning killing five of its 17 occupants. The…

Benghazi registrar apologises to women protestors

By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab. Tripoli, 7 May  2013: Benghazi’s Public registrar, Yousef Abdurrahim Qarqum, has apologised to women who he said had been abused and illtreated by staff when…

Opinion

Opinion: My 2 Cents: Libya’s Financial Sector

By Hafed Al-Ghwell. Washington DC, 13 May 2013: One of the undisputed features of the oil-based Libyan economy over the past half…

Opinion: What the World Needs to Know About Libya

By Donna Hicks.   Cambridge, MA, USA, 12 May 2013: A remarkable event took place in Tripoli last week – the first…

Opinion: To Isolate or Not to Isolate – that is the question.

By Niz Ben-Essa Tripoli, 12 May 2013: Over the last few days I’ve found people constantly asking me about the Isolation…

 
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Libyan arrested in Tunisia trying to smuggle in explosives

Tripoli, 10 MAy 2013: It has been reported in Tunisia that a Libyan man was arrested on Wednesday trying to smuggle in 150 kilos of TNT explosives…

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