The total number of Coronavirus pandemic cases in Libya exceeded 6,000, after the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced Tuesday the registration of 373 new cases in different cities in the country.
The center confirmed that 16 patients have recovered from the disease and seven patients died.
With these new numbers, the total number of cases in Libya has reached 6302, of which 5430 are still active, 740 recovered cases and 132 deaths.
The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has released the state revenues and expenditure from January 01 to July 31, 2020.
According to the report, the CBL stated that the total revenues reached 3.346 billion Libyan dinars.
It reported that it had received oil revenues for this period of LD 2.218 billion, while Tax Revenues were 304 million.
Other revenues were distributed as following; Customs Revenues:
As far as expenditures are concerned, the CBL said that the total expenditure reached 19.077 billion dinars distributed as following:
The Central Bank also stated that the total funds approved by the Ministry of Finance to face the Coronavirus pandemic amounted to 847 million dinars, of which 562 million were allocated to the Ministry of Health.
The Bank added that 49 million dinars were allocated for municipalities and local councils, 95 million dinars were allocated for Military Medicine, and 35 million for the Ambulance and Emergency Services, whilst 65 million were for the Medical Supply Services and 41 million for Libyan embassies and consulates abroad.
During a televised interview for Libyan WTV channel and Tabadul Platform, deputy prime minister of the government in eastern Libya, Abdul Salam al-Badri, said there are pretty large errors in the country, admitting that there is a mess with public funds.
Al-Badri also emphasized that the Libyans are capable of solving all their problems in case they discuss issues together.
In addition, he denied the news circulated about spending a budget estimated at LD 9 billion, adding that this amount was taken as loans from commercial banks.
” A statehood cannot exist under the actual administrative and financial corruption.” He said.
“The reason behind the long-hour power outages in Benghazi is the maintenance work,” he added, stressing that the oil blockade does not constitute a reason for the power cuts and blackouts.
“We are leading groups of gangs and militias,” the deputy prime minister said.
As far as the power cuts are concerned, al-Badri pointed out that there is no way to compare the western and eastern regions, considering that ectricity does not cut off for long hours in the western region.
According to al-Badri, the latest power cuts were due to the lack of fuel, spare parts as well as funds.
” About 370 million dinars have been spent by The Central Bank of Libya since the Libyan government was appointed, and only about 20 million dinars have been spent on electricity sector.” he stated.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Head of the National committee for combating money laundering and Terrorism Financing, Saddek Elkaber and the minister of the interior of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Ali Bashagha signed an agreement on cooperation in Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.
This agreement comes at the conclusion of the National Committee’s meeting held on the 5th of August 2020 and it testifies to the commitment of the Libyan State to international standards and best practices.
It opens the door for further joint action to achieve effective cooperation to combat corruption, money laundering and terrorism financing crimes.
In press statements, the director of the National Center for Disease Control, Badr Al-Din Al-Najjar, said that the epidemiological situation in Libya is worsening, especially in the cities of Tripoli and Misrata, as well as the south.
“We have not reached the required number of tests in the heart of a large pandemic like this one. We are supposed to do 10,000 tests a day. We conduct from 1000 to 1500 tests, and the laboratories that carry out this process are just eight laboratories, which are under the supervision of the center.” he said.
“Sada” economic Newspaper said it has received a copy of the Audit Bureau’s annual report for 2019 revealing that the Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) did not deal with the Libyan Audit Bureau in order to evaluate its job performance during 2019.
The report includes certain offences belonging to some organs of the Ministry of the Interior.
For instance, there are financial obligations on the Tourist Police and Antiquities Protection Authority. However, this issue has not been resolved until December 31, 2018. It includes section one, in the sum of LD 17.511 m, in addition to section two in the amount of 595 thousand Dinars.
Many violations related to the Department of Passports and Nationality were monitored as well, among which the lower quality printing of 2019 passports.
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh met with US envoy to Libya Richard Norland on Sunday and agreed to meet with Western delegations in addition to the Egyptian leadership.
Saleh held talks with Norland on maintaining the cease-fire and reopening talks to end the crisis in the country.
Libya’s Waha oil fields have had work carried out on them to maintain the production and service facilities after they were offline for more than seven months due to an oil blockade, senior oil officials said Aug. 10, according to S&P Global Platts, provider of energy and commodities information.
The Waha oil fields in the Sirte Basin make up about a third of Libyan crude oil production, with the capacity to pump around 350,000 b/d.
The repairs at Waha were being carried out to reduce the risk of the sudden stoppages at the fields which were caused due to the force majeure, which is in place at Libya’s key eastern oil terminals.
“This work will help speed up the production processes upon full operation and spare these strategic facilities any technical obstacles due to complete paralysis of work and declaring the state of force majeure,” said Abd Al-Salam Mansour, head of production department at the Waha oil fields.
According to Daily Sabah, Germany, France and Italy plan to push ahead with a bid to use European Union sanctions to stem the continuing supply of arms to war-torn Libya.
The three countries have agreed on a list of companies and individuals providing ships, aircraft or other logistics for the transport of weapons, in violation of a United Nations embargo that has been in place since 2011, EU sources told dpa news agency.
“We are prepared to consider a possible use of sanctions if infringements against the land, sea and air embargo continue,” the countries’ three heads of government wrote in a joint statement without naming a state or entity which could be the target of the measure.
A senior official for Libya’s Man Made River, Ahmad al-Deeb, told Tabadul that water supply will flow back to Zliten on Tuesday in case no attacks would be registered.