The Federal Government on Tuesday evacuated 281 stranded Nigerians from Libya. The Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, Amb. He said 159 out of the returnees were freed from detention facilities across Libya, while the remaining 122 were stranded in the North African country. READ ALSO: FG evacuates another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians in LibyaHe added that the evacuees left the Tripoli International Airport, Libya on Tuesday and would arrive at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, the same day. Musa said: “The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) airlifted 122 stranded Nigerians on December 12, from Tripoli, Libya to Lagos aboard chartered flight No.UZ 189.

At the opening day of the Franco-Libyan Transport Forum being held at MEDEF’s Paris headquarters from 11 to 12 December, Ibrik Abdullah Moussa, Vice Chairman of Libyan Railroads welcomed participants to the event and introduced the Libyan railway project and its role as one of the strategic projects in Libya. These included French companies in engineering consulting, providing advice and technical support, managing strategic projects, as well as training and metro. AlstomRailroads Libya’s delegation then held a discussion session with French company Alstom, which in turn made a presentation to those attending the forum. A lengthy discussion took place about the railway and metro project in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata. Libyan Railroads said its delegation was well received and welcomed by the participants in the forum from both the Libyan and French sides with the call for continued Libyan-French communication, work and future cooperation in the various fields of transport.

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George W. Bush, for one, was handed a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy after 9/11, which he proceeded to squander during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Or, in the more concise foreign policy mantra of the age of Obama: “Don’t do stupid s–t.”The logical conclusion of this outlook was utter inaction. Due to the turmoil that followed Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, not much attention has been paid to the consequences of the Obama foreign policy. President Obama eventually did best himself to warn of “enormous consequences” if the Assad regime crossed his “red lines” on the use of chemical weapons. “I think he has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” judged former defense secretary and CIA chief Robert Gates.

Libya on Tuesday repatriated nearly 1,000 migrants from Egypt and Nigeria who had been staying in the North African country illegally, officials and AFP journalists said. The 664 Egyptians were to be taken by bus to the Emsaed border post with Egypt, nearly 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) east of Tripoli. Migrants seeking to make the perilous sea crossing to Europe from north Africa often fall into the hands of trafficking gangs that extort them for money. In similar operations last month, 600 Egyptians were sent home on November 6 and 250 were repatriated to Niger and Chad on November 28. According to International Organization for Migration figures, there were more than 700,000 migrants — mostly from Niger and Egypt — in Libya between May and June this year.

The draft of the text of the resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Tuesday, and seen by Arab News, closely reflected the vetoed Security Council resolution. To end this zero-sum war?”The US continued to justify its opposition to a ceasefire resolution by restating its belief that such a move would benefit only Hamas. Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil at the United Nations headquarters on December 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo courtesy: UN General Assembly)Ahead of the vote, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, called on the General Assembly to speak with one voice in condemnation of the militant group. The US used its power of veto in the Security Council last Friday to prevent the adoption of a ceasefire resolution during an urgent session called for by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

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Egypt's State Information Service (SIS) has praised the professional performance of international media correspondents covering the presidential elections in Egypt. In response to requests from international media correspondents, collective tours were organized for groups of journalists to visit polling stations and observe the voting process in various cities and governorates. The most recent tour, conducted on Sunday, covered polling stations in North Sinai, including El-Arish, Rafah, Bir al-Abd, and Sheikh Zuweid. This tour included 24 correspondents representing 17 American, European, Russian, Chinese, Arab, Japanese, and African media institutions, as well as one media organization from Bangladesh. They represent 14 foreign media institutions and visited the headquarters of the National Elections Authority to witness the election process and familiarize themselves with the operations inside the Central Operations Room.

DUBAI: Arab officials on Tuesday hit out at attempts to secure a phase-out of fossil fuels at COP28 as they met for a conference on regional energy cooperation in Doha. However, Kuwait’s oil minister dismissed the proposal as an “aggressive attack”, and accused Western nations of trying to dominate the global economy through alternative energy sources. Barrak called the move “completely unacceptable”, and added that he wondered on that basis how the negotiations at the climate conference “lasted this long”. In Doha, Iraq’s oil minister, Hayyan Abdul Ghani Al Sawad, said: “Fossil fuels will remain the major source of energy in the whole world. We cannot phase out the use of that energy.”He also took aim at nations that consume fossil fuels.

Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, officially launched Libya’s National Strategy for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency 2023-2035 at an event in Tripoli Monday. This strategy will contribute to organizing and developing programmes and projects related to renewable energies and reducing their consumption. Water heating programme using solar energy, which aims to save 1% of energy consumption. The fourth axis of the strategy concerns the main and supporting initiatives, which were based on energy-efficient lighting and heating water using solar energy. At the conclusion of the event, the Prime Minister launched the National Strategy for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency 2023-2035 and the start of work by the authorities related to the energy file.

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Emphasizing the reduction of gas flaring, the country aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030, supported by several initiatives led by Libya’s leading operators. By creating economic pathways to gas monetization, particularly for marginal fields in which gas flaring is a common practice, producers can capture more value from their resources, while eliminating a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Below are five noteworthy gas flaring reduction projects to watch. Mellitah Oil & Gas: Abu AttifelMellitah Oil & Gas, a joint venture between NOC and Eni, is committed to curbing flare gas emissions at its Abu Attifel onshore field. Arabian Gulf Oil Company: MeslaThe Arabian Gulf Oil Company has reactivated a dormant well on the Mesla field after 22 years.

The EU border agency and Malta's government have reportedly been providing a Libyan militia with invaluable help to drag refugees aboard boats back to Libya. The European Union's Frontex border agency and Malta's government have reportedly provided a brutal Libyan militia with coordinates to carry out 'pushbacks' of boats carrying refugees trying to reach Europe, according to a new investigative report. The TBZ boat was only able to find the boats and conduct the pullbacks thanks to coordinates received from Maltese and Frontex surveillance planes, the report said. The TBZ militia is a key part of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), which is led by Khalifa Haftar and rules over much of eastern and southern Libya. There have also been reports of torture and ill-treatment of refugees in detention camps run by militias linked to both Haftar militia and the internationally-recognised government in Tripoli.

The European Commission's self-declared policy of not doing any harm in Libya appears increasingly strained, following reports Frontex collaborated with the Tariq Bin Zeyad Brigade — a Libyan militia with ties to the Russian mercenary group Wagner. On Monday (11 December), the Brussels-executive skirted questions on how such collaboration adheres to its 'do no harm principle' when it comes to EU-funded operations in Libya. When pressed, a European Commission spokesperson demanded reporters field their questions to the Warsaw-based Frontex agency instead. Last year, Francisco Gaztelu Mezquiriz, a senior commission official, told European lawmakers that the European Commission had hired outside contractors to ensure its operations in Libya respects the do no harm policy. "So far, the contractor didn't report any violations of do no harm principle directly related to all costs by our trust fund programmes," he told European lawmakers.

Women – not welcome hereIn Libya, discriminatory legal, social, economic and political structures have long left many women feeling like second-class citizens. Now, cyberattacks have emerged as an additional form of violence against Libyan women, limiting their role in society and preventing them from participating in the drive to build a new society. Although a few women have managed to reach high-profile positions in the public and private sectors, Libyan women remain largely marginalised in the political sphere. Acutely aware that militias had previously killed several Libyan women known for taking a stance against extremism, the campaign shattered her mental health, she said. They say it does little to address the safety of women online.