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5 Nigerian womenwere discovered to be partof the women captured andturned into sex slaves for months by ISIS.

The 5 Nigerians,2 children and 28 Eritreans wererescued by Libyan forces last December but made to face detention in a Misrata prison.

After the womenwere rescuedfrom Sirte, they were investigated for possible ties to the group and held for several months in a Misrata prison but have now beenreleased by Libyan authorities.

Then in mid-February, theLibyan attorney-generals office announced that it had cleared the women of any wrongdoing, but their release was delayed for several more weeks, with no explanation given.

The group reportedly escaped from Sirte, a former Islamic State stronghold in central Libya, when forces from the nearby city of Misrata battled to oust the militants late last year.

Some of the women were said to have been on their way to Europe when the Islamic State fighters kidnapped and held them as sex slaves.

Fortunately on Wednesday, they were all released andreceived by staff from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and the Libyan Red Crescent, before being taken to a shelter for medical check ups.

One 14-year-old Eritrean girl said:

Im very happy, I cant describe how I feel, but I am very happy, I can start a new life and see my family again, she told Reuters before leaving the prison with the rest of the group on a Red Crescent bus.

A UNHCR official said the entire group had scabies, but otherwise appeared to be in reasonable physical condition. The agency says it expects to resettle the Eritreans as refugees.

Samer Haddadin, head of the UNHCRs Libya mission said:

We will send them to a safe house where they can be treated if they need medical treatment, and receive assistance from us, and be protected. At the same time we will be processing them for refugee status determination and we are doing this to make sure we can find a resettlement country for those who meet the resettlement criteria.

Source: Reuters

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4/5/2017

SAN DONATO MILANESE, Milan -- Eni has made a new discovery of gas and condensates offshore Libya in the Gamma Prospect, in the Contract Area D, 140 km offshore from Tripoli, in Libya. The discovery, made through the well B1 16/3, is located 15 km south west of the Bouri field and 5 km north of the Bahr Essalam field. The drilling of the Gamma prospect is part of the near-field exploration strategy of Eni, targeting opportunities, that in case of success can exploit synergies with existing infrastructures reducing the time to market and providing additional gas to the local market and export.

The well, drilled in 150 m of water depth, reached a total depth of 2,981 m and encountered gas and condensates in the Metlaoui Group of Eocene age. The well has the capacity to deliver, in production configuration, in ecxess of 7,000 boepd and represents a further discovery made by Eni in Libyan offshore Area D, following the discoveries made in 2015.

Eni, through its subsidiary Eni North Africa BV, is operator of Contract Area D with a 100% working interest in the exploration phase. Eni has been present in Libya since 1959 and currently produces 350,000 boped in equity in the country.

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Foreign Ministry of UN-proposed Presidency Council has confirmed to Libyan embassies and consulates abroad that the current Governor of Central Bank of Libya Al-Sidiq Al-Kabir is still the legitimate person in charge of the bank and that any parallel institutions are illegal.

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A fire broke out at the cement factory in Zliten due to an electrical fault today. Three workers were wounded.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has received 27 Eritrean and Nigerian women from Misrata Rehabilitation Center. Thewomen were rescued by Misrata-led force during Sirte battle against ISIS.

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The second group of Dignity Operation wounded fighters left Benina Airbase in Benghazi for treatment in Italy on Wednesday.

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Sirte mayor Farj Al-Madani and his companions were released on Wednesday after 55 days of abduction.

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6.7 billion dollars were allocated for the private sector's importation transactions and 3.9 billion dollars for the public sector all as part of the 2017 importation budget that came in the meeting that was held in Tripoli by the UN-proposed government's prime ministry members.The meeting made the decision after discussing the proposals of the meetings that were co-chaired by Audit Bureau, Central Bank of Libya and Presidential Council.The meeting also recommended forming a committee that is tasked with monitoring the imported goods and foiling any smuggling attempts.

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The spokesman of Misrata municipality, Osama Badi told local media outlets that they have finalized the doctrine of peaceful coexistence that will be announced later on Thursday. The doctrine will include Sirte, Jufra, Bani Walid, Misrata, Zliten, Misallata, Al-Khums, Tarhouna and Qasir Al-Akhyar cities and districts. The step is aimed to establish social security and has been under preparation since September 2016.

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Rome - African migrants languishing in Libyan detention camps need to be "got out of there" as soon as possible, a senior aid official who has just visited some of them said Monday.

Arjan Hehenkamp, the director general of the Dutch branch of charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), told reporters in Rome he had been shocked by the squalid, oppressive conditions he had witnessed in Libya.

"These detention centres are essentially human warehouses," he said of the camps ostensibly under the authority of Libya's government of national unity, but in reality frequently controlled by different militia groups, with whom MSF has to negotiate access to provide basic medical services.

"People are abused, used, traded, extorted," he said.

European efforts to stem the flow of mainly African migrants travelling from Libya to Italy have recently focused on trying to get more of them repatriated to their countries of origin directly from the camps, while also trying to block their arrival in Libya.

Italy has agreed to try to bolster the Libyan coastguard so it can intercept and turn back boats leaving Libya.

And on Sunday Rome announced a deal with dozens of rival tribes in southern Libya on securing the southern border of the vast state.

But Hehenkamp said Libya in its current state could not be part of the solution.

"People (in the camps) have lost any form of control, they are at the mercy of their captors," he said.

"They can't talk but their eyes are pleading. After that, you only have one thing in mind: 'get them out of there, get them the heck out of there, let them escape'."

He added: "There is a necessity for a humanitarian evacuation for anyone who is a migrant in Libya, regardless of how and why they came in the first place."

Hehenkamp also voiced doubts about the possibility of organising large-scale voluntary repatriations.

"To call it voluntary is a mockery. On the other hand, anything else is probably better than staying in the detention camps," he said.

"They should be brought to places where they can be assisted, where they can recover, where there is a government with the capacity to take care (of them)."

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Tripoli - AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was released Monday after two days of detention, but his identity papers were confiscated and his situation remains highly uncertain.

Benghazi is controlled by the military authorities of Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya who contests the legitimacy of the Government of National Accord which is based in the capital Tripoli and is backed by the international community.

AFP management welcomed Doma's release but called on the authorities concerned to bring an end to the harassment of the photographer.

Detained by Benghazi's counterterrorism unit on Saturday evening while heading home, Doma was questioned about his photo coverage for AFP at a public event where young men and women had gathered at a university in the city on March 25.

The concert had been highly criticised by the Awqaf religious authorities of eastern Libya, which blasted the event as "offensive" to Islam, notably by encouraging mixing between men and women.

'Out of control'

The photographer was released "provisionally" without charge on the night of Sunday to Monday under pressure from other security services in Benghazi.

Doma presented himself at anti-terror headquarters on Monday, where he was forced to sign documents he had not been able to read beforehand.

He was able to leave the building thanks to an intervention by Benghazi special forces.

But the photographer has not been given back his identity documents, and a security source said he remained under threat of re-arrest.

A senior official from the eastern authorities told AFP on Monday that orders had been given at the highest level for all proceedings against Doma to be dropped.

But some members of the security services with Salafist leanings appear to be "out of control", the official said.

Doma had already been arrested last Tuesday evening before being freed some 24 hours later.

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