CAIRO – 9 August 2022: The Libyan News Agency reported Tuesday the arrival of the first EgyptAir flight to Mitiga airport, located in the capital Tripoli, after an eight-year hiatus. EgyptAir had declared Sunday the operation of temporary flights between Sharm El Sheikh International Airport and Mitiga airport until October 11 in order to transport Libyan tourist groups to and from the Egyptian resort town. On his side, President and CEO of GHS Aviation Group George Snyder valued the cooperation with EgyptAir, which began five years ago, and commended the company for implementing all previous recommendations. Snyder further noted that GHS' endorsement of EgyptAir's safety would bolster the confidence of insurance company in cooperating with the airline. EgyptAir celebrates on May 7 of every year with passengers by offering souvenirs, discounts, and launching an advertising campaign relevant to the event.

#KeepItOn In Libya: Authorities Must Ensure Internet Connectivity In Tobruk, Across NationControlling and restricting internet access violates human rights. “Authorities in Libya cannot use their power to assert dominance over freedom of speech and access to information across the country,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “Internet shutdowns are a new repressive tactic added to the authorities’ long list of human rights violations and attempts to restrict the internet in Libya,” said Marwa Fatafta, MENA Policy and Advocacy Manager at Access Now. Access Now and its partners call on authorities at all levels in Libya to guarantee access to the internet across the country. We will continue to monitor the situation in Libya and provide more information regarding the internet shutdowns documented in the country.

SoFi Technologies, a major provider of online personal financing services, announced it had launched a Web3-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) for cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and other emerging technology investments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based bank will use the new ETF to track its Solactive ARTIS Web3 Index, which targets non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, the Metaverse, and artificial intelligence and big data. Anthony Noto, Chief Executive of SoFi, said in a statement,“There is a clear interest from our members to invest in Web 3. The SoFI Web 3 ETF provides a diversified way to invest in blockchain and crypto without the single-entity risk of one coin or one company”The news comes just months after the HBAR Foundation opened a Metaverse Fund totalling $250 million USD to support its Hedera blockchain ecosystem. Numerous Metaverse ETFs have surfaced in recent months, namely Subversive, Roundhill Ball, ProShares Metaverse Theme, and others.

116 migrants have been disembarked back on Libyan shores in the period from 31 July to August 6, 2022, according to International Organization for Migration. So far in 2022, 12,063 migrants have been disembarked on Libyan shores, IOM said on Tuesday. It added that 195 migrants died and 710 went missing in the period from 1 Jan to 6 August, 2022 on the Central Mediterranean route. in 2021, 32,425 migrants were disembarked on Libyan shores, while 662 died and 891 went missing, the Organization added.

Unity Technologies has teamed up with Microsoft Azure to add the former’s Create Solutions to the Cloud, allowing users to distribute games across Windows and Microsoft Xbox systems. We believe that this cloud enablement will make it easy for creators around the world to collaborate seamlessly. The company’s Digital Twins solution also hosts real-time 3D assets and require point clouds, models, and others with high demands on local device resources. Serious gaming is a conceptualised strategy that aims to build the Metaverse with technologies from gaming firms, including cloud computing, RT3D content, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), networking, edge computing, and many others. Nextech AR, a Vancouver, Canada-based metaverse enterprise, also integrated Azure as a data hosting solution for its RT3D assets and digital twins for hybrid events, eCommerce, and other deployable, scalable uses.

Libya’s Ports Authority revealed last week that it is to construct new administration buildings across its port. It revealed that it had signed a LD 4.2 million turnkey construction contract on 26 July for the Tripoli Port administration building. Khoms Port administration building construction startsToday, the Ports Authority revealed that ‘‘an appendix to a contract was concluded for the establishment of an administrative building for the Al-Khoms seaport.’’Like the Tripoli Port project, the Khoms project will be a turnkey contract, delivered fully equipped and furnished. The Libyan Ports Authority confirmed that the contractor had received the Khoms site and started to implement the terms of the contract. More projects to be revealedAttaching a photograph of the building, the Libyan Ports Authority confirmed that the planned new administration buildings will be of the same design across all ports.

CAIRO - 9 August 2022: The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation implements a number of bilateral cooperation projects with the State of South Sudan. In this article, Egypt Today highlights these projects in light of the long history of cooperation between both countries in the field of water resources. In the following report, Egypt Today monitors cooperation projects with South Sudan:1- Six underground water stations were established in Juba city. 3- A lifting unit was established to transport rivers water to the population centers near the waterways in Wau city, Republic of South Sudan. 4- Technical and economic feasibility studies were prepared for the multi-purpose of Wau Dam project in South Sudan.

Libya’s new ambassador to Algeria, Saleh Himma, presented on Monday his credentials to Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, according to a statement by Algerian foreign ministry. During the meeting, both diplomats discussed the “relations and and cooperation between the two countries and peoples,” as per the ministry’s statement. They also discussed “the latest developments in the political and security situation in Libya, stressing the need to redouble and coordinate efforts to achieve the goal of building democratic institutions in light of a comprehensive Libyan reconciliation that ends differences and achieves security and stability”.

The trial opened Monday in Libya’s western city of Misrata of 56 suspected Islamic State group militants captured after the 2016 fall of its bastion Sirte. The 56 suspects, out of a total of 320 facing trial, appeared in court before the trial was adjourned to September 25, judicial sources said. The suspects appeared in the dock clad in blue prison overalls, some with their faces covered, in the crowded courtroom where dozens of the families had gathered. Fatima al-Tlisi told AFP that her son was “still a high school student when he joined the forces” and was killed fighting IS. Libya was plunged into over a decade of chaos and lawlessness following the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that led to the removal and killing of long timedictator Moamer Kadhafi.

Today, Deputy Presidential Council of Libya Abdullah Al-Lafi met with Acting Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya Risdon Zeninga. During the meeting, the parties discussed the latest developments in the political process in Libya, issues of common interest.

Birth rates in the United States are near record lows, but not for everyone. Under the surface of the fertility decline is a little-noticed fact: Births have declined much more among nonreligious Americans than among the devout. Rates of conversion into unfaith are too high, and fertility rates too low, to yield stable religious populations. Religious women who attended church less than weekly had lower fertility in all time periods but especially during the 2000s. Religious birth rates simply are not high enough to offset losses from the move to irreligion.

The team members also used a “breakaway model” when assembling the language family tree. In this scenario, at every split in the language tree, one of the populations stayed in the same place, while the other migrated, explained team member Remco Bouckaert. The study concluded that the Bantu expansion occurred about 4,000 years ago—long before a savanna corridor alongside the rainforest is thought to have opened up around 2,500 years ago. It had been previously thought that Bantu populations would not have been able to maintain their crops and cattle while migrating through dense rain forest. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The founder of a far-right Italian party and frontrunner to be the country's next leader has called for a blockade of Libya to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, wants the Italian navy to blockade the north African coast so that all migrants can be screened before leaving to ascertain whether they are genuine refugees. Those who can prove their refugee status should be allowed through, Meloni said, while those who cannot should be sent home. 'Meloni, do you know that under international law it is considered an act of war,' tweeted former house speaker Laura Boldrini. Aside from the naval blockade, Maloni has also proposed fines for NGO vessels rescuing migrants from the sea and bringing them to Italian reception centres.

The founder of a far-right Italian party and frontrunner to be the country’s next leader has called for a blockade of Libya to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean, according to British newspaper the Daily Mail. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, wants the Italian navy to blockade the north African coast so that all migrants can be screened before leaving to ascertain whether they are genuine refugees. Those who can prove their refugee status should be allowed through, Meloni said, while those who cannot should be sent home. Meloni, who counts the likes of Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini and former leader Silvio Berlusconi as her allies, made the comments at the weekend. ‘Meloni, do you know that under international law it is considered an act of war,’ tweeted former house speaker Laura Boldrini.

100 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 35 percent of the infection rate, according to a Monday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC). The center also said 204 have recovered during the same reporting period. The total recorded COVID-19 cases in Libya have exceeded more than 50,000 since the start of the pandemic, while over 490,000 of which have recovered, according to the NCDC. The virus has claimed the lives of 6,433 people. Over two million people received one dose of the vaccination, while more than one million others were vaccinated with two doses.