Fezzan municipalities council has called in a statement on the Government of National Unity (GNU) to hold an emergency meeting on the situation in the south, conveying after a meeting in Sabha on Saturday ten demands to the GNU and the House of Representatives (HoR) nearly two weeks after the Bent Bayah fuel tanker truck explosion that killed 23 and injured scores.
The final exams for the Secondary Education Certificate (SEC) kicked off Sunday across the country.
112,956 male and female students throughout Libya are setting their exams for all major disciplines, scientific, literary and religious studies.
Minister of Education, Musa Al-Maqrif, reassured the students taking the exams that the questions would take into account the different levels, and would cover what has been studied during the school year, and the curricula used.
The Libyan Center for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences has called for declaring the state of emergency to confront and reduce the expected drought and provide an alternative solution for water shortages.
In a statement, the center said that the negative impact of climate change is closer than ever.
A three-year old girl has died after being stung by a scorpion, in Tahala, north of Ghat, south west of the country.
Tahala Health Center, stated that the girl was transferred to Ghat General Hospital in a critical condition, before she was transferred to several other health centers due to lack of doctors and unpreparedness of intensive care units.
US-based Foreign Policy magazine has reported that the landmark US Foreign Aid Pilot Program, which was passed nearly three years ago, has hit a roadblock amid an impasse between Congress and the Biden administration over where to start funding these foreign aid programs.
The Global Fragility Act, passed by Congress in December 2019, was rejected by Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who objected to the US administration’s plan to begin Global Fragility Act pilot programs in Libya and Haiti.
The Government of National Unity’s State Minister for Economic Affairs, Salama Al-Ghwail, has said that the political and institutional divisions taking place in Libya directly affect the signed international agreements, rendering them ineffective, especially in light of the varied areas of control.
Al-Ghwail described all the signed agreements as mere ‘ashes in the eyes’ as he put it, and that they cannot be activated in the absence of a genuine project.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah confirmed that the economy was liberalized in some aspects after the February 17, 2011 revolution, but this liberalization was not rationalized, reaffirming the need to regulate and rationalize the relationship between the private and public sectors.
