But the situation remains a complicated one for cultivators with agriculture experts agreeing the rains arrived “very, very late”. But with the sun and heat contributing to the growth of plants and vegetables, farmers also have to contend with a different reality that hits their pockets. Livestock farmers will be provided with an annual quota depending on the livestock units on the farm. Jeannette Borg insisted farmers are the last group of people to waste water. “It is also positive that farmers will get a free quota.”

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Libyan authorities on Friday released four members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas who were arrested in 2016 on charges including trafficking arms to Gaza, according to Libyan media. The four men — Marwan al-Ashqar, his son Baraa, Mouayad Abed and Nasib Choubeir — were detained in Tripoli in October 2016. Their release on Friday was reported by several Libyan media, which said that the men were freed at the request of the Libyan prosecutor’s office following Turkish mediation. Their reported release comes against the backdrop of a nearly eight-week-old war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas government in Gaza says Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed more than 15,000 people, also mostly civilians.

MORE than seven months into Sudan’s devastating war that has killed thousands and displaced millions, experts warn that the scarred and impoverished country faces the threat of breaking apart. Experts now warn the country could face a “Libya scenario”, in reference to the north African country long divided between two rival administrations in its east and west. “The rising tide of militarisation along ethnic and regional lines deepens social fissures in Sudan,” said Youssef. Meanwhile, the army-aligned government has been all but exiled to the eastern city of Port Sudan. Across Darfur, home to about a quarter of Sudan’s 48 million people, over 1.5 million have been internally displaced.

An illegal gold mining network, comprising Chinese, Chadian and Nigerian nationals, has been dismantled in southern Libya , local authorities have said in a statement. The network, led by a Libyan man, was mining four large sites in the southern desert, said the Tripoli attorney general, which posted photos of the mines and seized gold ingots on its Facebook page on Sunday. Two-thirds of the vast oil-rich country is desert and difficult to monitor, though gold mining is not thought to be widespread. The foreign nationals who carried out the mining were staying illegally in Libya, the attorney general said, without clarifying when they were arrested.

An illegal gold mining network, comprised of Chinese, Chadian, and Nigerien nationals, has been dismantled in southern Libya, local authorities have said in a statement. The network, led by a Libyan man, was mining four large sites in the southern desert, said the Tripoli attorney general, which posted photos of the mines and seized gold ingots on its Facebook page on Sunday. Two-thirds of the vast oil-rich country is desert and difficult to monitor, though gold mining is not thought to be widespread. The foreign nationals who carried out the mining were staying illegally in Libya, the attorney general said, without clarifying when they were arrested. This summer, the authorities dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency mining network on several sites in western Libya, arresting dozens of Chinese nationals.

Libya hosted the first national event of the European Union’s WestMED initiative last Thursday, the EU announced. The European Union Delegation to Libya and the Italian Embassy participated in the event. The WestMED Initiative was created to help public institutions, academia, local communities, small and medium-sized enterprises, and entrepreneurs from both shores of the Western Mediterranean develop local and regional maritime projects together. Commenting on Thursday’s event the EU said the Mediterranean unites us in many ways. Today, here in Libya, we celebrate our cooperation, our shared identity, our partnership, and our Mediterranean heritage.

In terms of solar power potential, Libya boasts approximately 3,200 annual brightness hours and an average radiation of 6 KWh per m2 per day. For reference, each km2 of desert in the country receives solar energy equivalent to 1.5 million barrels of crude oil annually. A 115 MW solar power plant in Tajura and a 100 MW solar power plant in Kufra are also in the construction phase. To facilitate renewable energy investments, the government has forged several agreements with global energy players. Notably, Libya’s vision for its renewable energy sector transcends its borders and aims to capitalize on its strategic position as the North African gateway to Europe.

And now the bank is spearheading the restructuring of the company’s Rs 10 billion overdue debt to the banking sector. The company started off by producing textile goods for the local market. As the case proceedings started, Latif still felt that his dream should not die. 9.5 billion debt was restructured for a period of 14 years. 1.7 billion was held by Habib bank followed by United bank held Rs 1.3 billion, Bank of Punjab held Rs.

It was first described in a scientific paper in 1933 and is known as Libyan desert glass. But none are as rich in silica as Libyan desert glass, nor are they found in such large lumps and quantities. One polymorph of ZrO2 that we observed in Libyan desert glass is called cubic zirconia – the kind seen in some jewellery as a synthetic replacement for diamonds. Such pressure and temperature conditions provided us with the proof for the meteorite impact origin of the glass. They are too far and too small to be considered the parental craters for such massive amounts of impact glass, all concentrated in one spot.

A total of 263 more undocumented Bangladeshi migrants, who were detained at a detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, will be repatriated to Bangladesh on December 5. Earlier, 143 and 110 Bangladeshi nationals returned here from Libya on November 28 and 30 respectively under the same process by chartered flight of Buraq Air. The Bangladeshi undocumented migrants were detained at the Ainjera detention centre in Tripoli. On behalf of the IOM, each one got Taka 5,896 as pocket money and food items. The efforts of the foreign ministry to repatriate irregular Bangladeshi from Libya will be continued, Alam said.

The Attorney General’s Office reported Thursday that the Acting Chairman of the Municipality of Benina and the Acting Financial Controller of the Municipality were detained pending trial for misappropriating LD 214,900 of municipality funds. The two are accused of deviation in the work of the Executive Council and of misappropriating public funds by deliberately falsifying data related to disbursing salaries to people who did not work in the municipality. They spent LD 214, 900 as rewards to people who do not hold public office. Thus, the investigator ended up ordering their detention pending the case.

The 2023-24 Libyan tree planting season was launched on Friday in northwestern Libya, the Libyan Environment and Climate Organisation announced. The annual drive comes as part of the initiative to plant 100 million trees across the country by 2030. The tree planting initiative comes within the two cooperation agreements between the Libyan Environment and Climate Organization and the Permanent Committee for Sustainable Development and secondly with the General Administration of Environmental Sanitation Affairs. The launch of the initiative to plant 100 million trees by 2030 was adopted by the Permanent Committee for Sustainable Development. Tree-planting campaign launched in Sirte (libyaherald.com)

Malta should do the right thing and drop the charges against the El Hiblu 3It is astonishing in a twisted way that a government that has championed civil rights so assiduously over the past 10 years is perpetrating such an injustice against three young men. This is nothing short of a bullying tactic against the most vulnerable of individuals

TRIPOLI, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Ahmed Zouiten, representative and head of mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Libya, confirmed on Saturday that WHO plans to work with the Libyan health authorities to fight against AIDS. Zouiten made his remarks during an event to mark World AIDS Day held in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with the participation of representatives of Libyan health authorities as well as several civil and international organizations. "Today, we renew our determination to work hand in hand with the ministry to reach all of our goals, including early detection and treatment, as well as health follow-up (of AIDS)," Zouiten said. "Next year, there will be tremendous work on this issue and we will reach the desired goals," Zouiten added. Due to years of armed conflict and political instability, Libyan authorities have been struggling to provide basic services for the people, including healthcare and education.