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High State Council urges economic boycott of French goods, companies

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On Sunday the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) called for the ceasing of economic relations with French companies. It also called for cancelling the contract of French oil firm Total that operates the Al-Waha oil field.

The HCS added that the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA) should respond to the insults made by France against the Prophet Mohammed. It has urged the judicial authorities to deliver final verdicts on HCS’s appeal against the “dubious” acquisition of Marathon concessions by Total.

“We have heard the irresponsible statements of French President Emmanuel Macron, who insisted on publishing caricatures that insult the Prophet Mohammed. He claimed this was freedom of expression. It is an insult to over 1.5 billion Muslims by President Macron and this is a proof of France’s fake democracy and the reality that it is a colonial power”, the statement reads.

The HCS also condemned the killing of the French teacher, describing the incident as going against Islamic teachings and resulting in President Macron’s racist policies.

1210 more COVID-19 cases recorded in Libya

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1210 new cases of Coronavirus were registered in Libya, according to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

According to the Center, the total amount of infections reached 57,223 cases, 24,907 of which remain active, however the number of people fully recovered increased to 31,515, while the number of fatalities reached 801.

The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on Sunday that the highest number of daily infections with the Coronavirus has been recorded, reaching 1639 new infections with an excess of half the cases recorded in Tripoli.

UN Welcomes Libya’s lifting of force majeure on oil ports

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The UN mission in Libya on Saturday welcomed an announcement of lifting the state of “force majeure” from Libya’s eastern Sidra and Ras Lanuf ports.

“This decision is a result of the confidence-building measures agreed and implemented through the Joint Military Commission. It’s a win-win for the Libyan people,” the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement.

The UN mission said the announcement “demonstrates what can be accomplished when Libyans come together in good faith for the sake of their country”.

Libya announces new Covid-19 infections

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990 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 346 new recoveries had been registered, in addition to 16 deaths due to COVID-19.

This brings the total number of the pandemic cases in Libya to 54,374, including 23,619 active cases, 29,965 recoveries, and 790 deaths.

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Lifting Force Majeure on Sidra and Ras Lanuf Ports

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The National Oil Corporation (NOC) declares lifting Force Majeure status as of Friday 23 October 2020 and instructions have already been given to start production arrangements subject to the standards of general security and safety precautions and the safety of the operations.

The National Oil Corporation has received confirmations that the foreign forces had left the ports area which will enable it to perform its oil operations and resume exports.As NOC highly commends the efforts exerted by all local and international parties, it undertakes to hold to the non-political professional principles, continues in performing its responsibilities and duties in a completely neutral manner and declares that as production resumes from Waha and Harouge fields, production level will reach 800 thousand bbl./day during two weeks and will exceed one million barrels in four weeks.

The production of gas feeding power-generating units in Zueitina and north of Benghazi will also increase. However, non-obtaining the adequate financial allocations during these weeks to pay for the debts accrued in the oil sector and the required budgets to implement the maintenance and repairs operations, the results of blockades throughout the year 2020, prevent from the possibility of sustaining the mentioned-above production levels and at any case getting production levels to those that exist before the blockades will not be possible.

Trump appears to have pocketed funds from Muammar el-Qaddafi -Raw Story

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“In 2009, for example, he agreed to rent his Seven Springs estate in Westchester County, N.Y., to the Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who hoped to stay in a tent on the grounds during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly,” Raw Story reported.

“Though the plans fell apart when local residents objected, Colonel Qaddafi made a payment of $150,000, which Mr. Trump told CNN in 2011 that he had given to charity. His 2009 tax returns, however, reported only $22,796 in business and personal cash gifts,” the newspaper explained.

Mercenaries, foreign fighters to depart Libya within three months – UN

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All mercenaries and foreign fighters are supposed to depart from Libya within three months of the signing of the Libyan nationwide ceasefire on Friday, the United Nations envoy said.

Stephanie Williams, U.N. acting envoy for Libya, told a news conference on Friday after the ceasefire agreement signing in Geneva that there were “good indications that the oil installations of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider will be ready to resume production in the near future, in a very short period of time.”

First Tripoli-Benghazi flight for a year follows Libya talks

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A commercial passenger plane flew from the Libyan capital Tripoli across front lines to the eastern city of Benghazi for the first time in more than a year on Friday after talks between the country’s warring parties in Geneva.

Flights between them had stopped in the summer of 2019 as shelling by Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) targeted Tripoli’s Mitiga airport.