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Latest update of COVID-19 infections in Libya

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722 new cases of Coronavirus were registered in Libya, according to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

The NCDC announced in a statement on its official Facebook page that 600 new recoveries had been registered, in addition to 8 deaths due to COVID-19.

According to the Center, the total amount of infections reached 74,324 cases,28,566 of which remain active, however the number of people fully recovered increased to 44,733 , while the number of fatalities reached 1025.

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The National Center for Disease Control analyzed on Sunday, November 14, 5841 blood samples. The center confirmed that 4867 samples have tested negative for COVID-19 and 974 samples tested positive.

Libya, Tunisia reopened joint borders

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The Head of the Passports, Nationality and Foreigners Affairs Department, the Director of the General Administration of Ports Security, the Director of the General Administration of Central Support, the Security Director of the Ras Ajdir border crossing and the Tunisian Consul to Libya attended the reopening ceremony.

The reopening came after the Libyan and Tunisian sides signed a joint health protocol to put the precautionary and health measures to prevent the Coronavirus pandemic.

 In the same context, the Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) decided to resume activities at the Wazzin Border Crossing with Tunisia after months of closure due to the coronavirus outbreak in the two countries.

In a statement, the ministry said that the decision to reopen Wazzin land port aims to facilitate the movement of citizens between the two countries, starting today according to the protocol agreed upon between the Libyan and Tunisian authorities.

Ghassan Salame optimistic more than ever befor for Peace in Libya

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The UN’s former envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, says he has higher hopes than ever of seeing an end to a decade of violence in the country.

“I’m very optimistic,” the Lebanese diplomat said. “What we’ve seen in the past two months is an accumulation of positive factors.”

Salame spoke in an interview with AFP a day after rival military delegations concluded their latest UN-led meetings inside Libya to fill in the details of a landmark October ceasefire deal.

Meanwhile political talks, also led by the world body, were underway in Tunisia aimed at appointing an interim government to organize elections and govern a country battered by conflict, economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday evening the UN announced that delegates in Tunisia had agreed that national polls should be held on December 24 next year.

Speaking from his home in Paris, he warned that “a war that has been raging for one decade cannot be solved in a day.”

Salame said Libya was now close to being able to run elections safe enough to be “reasonably representative of the will of the people.”

“I believe this can be done in the next six or seven months.”

Libya’s Economic Reform Salon urges CBL’s board of directors to meet

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In a correspondence, members of the Economic Salon, which is a Libyan policy reform think-tank made up of the country’s elite administrators, managers, politicians, activists, media personalities, academics, and businesspeople, has urged the board of directors of the Central Bank of Libya to meet.

The statement reads as follows:” We, the undersigned, are closely following the UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) launched in Tunis, which is charting the preparatory phase’s roadmap for a comprehensive solution.”

“Aware of the urgent importance of consolidating the monetary authority in the country and addressing the economic crises that exhausted the citizen, we invite the makers of the modern Political Charter to include in an explicit, binding and time-bound provision under which the monetary authority would be unified. It would be embodied in the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Libya and in the banking system in order to carry out its specified tasks in accordance with the Banking Act and its amendments.”

The signatories are:

  • Mr. Musbah Al-Akari
  • Dr. Taha Baara
  • Mr. Mondher Al-Shahumi
  • Mr. Akrem Al-Ghzewi
  • Mr. Ahmed Sayala
  • Dr. Ali Atia
  • Mr, Hamza Abu Dhahir
  • Dr. Suleiman Al-Shahumy
  • Dr. Abdullah Al-Hassi
  • Dr. Ali Atia
  • Mr. Louay Al-Majri
  • Mr. Ramadam Al-Shaoush
  • Dr. Ezzedin Ashur
  • Dr. Ali Al-Sherif
  • Mr. Moncef Al-Shelwi
  • Dr. Abu Bakker Al-Mansuri
  • Mr. Mahmoud Al-Weshahi
  • Mr. Asam Al-Abiresh
  • Ms. Nadia Jaouda
  • Dr. Abdullah Kablan
  • Mr. Massoud Grifa
  • Mr. Husni Bey
  • Mr. Muaffak Al-Sarraj
  • Mr. Muhamed Emhammed Abdullah
  • Eng. Nejib Al-Athrem
  • Mr. Ahmed Al-Sakran
  • Mr. Mahmoud Al-Oujli
  • Mr. Idriss Al-Sherif

Libyan parties to hold elections on Dec. 24, 2021

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Libya’s warring sides agreed Friday to hold elections on Dec. 24, 2021, on Libya’s independence day, according to the head of the UN support mission in the country.

The decision came during a UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) which began Monday in Tunisia between representatives of the internationally recognized Libyan government and warlord Khalifa Haftar.

The participants agreed to establish a new Presidential Council and executive body to manage the transition period and hold national elections, Stephanie Turco Williams told reporters.

The duties and authority of the government and Presidential Council, which will manage the transition process, were also discussed during the meeting, Williams said.

Williams added that the UN will provide technical support for the elections to be organized by Libya’s own independent election board.

Tunisia, Libya to resume flights

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Tunisia and Libya will start an air travel bubble Nov. 15, an official statement said Friday.

Flights will resume after being halted for eight months because of the novel coronavirus, Tunisia’s Ministry of Transport and Logistics said in a statement.

They will be arranged within the framework of measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with a health protocol agreement reached Wednesday between the two countries.

Death toll from shipwrecks in Libya coast rises to 100

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The death toll from Thursday’s shipwrecks off the coast of Libya has risen to 100, the UN migration agency said Friday in a statement. 

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said since Oct. 1 eight other shipwrecks have occurred in the Central Mediterranean since Oct. 1.

The vessel was carrying over 120 people, including women and children.

Cairo frets over its workers in Libya

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Hoda al-Mallah, director of the International Center for Economic Consulting and Feasibility Studies, told Al-Monitor that Libya’s stability will lead to an increase in job opportunities for Egyptian workers. according o Al-Monitr.

Consequently, he added, there will be a rise in remittances from Egyptians abroad, one of the main sources of national income that has been severely affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus.

According to data from the Central Bank of Egypt, remittances from Egyptians working abroad during the last fiscal year that ended in June reached a record high of over $27.8 billion compared to $25.2 billion the previous year, and remittances fell in April, May and June.

Mallah said that Egypt is quite interested in the safety of its citizens abroad, and it is discussing ways to protect them because their safety is important for improving the national economy, reducing unemployment, increasing the national income and improving the standard of living.

Libyan oil production tops 1.2 million b/d

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Libyan oil production has now reached 1.215 million barrels per day (bpd), a Libyan oil source told Reuters on Friday, as the OPEC member’s oil industry recovers faster than expected.

The North African country’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Nov. 7 that production had reached 1.04 million bpd.

Libya’s oil output has been rising steadily since the gradual lifting of an eight-month blockade by eastern forces in September. On Oct. 26, NOC ended force majeure on the last facilities closed by the blockade.