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Media In Libya: Drastic Changes In The New Libya – Video
Media In Libya: Drastic Changes In The New Libya
The media in Libya has witnessed a giant leap in the last two years. According to authorities, there are more than 300 registered newspapers of which 176 are operating, in addition to 32 radio...
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6B from Libya – Freestyle – Beatbox Battle TV – Video
6B from Libya - Freestyle - Beatbox Battle TV
Watch the exclusive beatboxing freestyle of 6B rom Libya. He showed up a funky vocal drum routine in a audio recording studio in Tripolis for #BBB3TV BBBTV = BEAT BOX BATTLE TELEVISION ...
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Libya Targets Bombardier CSeries Order, Examines Boeing 737 Max
Libya said its negotiating an order for six Bombardier Inc. (BBD/B) CSeries planes and is also in contact with Boeing Co. (BA) about the re-engined 737 amid surging demand for air travel three years after the toppling of Muammar Qaddafi.
Libyan Airlines aims to swap eight Bombardier CRJ900 turboprops for a mix of CS100 and CS300 jets, and sister carrier Afriqiyah Airways is in talks on the 737 Max as it seeks 10 planes to replace Airbus Group NV (AIR) A320s, said Ali Elayan, general manager of Libyan African Aviation Holding Co.
Theres a lot of outbound and inbound traffic, Elayan said in a telephone interview from Tripoli. The Libyans are doing better financially and traveling for both leisure and business. It was unexpected after the revolution.
Load factors at the airlines are above 80 percent, a level of occupancy comparably with top-performing European carriers. Libya is also investing in airport capacity, with international and domestic terminals in the capital and second-city Benghazi 20 percent complete, and 14 airports around the country being fitted out with new ground equipment, Elayan said.
Bombardier executives will arrive in Tripoli on May 15 to continue discussions with Libyan Airlines on a CSeries accord involving six orders and four options, though there is no deal confirmed, he said. The executive said he has confidence in the Canadian aircraft even after program delays.
Talks with manufacturers should be completed this year, with funding likely to be via local bank loans, he said. The short-haul jets will be used on Mediterranean and North African routes and also to Europe should Libyas civil aviation authority broker the lifting of a ban on its carriers, he said.
Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways have a combined 31 aircraft, including five long-haul A330s, of which two more are due for delivery. The North African nation has plans for routes to New York, Montreal and Guangzhou in China using the Airbus wide-bodies, and is awaiting flying rights, he added.
The holding company also expects 10 Airbus A350s to arrive from 2019 and will raise $1 billion for payment in installments starting next year, Elayan said.
Libya has big ambitions for the future, the fleets are available, and there will be big developments, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Deena Kamel Yousef in Dubai at dhussein1@bloomberg.net
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Jordan's Ambassador, Freed in Libya, Returns Home
Jordan's ambassador to Libya who was abducted last month at gunpoint in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, returned home on Tuesday after being freed by his captors.
Ambassador Fawaz al-Etan was welcomed at Amman's military airport by jubilant family members who hugged and kissed him and top Jordanian officials, including Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh who hours earlier announced the diplomat's release.
Al-Etan waved to reporters as he stepped out of the plane at the Marka military airfield east of Amman.
He said he was in good health, ready and eager to return to his post in Libya, and that his captors had treated him well. He gave no further details about his ordeal and captivity.
Al-Etan was taken by gunmen from his vehicle in central Tripoli near the Jordanian Embassy on April 15. Assailants opened fire on his car, wounded his driver and then forced him out at gunpoint.
It was one the latest high-profile abduction in the North African nation still plagued by lawlessness, more than two years since the country's 8-month civil war ended with Moammar Gadhafi's killing in October 2011.
A week after the ambassador's abduction, Jordan released a Libyan detainee, Mohammed al-Darsi, who was arrested and convicted in 2007 of trying to carry out a suicide bombing at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport.
Jordanian officials at the time would not say whether the Libyan detainee's release was connected to al-Etan's abduction. But Libyan media reported at the time that Jordan had agreed to set free a convicted militant in exchange for the ambassador.
According to a Libyan official, al-Darsi arrived in Tripoli on Monday on a special plane from Amman.
The same Jordanian aircraft took the ambassador home on Tuesday, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media.
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