Ports Authority to construct new turnkey admin buildings in Tripoli and Khoms ports
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 12:47 UTC
What you need to know about Egypt-South Sudan's bilateral cooperation in water resources
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 12:32 UTC
New Libyan Ambassador to Algeria submits credentials
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”.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 09:29 UTC
Libya: Dozens of suspects go on trial for alleged membership to IS
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 01:23 UTC
Libya.. UN meeting discusses latest developments in political process
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 01:11 UTC
Baby Blues: How to Face the Church’s Growing Fertility Crisis
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 09, 2022 01:01 UTC
Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 22:36 UTC
Italian navy should blockade Libya to stop migrants, PM hopeful says
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 21:54 UTC
Italian leadership nominee calls for blockade on Libya to stop migrants
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 12:59 UTC
100 new people test positive for Coronavirus in Libya
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.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 11:48 UTC
Italian PM hopeful: Blockade Libya to deter immigration
The founder of a far-right Italian party and the country’s likely future leader has called for a blockade of Libya to prevent migrants from crossing the Mediterranean. Meloni, who counts former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi among her supporters, made the remarks over the weekend. Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female leader after a September 25 election triggered by Draghi’s resignation as Prime Minister. Aside from the naval blockade, Maloni has suggested penalties for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who rescue migrants at sea and transport them to Italian receiving centers. Meloni presently leads surveys six weeks before Italians vote in an emergency election triggered by Draghi’s forced resignation as Prime Minister.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 10:47 UTC
another loss after Libya – Il Tempo
In Libya we no longer count for anything and in the coming months, under our total sinecure, the Balkans also risk exploding in a more destabilizing fratricidal war than that in Ukraine. If Draghi’s Italy has not taken up the concerns about the situation in the Balkans, how will Meloni’s Italy behave? In Trieste, once our gateway to the Balkans, the right, from the MSI to the National Alliance, was strong. Eni’s top management has influenced political choices for decades because a country thirsty for foreign energy like ours had to find new sources of supply, otherwise the economic and political structure of the entire nation would be maintained. If not, why has Eni not yet closed supply contracts with historical customers which include large utilities in Northern Italy?
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 04:20 UTC
77 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is time to proliferate peace
Seventy-seven years ago, nuclear weapons were dropped on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But even during the depths of the Cold War, nuclear powers made significant reductions in their nuclear arsenals. By the same token, countries with nuclear weapons must commit to the "no first use" of those weapons. They must also assure states that do not have nuclear weapons that they will not use -- or threaten to use -- nuclear weapons against them, and be transparent throughout. In the end, there is only one solution to the nuclear threat: not to have nuclear weapons at all.
Source:Libya Today
August 08, 2022 00:42 UTC
The UN recently declared a universal human right to a healthy, sustainable environment. Here’s where resolutions like this can lead
The UN recently declared a universal human right to a healthy, sustainable environment. The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on July 28, 2022, to declare the ability to live in “a clean, healthy and sustainable environment” a universal human right. The human right to waterVoluntary human rights declarations can also be instrumental in changing state policy and providing people with new political tools to demand better conditions. The human right to water is one of the strongest examples of how U.N. resolutions have been used to shape state policy. Enxet and Sanapaná Indigenous peoples of Paraguay protest in 2015 to demand land restitution and protection of their human rights.
Source:Libya Today
August 07, 2022 23:42 UTC
Sister of Haftar opposition activist kidnapped with her children in Benghazi
The sister of an activist critical of Khalifa Haftar has been kidnapped with her 20-day-old baby, as well as her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, her father Saeed Al-Farsi said on Saturday. Al-Farsi appeared in a video recording saying that the "Twenty" unit headed by Ali Al-Mashai -a militiaman of the Tariq bin Ziyad militia affiliated with Haftar- is responsible for the kidnapping of his daughter Nada and her children. The militia seized Nada to force her sister Nadin, who is an activist opposing Haftar, to close her Facebook account, which she used to expose the militias' violations, the father says. Earlier, the activist Nadine Al-Farsi published a phone recording of her with the militiaman Ali Al-Mashai, in which he threatened to kidnap her sister if Nadin did not close her Facebook page. Later, Nadin broadcast a video clip of her sister, Nada, after she was seized, while they were talking to her via a video call.
Source:Libya Observer
August 07, 2022 19:42 UTC