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Libyas major oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf are resuming operations and preparing to export crude after a two-week halt in shipments due to military clashes in the holder of Africas largest crude reserves.

Libyas total production rose to 646,000 barrels a day from 621,000 barrels on Sunday mostly due to an increase from Waha Oil Co., Jadalla Alaokali, a National Oil Corp.board member, said Monday by phone. Waha Oil feeds into Es Sider, the countrys biggest oil port. Staff are returning to Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, its third-largest, and exports are set to restart in a week to 10 days,Alaokali said Sunday.

Both ports are ready to restart exports, Alaokali said.

Waha Oil, a joint venture between the NOC, Hess Corp., Marathon Oil Corp. and ConocoPhillips, suspended production earlier this month after clashes between armed factions in the politically divided nation forced Es Sider and Ras Lanuf to suspend shipments. Waha Oil is "soon" expected to reach75,000 to 80,000 barrels a day, the level it was at about two weeks ago before fighting broke out near the ports on March 3, according to Alaokali. It began pumping on Saturday.

Forces loyal to Libyas eastern-based military commander Khalifa Haftar regained control over the two ports on March 14.The fighting, including airstrikes, dealt a blow to international efforts to restore stability in the country. A rival grouphad seized Es Sider and Ras Lanuf earlier this month.

Libyas eastern oil region is safe now, and companies in the area can resume normal operations related to production and exports, Mustafa El-Zegheid, coordinator of the NOCs Oil Crescent emergency committee, said.

At least45 workers and engineers have returned to their jobs at Ras Lanuf and 35 others at Es Sider,El-Zegheid said.Employees at Es Sider have inspected storage tanks and valves, and the facilities are ready to receive crude from the Waha field, which will slowly increase Waha Oils production, he said.

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Libya has sought to boost crude exports after fighting among rival militias hobbled oil production following the overthrow in 2011 of dictator Moammar Al Qaddafi.The conflict showed signs of calming in recent months, with oil output reaching about 700,000 barrels a day in February from 260,000 a day in August, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Libya pumped 1.6 million barrels a day before Qaddafis ouster.

Waha Oil has an output capacity of more than 300,000 barrels a day, according to the NOCs website. Its production dropped by half to 40,000 barrels a day after the closing of Es Sider, before it came to a complete halt. Libya has been rescheduling crude loadings at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf and transferring them to other ports such as Zueitina and Brega.

Libya split into separately governed regions in 2014, leading to the establishment of competing NOC administrations. A deal meant to unite them under a single management was signed in July 2016. The future of that accord now appears uncertain as the head of the NOC in the east said earlier this month he was pulling out of the deal because the terms of the agreement, including the transfer of the companys headquarters to Benghazi, have yet to be met.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Displacement Tracking Matrix programme was established in Libya in October 2015 to fill the need for accurate and timely data on displacement, return and migration dynamics in the country.

DTM Libya tracks IDPs, returnees and migrants through two complementary modules:

Mobility Tracking carries out regular baseline assessments gathering data on the numbers, locations, characteristics and needs of IDPs, returnees and migrants across Libya, providing country-wide baselines on these population groups.

Flow Monitoring gathers data on migrants mobile in Libya. Flow Monitoring consists of daily assessments quantifying the flow of migrants at key entry, transit and exit points in the country. Flow Monitoring Surveys are also conducted with a randomly selected sample of observed migrants on a daily basis to obtain more detailed information about migrants origins, characteristics, routes used, and migratory drivers. All Flow Monitoring reports are available on the DTM Libya website.

DTM Libya launched its first round of Mobility Tracking in January 2016. During 2016 DTM carried out 7 displacement tracking rounds concluding its last round in November through to December. This report will focus on Mobility Tracking data on IDPs and returnees. Mobility Tracking Round 7 data on migrants is presented in a separate report, Libya 2016 Migration Profiles and Trends (i).

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Internal Displacement in Libya: 2016 in Review - Rounds 1-7 - ReliefWeb

A GECOL official in Al-Jufra, Mohammed Enkam, said the five electric towers (66 k.v) are being repaired after they fell down during the sand storm few days ago and led to a blackout in Zillah. He added that the electricity will return to the district once the repairing works end in the coming days.

Libyan coastguards rescued 215 migrants including 47 women en route to Italy. A spokesperson for the Libyan Coast Guard said the migrants were on two boats inside Libyan waters. Eyewitnesses said as many as 30 migrants who were on the second boat are missing in the sea. Libyan coastguards added that they recovered three women's bodies from the sea.

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TheNational Commission for Human Rights in Libya warned of the growing of hate speech as well as violence, extremism and radical religious ideologies as well as tribal and regional fanaticism via media outlets and social media platforms. It said this could lead to more division among Libyans. It called for adopting a speech that advocates for tolerance, reconciliation, peace and forgiveness, and a speech that respect the right of citizenship and political pluralism.

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Sirte is undergoing a water shortage crisis as water supplies have been cut from the main sources of Al-Sarir and Tazerbo fields that pump into Ajdabiya reservoir, besides the outage from Omar Al-Mukhtar pipeline from Benghazi and Gerdabiya reservoir. The officials at the Man-Made River said power outage at the two fields led to this bad situation as water stopped pumping out of the wells.

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Aman Bank will soon open a branch in Tarhouna city, according to an agreement between the administration and Tarhouna mayor, Ayyad Albey. The head of the media office at Tarhouna municipality said a committee from Aman Bank will visit the lot allocated for the building of the bank in the coming days, adding that this will help take some banking work off the shoulders of the city's banks and create a competitive atmosphere.

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A patrol nearby Kalinja mountains in southeastern Libya intercepted several trucks smuggling Libyan fuel to Chad. Local media reported the patrol's personnel as saying that the truck drivers are Chadian nationals, who have entered Libya illegally. They added that Kufra military zone warned earlier of smuggling fuel, humans, and foods as well as other commodities as it is very harmful to Libya's sovereignty.

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News Roundup - Mon, Mar 20, 2017 - The Libya Observer

The Islamic Research and Studies Council (IRSC) of the Fatwa House in Libya has said that the action taken by certain armed groups in Tripoli to "deter" outlaws is in itself an act of outlawry because of the panic it caused for the people, the damage it did to personal and public properties and the burning of some TV channels that oppose their ideologies.

The IRSC added in a statement Sunday that the armed groups that clashed in Tripoli had violated the laws as they attacked public institutions such as Hadba Prison, where several Gaddafi henchmen, including his son Al-Saadi, are being held, and killed a number of its guards.

"Not to mention the attack they conducted on the Guest Palaces in Rixos and the building of the General Intelligence Department." The IRC indicated.

The council also denounced the protests that were staged with slogans against the February revolution igniting revenge from certain cities, which were named by those men who organized the protest, and hailing the crimes committed in Benghazi with all the inhumane atrocities done by the coup plotters in there.

"We support the right of peaceful demonstrating and protesting for all Libyans as long as they commit to the moral and sharia ethics." The IRSC remarked.

The IRSC of the Fatwa House also slammed the so-called Dignity Operation crime gangs as inhuman after they had killed the women and entire families who tried to break out of the siege laid on Ganfouda.

"Digging up tombs and parading the bodies of the dead as well as burning the corpses are acts of brutality and can only be described as bestial behavior of nonhuman creatures." The IRSC explained, saying that the perpetrators and the silence voices among their tribes must await the wrath of Allah for such atrocities.

The IRSC remarked that the damage done by the latest incidents and violations in the country would not be healed by apologies or ornamented statements full of wordplay to silence the damaged people and the families of the martyrs by giving them compensations or the like.

"Libya has the right to put a decisive end to the growing threat of the coup plotters who are messing with the safety and security of the country." The Islamic Research and Studies Council concluded.

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