The prices of vegetables and fruits this evening witnessed a crazy rise in the local markets, coinciding with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. Our source witnessed the arrival of the price of hot peppers in some shops in the capital, Tripoli, to 20 dinars per kilo.
The price of a kilo of cucumbers rose to 12 dinars, tomatoes at 8 dinars per kilo, as well as the price of potatoes and onions to 4 dinars per kilo, while the price of eggplant and zucchini reached 6 dinars, a kilo of bananas reached 9 dinars, and the price of mint, dill and coriander rose to one dinar per bundle.
The head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, discussed with the Turkish ambassador to Libya, Kanaan Yilmaz, in a meeting today, Sunday, at the bureau’s headquarters in the capital, Tripoli, the contracts concluded with Turkish companies in Libya and the Bureau’s notes on them.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways to solve the problems and obstacles that prevent Turkish companies from resuming their tasks and completing their projects in Libya, in a way that contributes to activating and accelerating the movement of construction and companies fulfilling their obligations, while at the same time obtaining their full rights.
One of the traders of vegetables and fruits in the local market in Tripoli, called Ali, said that the price of pepper rose this Saturday morning.
Ali, who works in a market in the capital, Tripoli, added that the price of a kilo of pepper reached 12 dinars this morning, while its price has stabilized over the past days at 7 dinars.
The merchant also indicated that the reason for the high price of pepper is due to the high prices in the Sunday market
The Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Al-Huwaij met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marwan Al-Abbasi, on Friday, April 1, 2022, regarding aspects of cooperation between Libya in supporting and encouraging the private sector in the two countries and providing the necessary facilities for companies and businessmen.
The meeting also touched on raising and discussing the obstacles facing investors in the two countries and ways to facilitate financial procedures for the benefit of companies and local and foreign investors.
Al-Huwaij stressed the importance of cooperation and coordination between the two countries in supporting the private sector, as it is the real source of the national economy.
Also, he stressed working on creating direct communication channels with the aim of enhancing cooperation in the fields of economy and investment and providing the appropriate work environment for a long-term partnership that contributes to supporting and diversifying the national economy. The two parties also agreed on the possibility of placing special cards for businessmen.
The Minister of Economy and Trade in the National Unity Government, Mohamed Al-Huwaij, discussed yesterday, Friday, with the Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marwan Al-Abbasi, aspects of cooperation between Libya and Tunisia in supporting and encouraging the private sector in the two countries and providing the necessary facilities for companies and businessmen.
During their meeting, the two sides discussed the obstacles facing businessmen and investors in the two countries and ways to facilitate financial procedures for the benefit of companies and local and foreign investors. They also discussed the possibility of setting up special cards for businessmen so that they are treated with special treatment, as well as studying ways to protect the funds of Libyans in Tunisia and conduct fair reconciliation of the confiscated funds from Libyans after the February Revolution of 2011.
Al-Huwaij stressed the importance of cooperation and coordination between the two countries in supporting the private sector, as it is the real tributary of the national economy, and working to create direct channels of communication with the aim of enhancing cooperation in the economy and investment fields and providing the appropriate work environment for a long-term partnership that contributes to supporting and diversifying the national economy.
The Director of the Information and Communications Office of the General Secretariat of the Libyan Red Crescent, Hanan Al-Saiti, confirmed in a statement to our source the release of the civil activist and producer of the series « Shatt al-Hurriya » and the director of the Red Crescent’s Ajdabiya branch, Mansour Ati, this evening, after ten months of his detention.
Mansour Ati had been detained since the third of June last year, when unknown gunmen intercepted his car and taken him to an unknown location without specifying the identity of the kidnappers or the reason for his arrest, amid calls from several parties, led by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, to release him.
The Minister of Labor and Rehabilitation in the National Unity Government, Ali Al-Abed, said that the coalition of Egyptian companies will work to implement six projects in Libya that will be launched after the end of the blessed month of Ramadan, starting with the third ring project in the capital, Tripoli, by bringing in approximately 2,500 Egyptian workers in addition to 30 % Libyan labor as employment and 20% Libyan labor as training according to the law.
Al-Abed discussed, during his visit to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the past two days, the movement of manpower and the implementation of projects and programs launched by the Government of National Unity, stressing during his meeting with representatives of the coalition of Egyptian companies that were contracted to implement a number of infrastructure projects in the transportation and housing sectors, the mechanisms for the movement of Egyptian labor hands to Libya and ways to facilitate procedures for granting visas, transportation, residence and other details.
A “very positive” meeting was held in Tripoli between representatives of the Italian consortium Enes and the Minister of Transport in the Libyan National Unity Government, Mohammed Al-Shahoubi, in the presence of Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Buccino. Buccino said, in a tweet on his official account on Twitter, that the talks focused on « the expected resumption of reconstruction work at Tripoli International Airport. »
The international airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, was closed in the summer of 2014 after it was damaged in clashes between rival militias. The project cost is about 80 million euros to build two terminals, one national and the other international, with all airport facilities that allow the opening of this airport. The work assigned to the Italian Enes consortium was suspended several times due to the armed conflict that made the airport a front line from April 2019 to June 2020. The resumption of the project, for which letters of credit were obtained from the Central Bank of Libya, is one of the most tangible results of Italian economic diplomacy and frequent visits to Libya by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Mayo, and the mission of Prime Minister Mario Draghi to Tripoli on 6 April 2021.
The Oil and Gas Minister Mohamed Aoun participated in the 27th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC, yesterday, Thursday, with the participation of ministers of non-OPEC oil exporting countries via zoom technology.
The assembled ministers agreed to continue to compensate for the reduction in production by an amount of 43,200 barrels per day during the month of April, and the increase was distributed to the countries contributing to the reduction, with the exception of Libya from contributing to the reduction.
This meeting was also followed by another emergency meeting, the 183rd meeting of the organization, where the topic of updating secondary sources that are used by the OPEC General Secretariat in order to complete production information, was discussed.
The Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, met with the General Director of the French Total Energies Company in Tripoli, Pascal Brent, to sign an agreement to implement development projects in the areas of oil operations between the National Oil Corporation and Total Energy, worth 20 million dollars.
On this occasion, Sanalla said: « This agreement came as one of the requirements for Marathon’s acquisition of Waha Oil Company, which took place nearly two years ago. Total is a strategic partner of the National Oil Corporation and has areas of operations throughout Libya. We are trying to benefit from this amount in order to conduct real development, and we look forward to strengthening this cooperation on other occasions.”
Pascal, for his part, said that « Total Energy employees were happy to participate in providing the requirements of the Corona pandemic, and we are working hard to help the World Health Organization in its work inside Libya, and we are looking forward to building after the sports facilities represented by several stadiums and seven halls to practice sports activities. »
