The Attorney General’s Office announced on Wednesday that three members of a gang were arrested, pending trial, accused of attempting to defraud Jumhuria bank of LD 40 million. The gang had conspired to use fake cheques in its attempt to defraud a public company, but did not complete their criminal endeavour. Other members of the gang are being pursued. The Attorney General’s Office also confirmed that after initial questioning, members of the Tripoli Tower Jumhuria bank branch were released without charge.

- Advertisement -A Ghanaian man now based in Italy has shared his experience in the Libyan desert in search of greener pastures in Europe. According to the man identified as Tony Owusu, he left Ghana in 2014 in a bid to search for greener pastures outside the country and decided to visit Libya. Despite having a passport, the connection man got him fake papers so he could travel in trucks loaded with goods and that could get him to his destination. He continued that the journey by road to Libya wasn’t easy as they were met with various challenges including a shortage of food and water, as well as, the scorching heat from the sun. Watch the video below:He added that he had never seen good drivers like the ones in the desert helping people to enter Libya.

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UNESCO recognises Garba as humanity’s cultural heritage“Over the decades Garba has been an integral, multivalent component of Gujarati culture in India and among the Indian diaspora across the globe”, it said. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took the decision on Wednesday at its meeting in Kasane, Botswana to inscribe Garba on its ICHH list. “Intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalisation” and an understanding of it from different communities helps intercultural dialogue and mutual respect for other ways of life, UNESCO said. Garba is performed during nine days of the Navaratri festival that is dedicated to the worship of the feminine energy or Shakti, UNESCO said. The “visual expressions of this feminine energy are expressed through the Garba dance”, it added.

(Beirut) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya in September 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. With the conclusion of the mandate of the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya in March, no international investigative mechanism is functioning for Libya. Storm Daniel reached Libya on September 9, causing severe flooding the next day after two dams upstream from Derna collapsed. At 1:12 a.m., the Water Resources Ministry reassured residents under curfew that all dams in Derna had been inspected and were in good condition. Reconstruction and compensation efforts for those affected by the storm have been complicated by deep political divisions between the two governments, both of which established reconstruction funds for Derna and eastern Libya.

The Attorney General’s Office announced Sunday that four foreigners and a Libyan have been arrested for illegal gold prospecting in southern Libya. The four foreigners, from Niger, Chad and China, were also accused of illegally entering and residing in Libyan territory.

Swiss federal authorities indicated on Tuesday that they had returned to Libya a marble head of a young woman from the Hellenistic period, around 2,000 years old, discovered ten years ago in a warehouse in Geneva. It is an "archaeological vestige of great value" and an "exceptional testimony to Hellenistic expansion in North Africa ", according to a press release from the Federal Office of Culture. The sculpture was discovered in 2013 as part of an inspection in a customs warehouse in Geneva and was handed over to Bern on Tuesday by the director of the Federal Office of Culture at the Libyan embassy in Switzerland. Three years after its discovery, the Geneva public prosecutor's office decided to initiate proceedings, considering that the sculpture could have been found during "illicit excavations". However, the criminal proceedings did not make it possible to determine the precise place where the sculpture was discovered or how it arrived in Switzerland.

A total 145 irregular Bangladeshi citizens have returned home from Libya. A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying them landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed them. The IOM gave each of them pocket money of Tk 6500 and some food items. The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

A fresh batch of 145 irregular Bangladeshi citizens returned home from Libya on Wednesday by a chartered flight of Buraq Air, taking the total number of returnees to 398 so far. The Bangladeshis were in Benghazi detention centre, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Those who are in the detention centres of Libya will be brought back gradually. Another batch of 110 people was repatriated by a chartered flight on November 30.

On Monday, Akakus Oil Operations announced that it had completed drilling well B-50 NC-115 in a relative record time. Akakus added that 15 wells have been drilled from the beginning of January 2023 until now, with an estimated productivity of 25,000 barrels per day. The company said this achievement comes as part of the efforts made to improve the performance rates of drilling operations and maintenance of oil wells, achieving the target in the shortest possible time, and reducing the costs of drilling operations. Increasing oil production has proven challenging for LibyaIt will be recalled that Libya seeks to increase oil production from its current 1.2 to 1.3 million barrels per day to 2 million bpd, but in reality, has struggled to move beyond its current rate. Earlier this year, the state National Oil Corporation chairman, Farhat Bengdara, said Libya needs investments worth 4 billion dollars annually just to maintain its current volume of oil production, with the aim of modernizing the infrastructure and developing services in the oil fields.

Human rights activist Maria Pisani said the indictment of the three young men from the Ivory Coast and Guinea known as the El Hiblu 3, felt like a “kick to the stomach”. All they did was translate!” Pisani told MaltaToday. “They are political pawns, it’s absolutely devastating,” Pisani told MaltaToday. Pisani, who has followed proceedings closely over the past four years, was asked to describe their emotion following the indictment. “The Attorney General has taken more than four-and-a-half years to make the worst possible decision,” said Elisa De Pieri, the group’s regional researcher.

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Click to expand Image Rescue teams look for flash flood victims in the city of Derna, Libya, September 18, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Yousef Murad(Beirut) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya in September 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. With the conclusion of the mandate of the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya in March, no international investigative mechanism is functioning for Libya. Storm Daniel reached Libya on September 9, causing severe flooding the next day after two dams upstream from Derna collapsed. Reconstruction and compensation efforts for those affected by the storm have been complicated by deep political divisions between the two governments, both of which established reconstruction funds for Derna and eastern Libya.

NOC hopes to increase oil production by 100,000 bpd from the current 1.3 million bpd by the end of next year, Farhat Bengdara told Reuters at the COP28 climate summit. A bidding round for exploration blocks could include offshore and onshore blocks for both oil and gas, he said, though the number of blocks has yet to be decided. "I can't name names, but American companies, European companies, companies from the Far East." Foreign investment is necessary because the country's resources are limited, Bengdara said, adding that NOC was looking to make investment more attractive for foreign companies. (Reporting by Maha Eldahan and Yousef Saba Writing by Ahmed Elimam Editing by David Goodman)((Ahmed.Elimam@thomsonreuters.com;))The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

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