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Libya Partners With Total Energies To Build Solar Plants
Libya has initiated plans to construct a solar plant with the help of French multinational company Total Energies. Libya’s Minister for Oil and Gas, Mohamed Oun, announced the launch of the Libya Energy and Economy Summit in Tripoli. “We seek to encourage the investment of oil wealth, its good exploitation and development, and the increase…
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200 Nigerian, Niger Illegal Migrants Voluntarily Return Home from Libya
Libyan authorities in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration on Wednesday returned 91 voluntary illegal migrants to their country of origin, Niger, while another 162 Nigerian migrants returned voluntarily to their country, via Mitiga airport in the capital, Tripoli. This was stated by the head of the deportation department of illegal migrants at Misrata…
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NGO Reports Dehumanizing Detention Of Over 5000 Migrants In Libya
A human rights worker for the Norwegian Refugee Council has reported the detention of up to 5,000 refugees in Lybia since Friday, October 1, 2021. The allegations were made on Sunday, after a crackdown on Friday by the Libyan police force against migrants. “This is the largest crackdown on migrants in Libya that we’ve seen in…
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Libya Releases 120 Incarcerated Pro-Haftar Fighters
In what would be recognized as a move towards reconciliation in a UN-backed peace process, authorities in western Libya have freed 120 loyalists of warlord Khalifa Haftar. The fighters who were captured near the western city of Zawiya were fighting for the 107th Brigade under the command of Haftar. Abdallah al-Lafi, vice-president of the country’s…