The UN-proposed government's Presidential Council (PC) has issued a new order that divides the authorities and specialties of the Oil and Gas Ministry between the Prime Ministry and the National Oil Corporation (NOC). ----------------------------------------------------------The spokesman of the air emergency operations room, Mohammed Gunono, said the statement of the US Africa Command commander Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, who stated that IS terrorists are trying to regroup its forces in southern Sirte and that they are not fully eradicated, are relatively true as the air emergency operations room as well as Libyan air force are still working around the clock to get their jobs done. ----------------------------------------------------------UN-proposed government's Minister of Transportation, Milad Matoug, said they are working on reopening all of Libya's airports during 2017, adding that according tot he funding given by the Presidential Council, the ministry will concentrate on developing the airports infrastructure and the roads that connect cities within Libya. -----------------------------------------------------------The joint operations room in Zaltan intercepted 3 tracks coming from Jamil and Ragdaline towns loaded with 5000 liters of smuggled fuel after a tipoff by the phone informed them that the trucks were dubiously loaded with much fuel. It added that the truck drivers are frequent smugglers that smuggle Libyan fuel to Tunisia.

Source: Libya Observer March 27, 2017 14:15 UTC