Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC midfielder Richard Boadu played great on Thursday. He helped Al Ahly Benghazi win 3-0 against Al Tahaddi. Al Ahly Benghazi played against Al Tahaddi. At halftime, Al Ahly Benghazi was winning. Al Ahly Benghazi won comfortably.

The meeting of members of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State held in Tunis on 28 February with the declared intention of installing a new government in Tripoli represents a “unilateral initiative that could lead to disastrous consequences” in Libya. The United Nations envoy wrote it, Abdoulaye Bathily, in a letter addressed to the two chambers of the Libyan Parliament. The more time passes, the envoy concluded, addressing the members of the House and Senate, "the more you or other parties insist on remaining in your positions, the closer you will bring Libya to the abyss". These five actors should nominate three representatives who will have to sit at the same table to find a compact agreement on the so-called "unresolved issues". Read also other news on Nova NewsClick here and receive updates on WhatsAppFollow us on the social channels of Nova News on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram

Groups like UpRights and StraLi welcomed the “landmark” ruling, urging “Italy to comply with international human rights standards and end its complicity with violations of migrants’ rights.”The court caseThe case in question is a 2018 incident. A lower Italian court prosecuted the ship’s captain in 2021, finding him guilty of violating international humanitarian and refugee laws. Overall, Human Rights Watch estimates at least 25,313 people have died in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014. The verdict also holds legal relevance amid ongoing legal disputes between human rights organisations and the European government over ‘push-and pull-back’ operations. One such case was filed in 2017 in the European Court of Human Rights by the Global Legal Action Network, after reports emerged of survivors being sold, beaten, raped, and electrocuted.

The National Industry Promotion Authority (NIPA) to is hold a workshop on the packaging sector entitled ‘‘Challenges Facing the Packaging Sector in Libya’’. NIPA says this comes within the framework of promoting national industry and enhancing the quality and competitiveness of national products. The event is being held under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals and in cooperation with the Libyan Export Development Centre (LEPC). A meeting was held yesterday at the LEPC’s headquarters with members of the organising committee to deal with the latest developments in preparation for holding the workshop. The objectives and scientific topics of the workshop were also determined, and the day for holding the event was chosen.

The Libyan French Agriculture Forum was held last Tuesday (27 February) on the sidelines of the International Agricultural Exhibition in Paris, held from 24 February to 3 March. The Libyan General Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry represented Libya at the event. The exhibition, it reported, is considered one of the largest and most famous exhibitions in the field of agricultural products, livestock and food industries. It gave the General Union the opportunity to participate in it on behalf of Libya for the first time in its sixtieth session. In the forum, in the presence of interested parties from the French and Libyan sides, the agricultural situation in Libya was presented, and the need to create a partnership between Libyan and French companies to serve the agricultural sector in Libya, develop it, and benefit from the high experience that France has in this field, was discussed.

The Gaza health ministry condemned the "massacre" in Gaza City, saying 112 people were killed and more than 750 wounded. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry condemned the deaths and reiterated "the need to reach an immediate ceasefire". France's foreign ministry said "the fire by Israeli soldiers against civilians trying to access food is unjustifiable". Writing on the social media platform X that Palestinian "civilians have been targeted by Israeli soldiers", French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his "strongest condemnation" of the killings. "We strongly urge Israel to protect the people in Gaza and to rigorously ascertain facts and responsibilities," he said on X.

FILE - Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, by The Associated Press.

The government will be doing its utmost to strengthen commercial relations between Malta and Libya, Foreign Minister George Vella said today. He was speaking during a meeting with a delegation from the Matla-Libyan Chamber of Commerce. The meeting discussed several issues of interest to Maltese businesses in Libya and on how cooperation between the two countries could be increased for a bigger presence of Malta in Libya. Libya was now returning to stability and this should serve as an advantage for those who wanted to explore trade opportunities between the two countries. The Maltese government wanted to improve relations by addressing the difficulties that could come up, including those related to the issuing of visas.

Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council of State took note of the Central Bank’s warning against excessive spending by the Government of National Unity, calling for an investigation into the expenditures of the Tripoli-based government. This came in a a joint statement today following the conclusion of talks in Tunisia between over 100 members of both chambers. The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Saddek Elkaber, has accused GNU’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, unregulated massive spending, which he deemed to be detrimental to the financial sustainability of the state. In a letter addressed to Dbeibeh and published on last Tuesday, Elkaber criticized the pledges that the premier made to increase public salary and welfare grant, among other promises, during in a speech on 14th anniversary of the 2011 Libyan uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Recent developments in Libya's financial sector have sparked widespread concern among the country's business community. This move underscores deep-seated issues within Libya's banking and monetary policy framework, further exacerbated by the country's ongoing political instability. Libya's Gold Reserves and Financial StabilityAmid these monetary policy challenges, Libya's gold reserves have come under scrutiny. Recent audits have dispelled rumors of discrepancies in the nation's gold holdings, confirming that Libya's gold reserves stand steady at 146.65 tonnes. The standoff between Libya's business sector and its central bank underscores a broader crisis in the country's economic management and monetary policy.

By Alex LawlerLONDON, Feb 29 (Reuters) - OPEC oil output in February has risen, a Reuters survey found on Thursday, as a recovery in Libyan production from disruption offset the impact of voluntary cuts by other members agreed with the wider OPEC+ alliance. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped 26.42 million barrels per day (bpd) this month, up 90,000 bpd from January, the survey found. PRODN-TOTALThe biggest rise in production came from Libya, one of the OPEC members not required to restrain output, after the Sharara oilfield, one of the country's largest, restarted after being shut down due to unrest. Several members of OPEC+, which includes OPEC, Russia and other allies, made new cuts in January to counter economic weakness and increased supply outside the group. Some OPEC members pledged voluntary cuts in two rounds, in April 2023 and November 2023, and Saudi Arabia made an additional voluntary cut.

The Wagner Group has had a foothold in Libya since 2018. Resources for securityThe Wagner Group was founded in 2014. Since then, the Wagner Group has been assigned to Russia's military intelligence. However, Hager Ali has no hope that Libya could return to an electoral or demographic path as long as the Wagner Group is present. "The Wagner Group runs disinformation campaigns online," she said, adding that Wagner can interfere in the electoral preparations, intimidate voters through violence, and can even help rig elections.

Misrata Chamber of Commerce held a meeting today its headquarters headed by its chairman, Fathi Al-Amin Al-Turki with several Misrata city merchants and company owners affiliated with the Chamber to followed up on the latest developments regarding the statement the chamber issued on 26 February criticising Central Bank of Libya and the Tripoli Ministry of Economy policy. The statement had complained about what it called the unfair monetary policies of the Central Bank of Libya and the instability of the exchange rate, as well as the Ministry of Economy’s neglect of its responsibility towards economic policy and the monopoly of export and import for some companies, contributing to the instability of the exchange rate in the parallel (black) market. The statement had also threatened a general shutdown of businesses. Misrata Chamber said a committee has been formed to hold a meeting next Saturday regarding coordination and communication with the competent authorities to solve the problems and arrange a protest in front of the Central Bank to ‘‘escalate the situation’’. Concealed spat between Tripoli PM and Central Bank Governor goes public (libyaherald.com)Dinar crashes as oilfields are closed by Petroleum Facilities Guards seeking improved pay (libyaherald.com)

Commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, arrived in Tripoli today where he met the prime minister of the Government of National Unity (GUN) of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, with whom he had “fruitful and constructive” discussions on developments in Sudan, according to a statement by Dagalo via X. “I explained to Dbeibeh the reasons that led to the outbreak of the war and presented him with our strategy to stop the war, achieve peace and stability, alleviate the suffering of our people and rebuild Sudan on new and just foundations,” said Dagalo. “I also provided him with an explanation of the developments in the humanitarian situation and the difficult conditions faced by the Sudanese due to the deprivation of humanitarian aid, which has led to famine in some areas, which requires intervention to provide aid to those who they need it through new mechanisms and methods,” he added. Dagalo’s visit comes after he had a telephone conversation with Dabaiba last week, who invited him to visit Libya. The visit follows that carried out earlier this week, again in Tripoli, by the President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al Burhan.

The ill-considered expansion of the public expenditure over the past years, especially consumer consumption, which accounts for more than 95% of public spending. It is expected that it will exceed 61 billion dinars in the year 2023, including 41 billion dinars for fuel subsidies, which has grown remarkably and depletes approximately 8.5 billion dollars annually. Not to mention the other subsidy expenses directed directly to the electricity sector at a value of 40 billion dinars, bringing the total direct and indirect subsidy expenses to 102 billion dinars annually. Imbalance, distortion, and mismanagement in fuel subsidiesOne wonders how Chapter Four expenditures jumped from 20.8 billion dinars, including Hydrocarbon subsidies in 2021, to 61 billion dinars in 2022. This is especially considering the decline in the volume of expected revenues for 2024, to the level of 115 billion dinars according to the estimates of the National Oil Corporation, and 5 billion dinars in other sovereign revenues, with a total of 120 billion dinars.