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The deputy Minister of Education, Adel Jumaa, stated that the date for the announcement of results of the first round of exams for primary education pupils will be next Monday at 1:00 pm. Juma added in a statement published on the official website of the ministry on Friday that students can obtain results online by following the linkas soon as it is activated and placed on the Ministry's official website The Libyan Ministry of Education or on Facebook. The person can obtain their results by entering their registration number in the box allocated, then follow instructions on screen.

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Oil field workers at the Sharara base have warned that the level of oil production at the field is declining gradually due to a lack of security and repeated armed robberies on workers during the past week. Workers said in a statement on Friday, that production at the field was at a steady 290 thousand barrels per day but that number is steadily declining and the oil field workers have called on officials from the company's management and the National Oil Corporation to intervene quickly to extend security in and around the Sharara field so that work can continue at full capacity.

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The head of the Administrative Control Authority have requested from the Ministry of Economy and Industry of the UN proposed government, to implement procedures concerning the importation of livestock to ensure that the goods reach the citizens of Libya at the right price. The request by the control authority comes in light of high prices of livestock and meat especially during the period of Eid al-Adha.

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The Illegal Immigration Agency deported 127 illegal immigrants from Nigeria on Thursday. The immigrants were deported to their country from Matiga International Airport after the Libyan Navy seized them as they began to migrate to Europe. The head of the Deportation Office confirmed that the deportation is part of a voluntary flights system where the agency periodically operates flights in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration.

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Libyan traveler Busiri Khamis arrived in the city of Qatrun at the end of the first phase of his peace journey which started from the village of Targhi in the very far south after traveling more than seventy km on foot. Busairi will continue his journey to Sabha through Um Alaranib, Taraghan and Ghudwa, covering an amazing 432 kilometres.

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The Educational Facilities Authority announced the start of maintenance projects in more than 1000 schools in all educational districts in Libya. The Director General of the Department, Samir Coco, explained that they are in communication with a number of local companies to start maintenance work in accordance with established regulations, stressing that these projects will be completed before the start of the new school year. Coco also pointed out that priority will be given to the most dilapidated schools within municipalities under their scope.

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Social networking sites reported that citizens found three illegal immigrants on the side of the road near Nesma, 150 kilometers south-west of Tripoli. One of them was in critical condition and was taken by ambulance to Bani Walid Hospital. The hospital refused to admit him so the person was transferred by ambulance to Gharyan hospital which also refused to admit him. The person was returned to Nesma and died from his wounds, while the other two suffered fractures and minor wounds. The injured men apparently fell from one of the many smugglers trucks.

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The Committee formed by the Municipal Council of Sirte and charged with searching for bodies inside the city as a result of the war against ISIS; have extracted more than 25 unidentified bodies in different areas in Sirte. The committee chairman, Khalifa Ghaith, said that they have handed over the bodies to the crime team in Misrata and added that the committee are continuing their work through cooperation with the Libyan Red Crescent in the city by extracting any remaining bodies.

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Libya's national football team has been ranked 83rd in the world rankings, which is an improvement of four places when compared with the last results. FIFA posted on their official website, showing the Libyan team ahead of its previous ranking of 87th.

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News Roundup - Sat, Aug 12, 2017 - The Libya Observer

The UNICEF Regional Director, Geert Cappelaere, said that 550,000 children need assistance due the political instability, on-going conflict, displacement, and economic collapse after years of the Libyan crisis.

Cappelaere said in a statement after visiting Libya for the first time in the past couple of days that violence in the country forced families to leave their houses, warning that more than 80,000 children are internally displaced.

"Migrant children in Libya are particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, including in detention centers." Cappelaere's statement reads.

He also indicated that since 2011, UNICEF has been expanding its assistance to respond to childrens needs on the ground as more than 1.3 million children were vaccinated against polio last year.

"UNICEF and partners, including national institutions, were able to maintain nearly universal immunization coverage even when violence was at its peak." The statement adds.

UNICEF partnered with 28 municipalities across Libya under the Together for Children Campaign to support childrens basic rights, the statement that was posted on UNICEF's website explains.

Next October, UNICEF plans to have all its international staff operating full-time from Libya. UNICEF will further scale up its assistance to reach 1.5 million girls and boys and support strengthening of national institutions and civil society." The statement concludes.

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UNICEF: Over half a million Libyan children require humanitarian aids - The Libya Observer

BERLIN Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to cooperate more closely with Libya to stem the influx of migrants from North Africa to Europe via perilous Mediterranean crossings.

The process is in its infancy, but its supposed to develop like [the refugee deal with] Turkey once did, the chancellor told journalists Friday following talks with senior officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR).

To achieve this, Merkel said, its crucial to strengthen Libyas government and improve conditions in detention centers across the country.

Dodging a question on whether she supported a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to set up hotspots to handle asylum requests from start to finish in Libya, Merkel said efforts to improve the situation should not fail over money, promising the organizations up to50 million this year for new operations on the ground in Libya.

Fridays working lunch, set up at Merkels request, took place as the Italian government attributed a sharp drop in the number of refugees arriving at its southern shores to closer operation with war-torn Libya.

During the first 10 days of August, the number of migrants making the crossing to Italy fell by 76 percent compared to the same period last year; last month, the number of arrivals had already halved compared to 2016. Interior Minister Marco Minniti told POLITICOon Thursday this was a direct result of Italys attempts to boost the Libyan navy and coast guards ability to deal with vessels carrying migrants.

However, talk of a potential turning point in the migration crisis along the Central Mediterranean route, which has become the main entry point for undocumented migrants to Europe, is premature, the IOMs regional director for the EU, Norway and Switzerland cautioned ahead of the meeting with Merkel.

These sort of comparisons need to be done over a longer period of time, Eugenio Ambrosi told POLITICO in an interview at the IOMs Berlin office.Its enough to have two weeks of bad weather more than last year, and you have a drop [in numbers.]

Ambrosi acknowledged that the Italian measures could have had an impact but stressed that other factors such as a significant reduction of the number of people entering Libya from sub-Saharan Africa, as well as well as the slow stabilization of the political situation in parts of Libya, were equally decisive.

Whats more, most migrants picked up by Libyan ships are brought back to detention centers where conditions are not acceptable, he added.So you have taken them out of a nasty situation at sea, but you are putting them in an equally nasty or at times worse situation on land.

Asked about Macrons suggestion of hotspots in Libya, Ambrosi said that although the idea seemed excellent on paper, there currently were some insurmountable problems such as the lack of a legal framework for such centers, and that only a few European countries are willing to take in refugees whose application for asylum is approved.

We [first] need to have many more assurances from EU member states that those that would be recognized as refugees in these offshore processing centers are then actually accepted for resettlement, he said. And the track record, so far, of Europe as a whole, of course with exceptions is not necessarily encouraging.

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The European migrant crisis has had its share of striking images. The death of three-year old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi, drowned on a Turkish beach, brought world-wide attention to the plight of Syrian refugees. The demolition of the Calais jungle.Streams of thousands moving through the Balkansor packed by the hundreds into tiny boats. But few images from the crisis have been quite as striking by contrast as when a full boat of migrants on Wednesday landed at a tourist beach in Cadiz, Spain:

Weve written at length and for many years about the challenges that uncontrolled migration poses to the European project, all of which are once again brought to mind here. But perhaps the most troubling new development in the crisis is where these migrants are setting off from, as The Telegraph reports:

Spain could surpass Greece this year as a gateway formigrantsentering Europe by sea, international monitors warned on Thursday, as the number of arrivals swells to treble that of 2016.

Amid a crackdown on migration through Libya, more than 8,000 people have turned to the so-called Western Mediterranean Route from Morocco into Spain this year, compared to 2,500 during the same period in 2016.

The increase in migration through Morocco means that the Italians progress in controlling the migration flows from Libya might simply be diverting them westwards. After a massive surge in June that saw 12,000 migrants arrive in 48 hours, the Italian government was finally compelled to act. Italys navy is now patrolling the Libyan coast. In an interview with Politico, the Italian interior minister laid out Italys plan, which is refreshingly sensible:

The Italian minister has three requests to Europe. The first: to allocate to Africa and especially Libya, which currently accounts for 97 percent of departures [to Italy] the same amount of effort and resources that it devoted last year to stemming migration flows through the Balkans. [.]

Minnitis second request is for help tackling the problem of migrant reception centers in Libya, where he envisages increased cooperation between the EU and the United Nations. Last week,a reportdrafted by EU officials detailed severe shortcomings in sanitary conditions in the refugee centers in Libya. [.]

His final request and perhaps the biggest one is for Europe to make a five-year commitment to invest in the mayors of the 14 main Libyan cities where migrant smuggling takes place. The best way to stabilize the country, the minister said, is to create viable economic alternatives to the business of human trafficking, which currently constitutes the only functioning enterprises in Libya.

The Italian plan is serious in ways that Brussels efforts are not. Among the EUs only notable accomplishments in recent months: limiting exports of rubber boats to Libya. You cant make this stuff up.

The Italians have learned a hard lesson that Brussels cannot solve their migrant problems and have taken action. The Spanish, as yet, have not. If halting migration flows from war-torn Libya simply diverts those flows elsewhere, then Europe is in for a very long crisis indeed.

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Migrants, Blocked in Libya, Promptly Shift to Morocco - The American Interest

Farah Elle's music is unusual for an Irish artist in its mix of bright pop and Middle Eastern-style phrasing

I dont know what its like to go and try to rebuild a country, so I just have to respect that, says Farah El Neihum, better known by her stage name, Farah Elle, about her mother Dr Fatima Hamroush.

Dr Hamroush, a consultant ophthalmologist, moved her family to Ireland from Libya in 1996 when Farah was two years old and when the Libyan civil war broke out in 2000, she was an active member of the opposition, setting up the Irish Libyan Emergency Aid organisation.

After Colonel Gaddafi was ousted from power in 2011, Dr Hamroush was appointed Minister for Health in the Libyan Transitional Government, which meant leaving Elle and her two brothers to their own devises at home in Julianstown, Co. Meath, while she spent a chaotic year in Benghazi trying to rebuild the country.

I was 17, doing my Leaving Cert and within two days of her being nominated she had to go and she was just goneThere was no time to process what was going on, she told Risn Ingle on the latest Risn Meets podcast.

Theirs was a very unique situation and while it was difficult, Elle is incredibly proud of her mother who she refers to as a "rock 'n' roll ninja" and queen of the art of the mix-tape.

Being brought up Muslim, music was not a massive part of Elles childhood but she has strong memories of those mix-tapes her mother would make for long car journeys, with songs by Abba and Boney M, as well as her fathers good signing voice.

She got her first proper keyboard as a 12-year-old, taught herself to play and has been banging out tunes on it ever since.

After years of weekend schooling in the Mosque in Clonskeagh, Elle is fluent in Arabic and goes between it and English in many of her songs. In this podcast you will hear her perform four of themlive in studio: Rajeen, Sunblock, Holiday and Laundry.

To listen to Farah Elle speak to Risn Ingle about music, her fascinating family, growing up Muslim in Ireland, and more, go to http://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts iTunes, Soundcloud or your preferred podcast app.

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