CNN —A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic dynasty. Now, it’s finally set to return to Libya, where it was looted during British occupation in World War II, according to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The museum, which has held the piece since 1991, announced the planned return in a Wednesday news release. The statue then ended up at the Ptolemais Museum in Libya, which was destroyed during the British occupation of the area. The statue spent the decades between 1966 and 1991 in the private collection of New York art collectors Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman and was donated to the museum in 1991.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, received the Russian Deputy Defense Minister in his office at the Ar Rajma military base, near Benghazi, Junus-bek Yevkurov, and his delegation. For his part, the Russian deputy minister "underlined Russia's contribution to the development of the capabilities of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces in the areas of training and increasing efficiency, underlining joint cooperation in the fight against terrorism and extremism" . Yevkurov, arrived yesterday at Benina airport Benghazi, in eastern Libya, on his fifth visit to the country since last August. The latter, son of the "field marshal", had gone to Moscow at the beginning of the month where he had met, among others, the deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov. The Russian embassy in Libya, for its part, had defined the investigation as a "mixture of half-truths and lies" that would have been "manufactured by Western secret services".

The Security Council of United Nations decided to renew the measures relating to the implementation of the arms embargo imposed on Libya for a further year. Now, all member states are authorized to seize and dispose of prohibited items, such as weapons, in international waters off Libya. Member States may temporarily store confiscated items in a secure area before final disposal. The Security Council's decision comes after the latest report from the UN Panel of Experts on Libya monitored "continued violations of the arms embargo on Libya." On the contrary, the Russian representative to the Security Council, justifying her country's abstention, criticized the effectiveness of the European operation "Irini".

La National Oil Corporation Libya's (NOC) said yesterday, Friday, that its Al Waha subsidiary managed to increase its production by 40.000 barrels per day, from October 2022. The well was completed and tested with satisfactory results in excess of three thousand barrels. Noc is carrying out various projects to increase oil production in the country that is a member of the OPEC oil cartel from the current 1,2 million barrels per day to 1,4 million barrels per day by the end of 2024, and then rise to 2 million barrels during 2025. The field of which Eni is the operator extracts over XNUMX thousand barrels of oil of a quality low in sulfur and very easy to refine. The country, in fact, imported around 14,5 million tonnes of crude oil, down by 3,3, 2023 percent compared to the same period in 38.

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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Junus-bek Yevkurov, arrived today at Benina Airport in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on his fifth visit to the country since last August. Khaled Haftar, former commander of the NLA's 106th Brigade, has attracted attention for his rapid rise in the military. Since last summer, Khaled has been placed head of the NLA "Security Forces", a new entity that also includes the Khalid ibn al Walid Brigade, one of the strongest militias in eastern Libya. The same Russian official then returned to eastern Libya in October 2023, following devastating floods in the Derna region, to meet Haftar again. The Russian Deputy Defense Minister then made another visit to Benghazi last December, during which he met Haftar again, focusing on the modalities of joint cooperation, as reported by the Cyrenaica media.

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The American Chamber of Commerce in Libya (AmCham Libya) informed Libya Herald today that it is organizing a delegation of U.S. companies active in the oil & gas sector for a trade mission to Tripoli from 2 to 3 July. AmCham had previously organised an American company trade mission in Tripoli in 2021, and this is a follow up on that event. Libya’s commercial opportunities are significantDebbie Hirst, President of AmCham Libya said, “Libya contains Africa’s largest oil reserves, and is investing significantly to maintain existing infrastructure, develop new production, and achieve environmental goals, including a reduction in gas flaring. AmCham Libya is an independent affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Any companies who are interested in participating can reach out to AmCham Libya at [email protected].

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Bayt Ali Gana ("Ali Gana's House" in Arabic) finally opened this year, and seeks to offer both retrospection and hope in a country constantly threatened by violence and where arts and culture stand largely neglected. Once past a lush garden, visitors reach the museum's permanent exhibition of paintings, sculptures and sketches by the masterful Ali Gana. Set on a wall, an old shipping container houses an artist residency for "curators and museologists" whose skills are scarce in Libya, said Hadia Gana. During the unrest that began in 2011, Hadia Gana said she feared "losing everything if a rocket hit the house". Hadia Gana lamented that while museums should be educational spaces, "here in Libya, we don't have that notion yet".

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While excavating an ancient Greek palace in eastern Libya in the 1930s, an archaeologist dug up a large earthen storage jar, looked inside and spotted something unexpected — a 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, a dark volcanic stone. The two-foot-tall antiquity, most likely chiseled during ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Dynasty, was a rare find. Known as a striding male figure, it is one of only 33 statues like it known to exist, Egyptologists say. But it wasn’t long before thieves got ahold of the bearded figure and took it on an illicit odyssey that brought it, in 1991, to the Cleveland Museum of Art. On Wednesday, after curators had reviewed abundant proof that the item was stolen from Libya, including photos of it on display in the 1940s at a small museum near its discovery site, the museum agreed to transfer ownership to Libyan officials.