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Libyan government faction signs reconstruction deal with international consortium – Global Construction Review

Libyas Ministry of Investment has signed an agreement with Chinese, British, French, and German companies to reconstruct the countrys cities once the countrys 12-year-long civil war is over.

According to the Libya Herald, the agreement was signed between the Government of National Stability, based in the eastern city of Sirte and led by Fathi Bashagha, and the BFI Management Consortium.

A source at the Tripoli-based Libyan Railways told the Libya Herald that the agreement had no involvement from the Tripoli-based Aldabaiba regime.

BFI Management is led by China Railways and includes China Overseas Engineering Group, French engineer Alcatel-Lucent, British consulting engineer Arup, and German tunnelling specialist Herrenknecht.

BFIs chairman Saleh Atia Ibrahim said on the consortiums website that its job would be to rebuild transport, water and healthcare infrastructure.

The Libyan people have aspirations for peace, tranquillity and mutual respect throughout their nation, he said. This post-conflict recovery project will underpin and stimulate the peace with economic activity, growth and development for their, and their Nations benefit.

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UNDP’s Local Peacebuilding and Resilience programme in … – Libya Herald

Further to the UNDP and Libyas Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Local Government launching the Local Peacebuilding and Resilience programme in southern Libya on 10 May, the Director of the International Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Planning, Taher Al-Baour, provided further details on the project.

Speaking exclusively to Libya Herald, he explained that the programme aims to build local peace and recovery for the residents of the south to benefit and improve services for nearly 400,000 Libyan citizens.

It also aims to implement 100 development projects, provide 5,000 jobs, involve 70 companies from the private sector in new partnerships, and work on 25 projects aimed at the return of the displaced from several cities in the south of Libya.

Compatible with Libyas strategic development plansHe said this programme was compatible with the strategic plans for development in Libya and constitutes one of the national priorities that contribute to the distribution of joint programmes with the United Nations and Libya to the most affected, fragile and marginalized cities and regions in the south.

Al-Baour said this programme is important to solve some of the ongoing crises in southern Libya, especially the areas that have witnessed multiple conflicts and unrest and neglect over the past decades.

It is worth noting that the UNDP is working to establish sustainable peace and strengthen the local economy in southern Libya by supporting the authorities to provide basic services and create job opportunities for youth and women.

UNDP launches Local Peacebuilding and Resilience programme in southern Libya (libyaherald.com)

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Libya: Why The High Council Of State (HCS) Wants To Develop … – Eurasia Review

The High Council of State (HCS) discussed political and security developments in Libya, including what it described as the divergence of the Government of National Unity (GNU) from the roadmap devised in the Geneva forum. The country faces a lack of transparency, its failure to be subject to accountability sessions or hearings, and its violations towards the legislative competencies of the existing councils, which included the statement of oil production, its expenditures, and revenues, in addition to the opening of the real estate registry, which was closed by a law from the Transitional Council, and its failure to carry out the preliminary procedures for elections, especially with regard to purifying the registry, which was committed by the GNU by signing long-term agreements that are binding for the Libyan state.

A Libyan mobile phone was hacked. At first, the system was operating normally, but after the countrys development was discussed by Parliament, the company was hacked. But the Telecom Holding Company denied any data leakage related to the users of a company, but the company was subjected to electronic attacks, and the company explained that the data that was attacked was related to the internal system of the employees within it and not the call log or the social networking accounts of the users. We can see from this that the government used new technology to control the country.

The company has formed a cybersecurity team to confront such attacks and protect the data of Libyan citizens, but the power of the government and militias is much greater than the power of the internal system. The Libyan website was hacked. Hackers seized data related to financial and accounting documents, personal information, passport data, auditor reports, strategic information, marketing data, and non-disclosure documents. And contracts from the Libyan company, a record of correspondence and conversations with the companys management.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued four new secret arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed in Libya, he applied for two additional arrest warrants, but the judges have not yet decided on these two requests. The memoranda are currently being adhered to, stating that a team from the International Criminal Court will visit Libya in the coming days to discuss opening an office for the International Criminal Court in coordination with the Libyan authorities, stressing that the International Criminal Court is in contact with the families of the victims and survivors of violations in Libya and that the International Court sent 20 missions and collected more than 500 pieces of evidence, including audio clips, videos, and satellite images documenting war crimes in Libya. The International Criminal Court confirmed that the Libyan government of national unity must cooperate with the International Criminal Court.

On adherence to the arms embargo in Libya, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antnio Guterres, affirmed his appreciation for the continued efforts of the European Union, under mandates from the Security Council, and that all Libyan, regional, and international parties take the necessary steps to ensure strict compliance with the arms embargo and the full implementation of the ceasefire agreement, including the action plan and the withdrawal of mercenaries, foreign fighters, and foreign forces.

In accordance with paragraph 24 (b) of resolution 1973 (2011), the Security Council authorized the Panel of Experts to collect, examine, and analyze this information and to provide reports to the Council, relevant partners, and stakeholders, in particular the Libyan authorities that remain important in the implementation of authorizations. That all member states can complete the efforts of Operation IRINI through inspection in their territories, including at ports and airports, of goods destined for or coming from Libya.

Focusing on training and building the capacity of members of the Libyan Coast Guard and Navy, as well as Libyan port and customs authorities, in accordance with the arms embargo, and the inclusion of safeguards to protect human rights, are important in this regard.

The Libyan Ministry of Interior also announced that the ministrys border guards succeeded in rescuing 62 migrants near the Libyan-Tunisian border after they got lost in the desert.

The ministry confirmed that the desert security patrols of the border guards, which are in charge of securing the Libyan-Tunisian border with a length of 200 km, rescued the migrants from Ras Jedir to Wazen, and that the rescued migrants were of different nationalities, and the government found them in separate groups in the desert, and health care was provided. They were detained at the security border crossing until they were referred to the specialized authorities.

In the end, chaos is still going on in Libya, including oil, security, and illegal immigration, so the parliament must demand legislation on the internal security file.

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Libya Official Deplores Jailing Of Tunisian Opposition Leader – Barron’s

The head of a Libyan legislative body on Tuesday deplored the "return of dictatorship" in neighbouring Tunisia, expressing solidarity with a jailed opposition leader and high-profile critic of President Kais Saied.

Khaled el-Mechri is president of Libya's Tripoli-based High Council of State, which is the equivalent of a senate in the country split between a nominally interim government in Tripoli and an eastern administration backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

In a message on social media, Mechri deplored the detention in Tunisia "of the speaker of the parliament elected by the people, the thinker Rached Ghannouchi, because of an opinion he expressed".

"This absurd development bears witness to the return of dictatorship, of injustice and suppression of free expression in Tunisia," Mechri said. "Ghannouchi, you are not alone."

A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced Ghannouchi to a year in prison on terrorism-related charges after he was earlier accused of calling police officers "tyrants."

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His Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party condemned the sentence as "an unjust political verdict."

The case was one of several levied by authorities against Ghannouchi, whose party was the largest in parliament before Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021 as part of a power grab allowing him to rule by decree.

Ghannouchi was detained and remanded in custody in April after remarks warning that eradicating different viewpoints such as the left or political Islam might lead to a "civil war".

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Tunisia was the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings in the region more than a decade ago.

His arrest was the latest against Saied's opponents and drew international concern from the European Union, the United States and Germany.

Saied rejected such criticism as "flagrant interference."

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In Libya, which has seen more than a decade of stop-start conflict since the 2011 revolt that toppled strongman Moamer Kadhafi, presidential and legislative elections set for December 2021 have still not taken place.

A rival to the senate which Mechri heads, the House of Representatives, sits in Libya's east.

His declarations risk creating tensions with Tunisia.

Tripoli-based interim Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah visited Tunis late last year in a move aimed at warming ties with Saied's government.

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Libyan poultry breeders and egg producers participate in US … – Libya Herald

A group of leading Libyan poultry breeders and egg producers are participating in the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) buyers function in Casablanca, Morocco from 14 to 17 May. The visit by the Libyan delegation was coordinated by AmCham Libyas Tripoli-based president, Debbie Hirst.

The purpose of this buyers function is to bring together US poultry exporters and African buyers under one roof so that they have opportunities to meet one to one to discuss, and hopefully, generate business.

The buyers are not only from North Africa but from all of Africa. There will be around 23 US poultry supply companies. In total it is expected that around 100 people at the event. Half of the first day is presentations. The rest of the time and remaining days are purely one-to-one meetings. Each US supplier will have a station. A trade reception will be held on one of the evenings.

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