The Libyan Presidential Council (PC) issued on Thursday a new decree in order to force local people to comply with Covid-19 preventive measures in a new attempt to curb the spread of the disease in the country. The Presidential Council extended the general country-wide curfew for 10 days effective from…

The US Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on three Libyans and a Malta-based company, accusing them of acting as a network of smugglers and contributing to instability in Libya. The Treasury said that the competition for control of smuggling routes, oil facilities, and transport nodes is a key dr…

Libya on Friday reported 404 new COVID-19 confirmed cases raising the country’s total to 4,879, according to figures from the nation’s National Center for Disease Control (NCDC). NCDC also confirmed the recovery of 12 patients, raising the number of recoveries to 652. The death toll of Covid-19 has risen to 1…

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against a network of smugglers contributing to instability in Libya. OFAC designated Libyan national Faysal al-Wadi (Wadi), operator of the vessel Maraya; two associates, Musbah Mohamad M Wadi (…