Thursday 6th December 2012 The number of Syrian refugees seeking sanctuary in Libya last month shot up to over 1,300 people, according to figures released by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. In September just 75 Syrian refugees were registered by UNHCR but in November the figure increased to 1,378. In Tripoli 402 new cases were recorded, with a further 976 [ Read More ]
Thursday 6th December 2012 Maltese premier Lawrence Gonzi is due in Tripoli tomorrow, Friday, to meet with Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. He will be accompanied on the five-hour visit by an as yet unnamed delegation of Maltese ministers. They will have separate talks with their Libyan counterparts. No details as to the nature of any the discussions have been given [ Read More ]
December 2012 Malta is hoping to open a consulate in Misrata. It would be the first foreign consulate in the city, which is fast turning into reality its ambitions to become the business capital of Libya. “We would like to do this as quickly as possible”, Malta’s Ambassador Victor Camilleri told the Libya Herald. The new consulate would deal with the usual [ Read More ]
December 2012 Only a day after being elected leader of Italy’s opposition centre-left Democratic Party on Sunday, Pier Luigi Bersani flew to Tripoli for talks with the president of Congress Mohamed Magarief and other political figures on joint relations. The whirlwind visit by the man widely expected to become Italy’s next prime, minister both surprised and pleased Libyan officials seeing [ Read More ]
December 2012 A Turkish business delegation of 25 companies from the Tumsiad Industrial and Businessmen Association visited the Tripoli Chamber of Commerce and the Libyan Businessmen Council yesterday. The 25 companies were in the clothes, cloth, furniture, printing and advertising, contracting, olive presses, construction material, kitchenware, road drainage, car accessories, decoration, perfumes, makeup, cleaning materials, doors, cement mixers, energy and [ Read More ]
December 2012 One of the only known suspects held in the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya wants any interrogation by the FBI to take place in a Tunisian judge’s office with his attorneys present, one of his lawyers said Wednesday. The Sept. 11 assault by armed men in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stephens [ Read More ]
December 2012 Libya’s Economic and Social Development Fund is withdrawing investments from French banks including BNP Paribas SA (BNP) and Societe Generale SA (GLE) as it shifts attention to its home market. The state-held fund, which has $12 billion in assets, had about $10 billion invested outside the oil-rich nation, fund chairman Mahmoud Badi said in a speech at a conference in Dubai today. [ Read More ]
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