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Enis oil production in Libya has halved to around 160,000 barrels per day, the Italian majors chief executive said on Thursday.

The situation in Libya is very difficult since for more than three weeks theres been a million barrels stuck, Claudio Descalzi said on the sidelines of a conference.

Descalzi said output was low, around 156,000-160,000 barrels per day compared to a previous 300,000 barrels.

Our concern is for the people. We have more than 5,000 people and we need to understand if we can pay their salaries, Descalzi said.

Libyas oil production had dropped sharply since groups loyal to eastern based commander Khalifa Haftar began a blockade on Jan. 18, closing ports and fields in the east and south.

Eni is the biggest foreign oil producer in Libya.Source: Reuters (Reporting by Giancarlo Navach, writing by Stephen Jewkes)

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By Sami Zaptia.

London, 5 February 2020:

The Second Libyan Real Estate Development Forum opened in the first of its two-day programme in Tunis today. The morning session on the role of urban planning rules and regulations threw up contrarian views on sequencing and how best to move forward in the short term.

Day one focused on the role of new urban development plans in developing the sector where some participants criticised the Libyan Urban Planning Authority for failing to provide the foundation for the development of Libyas real estate sector. One example was the fact that Libyas National Planning Councils Libya 2040 Vision, which includes a vision to improve urban planning, but the plan has not been implemented since 2013.

Those holding the view that current rules and regulations need to be changed or updated as a prerequisite to the sector developing say that the legacy laws represented the socialist regime prior to 2011 and that the new post 2011 Libya needs rules and laws that reflect the new political philosophy and outlook which enshrines and prioritises the private sector. They argued the Qaddafi regime implemented decrees without prior planning whereas post 2011 every citizen is claiming property appropriated by the state as theirs.

Others blame the impotence of successive post 2011 Libyan governments for the lack of progress in the sector. Husni Bey, Chairman of the Beysons Group, for example, lamented the fact that Libyan banks sit on over LD 105 bn of private sector deposits which are uninvested and looking for a safe and secure destination to invest in.

This, he added, has led to 70 percent of buildings in Libya being unplanned constructions outside the official urban plan because there has not been a comprehensive Libyan urban plan since 1978. The state was only concerned with urban plans for the public sector and not for the then unrecognized and discouraged private sector under the Qaddafi regime.

However, Bey adds, the state had and has failed in its own projects and has no funds available for development in general and for the real estate sector. He notes that 60 percent of Libyan non-oil development is in the real estate sector and only the private sector can succeed in developing the sector and for this it needs an urban plan.

However, Bey disagrees with the view that the sector cannot move forward until new sector legislation is enshrined. He says that view is used as an excuse for inaction and the status quo. He insists that there are ample existing laws of various quality that are unimplemented that would allow the sector to move forward. He insisted that this vital sector cannot wait until legislatures enshrine new laws and said the sector must utilise existing laws (such as investment law no 9 of 2010) which enable the private sector to invest.

The forum continues in its final day tomorrow.

The Second Libyan Real Estate Development Forum 5 to 6 February in Tunis

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By Sami Zaptia.

Libya has struggled for decades with rubbish collection and recycling (Photo: Tripoli rubbish. From archives by Tom Westcott).

London, 5 February 2020:

The Municipality of Al-Beida claims that it has received Libyas first waste recycling plant, the eastern-based LANA state news agency reported Saturday.

The Municipality said this was part of the eastern based Libyan governments wider efforts to recycle waste in the eastern region and solve the ongoing problem of accumulated roadside waste.

Al-Beida Municipality reported that the recycling plant would be installed in the coming days next to it main garbage dump. It envisioned that it will contribute effectively and radically to the elimination of the phenomenon of garbage accumulation in the municipality and reduce its possible negative impact on citizens health.

It is worth recalling that there are efforts across Libyas political divide east and west to resolve Libyas perennial waste collection problem.

In July 2019, Libyas eastern based Prime Minister Abdalla Thinni discussed with the director of a German company specialized in garbage recycling and the production of electricity generated by garbage recycling a process mechanism for implementing such garbage recycling programmes in Libya.

The German company was reportedly invited to submit proposals on a BOT basis for the project through the eastern Ministry of Local Government.

Meanwhile, in western Libya various projects for waste collection/recycling were announced last year by Tajura, Sug Juma and the Municipality of Central Tripoli as well as the city of Misrata.

Eastern Libya invites BOT offer from German company to recycle waste for energy production

Ministry of Local Government offers municipality-wide recycling contract

Libyas Meteorological Centre forecasts rain and warns of impending environmental and health pollution cost of uncollected garbage

Tajura waste recycling project launched

Misrata invites offers to recycle citys rubbish

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Sudan's capital Khartoum saw protests on Sunday in front of the UAE's embassy for Abu Dhabi's recruitment of Sudanese nationals as mercenaries fighting in Libya and Yemen.

According to the families of the victims, an Emirati firm called Black Shield offered Sudanese nationals jobs in the UAE as security guards for hospitals and malls, which was also revealed by Emirati Affairs Website,citing Al Jazeera Mubashar as saying one of the Sudanese victim families called on the country's transitional government to intervene after a member of the family was lured to the UAE and forced into a military training camp three months ago.

Sudanese social media platforms shared images of samples of contracts offered to Sudanese nationals to work as security guards in the UAE by the Black Shield security company; the documents have been stamped by the Emirati embassy in Khartoum, according to the report.The activists said the UAE firm had an agent I Khartoum and he helped recruit about 3000 to supposedly work as security guards in the UAE.

The Guardian reported on December 25, 2019 the involvement of UAE in transferring mercenaries to fight in Libya, saying a new wave had arrived to fight for Khalifa Haftar - Abu Dhabi's ally in Libya.

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TURKEY was accused of sending thousands of more jihadist mercenaries to support the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya yesterday, just two days after a Berlin peace conference.

Battle continued to rage between the countrys parallel governments, the Tripoli-based GNA and General Khalifa Haftars Benghazi-based Libyan National Army.

At least 28 of the mercenaries sent by Turkey were killed in the skirmishes in what was described as a humiliating defeat for the GNA and Libyas Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.

They were killed outside the Salah el-Din neighbourhood south of Tripoli, close to the international airport.

Seventeen of the Turkish-backed fighters arrived in Italy yesterday on their way to Libya where it is expected they will join almost 2,000 jihadists who were transferred to the country from Syria.

Ankara is reportedlyplanning to send 6,000 fighters to Libya, with around 1,790 recruits currently receiving training in the south of Turkey ahead of deployment.

Mercenaries enlisting in the Turkish operation are from the battlefields in Afrin, northern Syria, where they have been involved in fighting Kurdish forces as part of what has been described as President Recep Tayyip Erdogans ethnic cleansing operation.

Many of those recruited come from jihadist factions including the al-Mutasim Brigade, Sultan Murad Brigade, Northern Falcons Brigade, Hamzat, Legion of the Levant, Suleiman Shah and the Samarkand Brigade.

It is understood that the fighters are paid more than 1,000 per month and are hired on six-month contracts directly by the GNA. They have also been offered Turkish nationality.

One LNA fighter spoke to the Star from the front line and said that the presence of jihadists is why we are fighting and we are allowing Libya to become Kurdistan part II.

LNA commander Major General Salem Driaq said: The army has not abandoned the idea of entering the capitalTripoliand the city of Misurata, to complete its mission to eliminate armed militias and terrorist groups that have invaded Libya.

The Turkish operations come just days after a so-called peace conference in the German capital Berlin which agreed to uphold the UN arms embargo.

World leaders from 16 countries signed an agreement as UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres urged world powers to refrain from interference in the conflict.

The same powers bear responsibility for the quagmire in Libya which descended into chaos after a Nato-backed bombing campaign and the killing of Muammar Gadaffi in October 2011.

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