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    East Libyan forces launch air strike against rivals in central desert
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-li...-idUSKBN14F0QV
    Forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said they had carried out an air strike against opponents in the central Jufra region on Monday.

    Ahmed al-Mismari, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), said the strike had targeted a camp used by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), a force that the LNA has previously clashed with.

    The LNA and the BDB are on opposite sides of a conflict in which two loose and shifting alliances have battled for power in Libya since 2014, aligning themselves with rival governments in Tripoli and the east.

    In recent months the LNA, led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, has made military gains in Benghazi and Libya's Oil Crescent region, provoking several attempted counter-attacks by his rivals.


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    Under the control of the Tobruk-led Government and Libyan National Army

    Under the control of the Government of National Accord and Allies

    Under the control of the National Salvation Government

    Controlled by the Mujahedeen Councils of Derna, Benghazi and Adjabiya

    Control By Local Forces

    Controlled by Tuareg forces

    Military situation in Libya on 10 December 2016
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan...%80%93present)

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    Libya expects more oil production after pipeline reopening Dec. 22, 2016
    http://www.ogj.com/articles/2016/12/...reopening.html
    Libya’s National Oil Corp. said an oil pipeline that had been shut down for more than 2 years has reopened in western Libya.

    NOC estimated the reopening of the pipeline along with increasing production from two oil fields could supply an additional 270,000 b/d of crude oil within 3 months. The reopened oil fields were Sharara and El Feel.

    Libya’s current production fell to less than 300,000 b/d at times during 2016. Analysts noted that it remains uncertain if Libya will get additional oil to the world market. The nation’s oil production fell from a peak of more than 1.6 million b/d after Moammar Gadhafi death in 2011.

    Increased Libyan production could complicate an attempt by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries attempt to support oil prices. OPEC plans to cut cartel production by 1.2 million b/d starting in January 2017. Libya and Nigeria were exempted from that agreement.



    The fields could add 175,000 b/d to Libya’s output within 1 month, NOC estimated, adding that volume could grow to 270,000 b/d in 3 months. OPEC reported Libya produced almost 575,000 b/d during November.
    Libya oil production moves up to 685,000 bpd ! Jan 1

    NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanallah issued a news release saying the pipeline and fields were reopened without any “payoffs” or “backroom deals.”

    Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa and the tenth largest globally. Since 2011, when country's longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled, Libyan oil production had dropped from 1.65 million barrels per day to 250,000 in August 2016.

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    Military missions from several European countries, including Britain, have tried to curb the Libyan smuggling industry by intercepting and destroying the smugglers’ repurposed fishing trawlers after they leave Libyan waters.

    In this context, many claim the dangerous sea journey is the least worst option facing them, due to the dire situation in Libya. “A dead goat doesn’t fear the butcher’s knife,” quipped one person in Libya during an interview with the Guardian last year.
    A day on a refugee rescue ship: 'this job must be done, there must be no sinking'


    Many are kept in slavery-like conditions by their Libyan employers, while others are tortured or extorted, sometimes by the authorities. About 70% say they faced some kind of exploitation in Libya, according to research by the International Organisation for Migration.

    Some European politicians have previously argued that the Mediterranean rescue missions, stationed off the Libyan coast, encourage more people to risk the journey. But while many more would drown without the presence of the rescue boats, there is no evidence that their absence would drive down numbers.

    When EU-led rescue missions were suspended in early 2015, more migrants and refugees attempted the journey than ever before, and more drowned

    In response, the smugglers have simply turned to flimsy inflatable boats, which can be piloted by refugees themselves, and which are even more dangerous than the wooden trawlers. As a result, asylum seekers’ lives have been put at even greater risk – this year, roughly one in every 40 attempting to reach Italy by sea have died.

    Syrians appear to have stopped using the Libyan route. Most of the migrants and refugees this year have fled war and poverty in Nigeria and Sudan, or dictatorships in Eritrea and Gambia. Others are migrant workers who tried to find jobs in Libya but fled after a civil war broke out and law and order collapsed.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-mediterranean


    ibyan authorities deported 157 illegal African migrants on Thursday.

    The migrants are mostly from Mali and were hoping to make it to Europe via the Mediterranean. The deportations were organised in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration.
    Libya’s illegal immigration office has been working with various embassies to arrange for the safe return of the migrants.

    Last week authorities deported 140 migrants to Nigeria.

    This month, the European Union and Mali signed an agreement under which Mali will get funds to help create jobs and strengthen border management in return for its help in fighting people smugglers and accepting deportees from Europe.

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    Libya To Start Deporting Illegal Immigrants Back To Their Home Countries ( May 2015)

    n a tough move to stem the flow of illegal immigrants through Libya to Europe,one of the country’s main factional governments has resolved to start using armed guards to police Libya’s porous borders and to start deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries.

    A report by Malta Daily reveals that ‘Libya’s national salvation government of Tripoli has decided it will deport migrants in the North African country back to their home countries, in a high-level decision taken on Wednesday.

    The Islamist-led Libya Dawn, which contests the authority of the internationally-recognised government led by Abdullah al Thani in Tobruk, convened on Wednesday 6 May to purposely discuss “methods capable of ending this phenomenon.”
    The move was sparked by EU plans to seek a United Nations Security Council resolution to be able to carry out military attacks on Tripoli port in a bid to destroy smugglers’ boats.

    Thousands have died at sea trying to cross into Europe, prompting calls for wider search and rescue mandates.

    “The National Salvation Government is committed to take all necessary measures… of preventing the continuity of illegal immigration, and will adopt all deterring measures against the violators.”

    It also said that it would cooperate with the EU and neighbouring countries to stem the flow of migration from sub-Saharan Africa.

    In a statement, the Tripoli government said it had followed “with deep concern, the phenomenon of illegal immigration crossing through the Libyan territories into Europe generally and Italy particularly, leaving greater burdens suffered by the immigrants, leading in most cases to the drowning and death of vast numbers among them.”

    In a meeting with interim prime minister Khalifa alGhawi, Tripoli said it would assign the Illegal Immigration Authority to carry out the following:

    *Improvement of healthy and living conditions of detainees up until they are deported;
    *Finding convenient detention sites for women and children in particular;
    *Endeavour to deport the detainees to their home countries;
    *Address immigration source states, such as Mali, Niger and Somali, by the foreign ministry in order to cooperate in stopping the flow of immigrants to Libya through its southern borders;
    Deployment of armed troops to patrol the sites from where the immigrants travel.

    The measures effectively prevent migrants from securing any form of access to request asylum or other forms of protection.

    The high-level meeting included the minister of interior, minister of local government, leaders of security bodies, and governors from municipalities on the Mediterranean coast.

    The meeting resolved to set up “an operation chamber” to stem the flow of migrants.

    The EU’s external relations representative Federica Mogherini will on Monday seek a Security Council resolution to carry out the attacks on smugglers’ boats in Tripoli.

    But the move is expected to meet resistance from Russia, which has said it would veto any such military plans.

    Even Tobruk’s ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, has told AP that Libya rejected the EU plan and that his government “hasn’t even been consulted and rul[ed] out EU forces on Libyan soil ‘at this stage’… ‘We will not accept any boots on the ground’.”

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    Turkish police arrest man trying to sell $10m Gaddafi ivory dagger JUNE 2016
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...gaddafi-dagger



    urkish police have caught a man trying to sell a jewelled dagger allegedly pillaged from the palace of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, according to the state-run news agency.

    Police confiscated the carved ivory dagger encrusted with rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds during a raid in the Istanbul suburb of Esenyurt, the Anadolu agency reported.

    Alongside the dagger, police found a studded sheath and an ornate base decorated with lion figurines.

    A businessman, who allegedly bought the dagger for $4.6m (£3.2m) in Libya three months ago, and two suspected accomplices were detained in an anti-smuggling operation.

    The businessman was caught trying to sell the dagger to a Saudi national for $10m.

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    Gaddafi’s golden gun could be a gateway to riches
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...bb6-1483314509



    Nothing moves fast in Libya. Five years on, the reverberations of the revolution have yet to play out, and the desert, distances and divisions of this country combine to ensure that there is time enough for some serious war tourism.

    And so it is that I find myself in the back of a Toyota Land Cruiser in Misratah with Muammar Gaddafi’s golden gun in my hands.

    I am not a gun freak, but there is an undeniable fascination to golden guns and their human folly: the mix of power, wealth, vanity and violence.
    here was no doubt, however, that the 9mm Browning Hi-Power passed to me in Misratah last week by Mohammed Elbibi, 22, was indeed the weapon that slipped from Gaddafi’s grasp in the final minutes of his life.

    Mr Elbibi’s ownership of it has given him a degree of fame that began when he was photographed on October 20, 2011, holding the gun on the shoulders of fighters in Sirte. Many thought he had killed the tyrant, though he said: “I didn’t do it, I was just there.”

    Omran Shaaban, a fighter filmed grabbing Gaddafi from a culvert, died in a NATO airstrike in 2012 and may well have taken the killer’s identity to his grave. In the uncertain currents of today’s Libya, no one wants to advertise their role in the dictator’s death.

    Mr Elbibi, then just 17 but already twice wounded, ignored the crowd raging around their captive, and walked away to examine Gaddafi’s blasted convoy. “I found the pistol in the sand beside Gaddafi’s car,” he said simply, handing me the weapon, its walnut grip embossed with a profile of Libyan *national hero Omar Mukhtar.

    Mr Elbibi said he had no intention of taking up arms in the war against Islamic State. “No way!” he said, tracing shrapnel scars on one shoulder. “I want to travel, hang out, listen to music. I’ve had enough war.”

    Two years ago, he said, he was offered 400,000 Libyan dinars ($385,000) by a man representing Gaddafi’s surviving family in exile to buy back the golden gun. “I didn’t fight for our freedom just to sell Gaddafi’s gun back to his family, so I decided to hold on to it, no matter how much they offered.”

    Collectors should not give up hope, though. Everything has its price, and as we continued talking of the day Gaddafi died, Mr Elbibi returned to the subject of the gun’s value. “Now you’ve got me thinking again about how much its worth,” said. “Maybe I’ll think again about selling it one day.”

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    'Monkey attack' on girl sparks deadly clan clashes in Libya
    21 November 2016


    Violence erupted in the southern city of Sabha
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-20-ki...ous&yptr=yahoo
    At least 20 people have died and another 50 have been injured in clashes between two clans in southern Libya after a pet monkey attacked a group of schoolgirls, according to reports on Monday (21 November).
    Violence erupted in the southern city of Sabha between the Awlad Suleiman and Guedadfa clans, which escalated to the use of "tanks, mortars and other heavy weapons", reported Reuters. The pet monkey that belonged to a shopkeeper reportedly pulled off one girl's headscarf as well as scratching and biting her as they passed by.

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    In January this year, an Islamist government called the General National Congress (GNC) was elected to power in Tripoli.
    Over the course of the next few months, the security situation in Libya dramatically deteriorated, with radical Islamist groups allegedly being funded by the GNC. Several high profile assassinations and kidnappings were blamed on such groups.
    In May Khalifa Haftar, a western-educated general in the Libyan Army declared a new military campaign called “Operation Dignity” against Islamist forces. Many units within the armed forces rallied to his call and began to be engaged in heavy fighting with Islamist groups within the eastern city of Benghazi.
    As part of Operation Dignity, Haftar-aligned forces took control of Tripoli and disbanded the GNC, calling snap elections.
    These elections resulted in a large anti-Islamist groundswell, which caused their numbers to be massively reduced in the new provisional government.
    In response to this electoral defeat, in July armed Islamist militias from Misrata launched “Operation Dawn”, a military campaign which resulted in them retaking the capital Tripoli after more than a month of devastating fighting around Tripoli’s main airport.
    Operation Dawn then reinstated the GNC declaring the previous government void.
    In October Haftar-backed Operation Dignity forces in Benghazi step up their campaign against Islamists in and around Benghazi, and see some success clearing the central portion of the city.
    Around the same time, Islamist groups based in the city of Derna declared their allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), calling themselves Wilayat Libya.
    Finally, in November, Operation Dignity forces conducted air strikes against targets in Tripoli, signalling the start of an all-out war between the GNC and General Haftar’s forces.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...%80%93present)

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    Robbers make off with priceless Treasure of Benghazi after drilling into underground vault at Libyan bank
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4UZY2mqOS


    Silver didrachm, part of The Treasure of Benghazi collection have been stolen by looters in Libya

    A gang of Libyan looters have raided a priceless collection of gold and silver coins that are believed to date back to the time of Alexander the Great.


    The thieves carried off with the pieces, known as The Treasure of Benghazi, having drilled through a concrete ceiling at the National Commercial Bank of Benghazi.

    An expert has described the raid as 'one of the greatest thefts in archeological history.'

    Alongside the coins, several artefacts, including monuments and figurines of bronze, glass and ivory, as well as jewellery, bracelets and medallions, are also believed to have been seized by the thieves


    Jan.2015 - Tobruk based ( Hiftar) Fighters seize Bengazi National Commerce Bank @ left of pic

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    Libya in total power blackout warning after fuel pipeline is shut off by protestors Jan 9th
    https://www.libyaherald.com/2017/01/...by-protestors/
    he General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) has warned that there could be a total blackout in Libya’s electricity network if today’s blockade of the main fuel pipeline continues. The blockade is believed to be by fuel smugglers.

    The warning came in a GECOL written statement published by the GNA’s Media Office.

    The statement reveals that ‘‘a number of individuals shut down the main valve of the main natural gas pipeline feeding Zawia power station’’.

    ‘‘This has led to the loss of a large part of the power generation of this (Zawia) station as a result of having to use liquid fuel. This has increased the generation deficit and the hours of power cuts. It has also led to a total blackout in some areas.’’

    GECOL went on to warn that ‘‘if this closure of the gas feeding pipeline continues for more than three days, the power station will cease generating power as a result of the lack of availability of liquid fuel at its storage tanks. This could lead to a total blackout of the whole of Libya’s network’’.

    Without naming anyone or any group specifically, GECOL called on ‘‘all to accept responsibility’’ and ‘‘intervene in order to find a solution to the crisis before the occurrence of a catastrophe and before the country enters a total blackout’’.

    The shutdown of the pipeline feeding the Zawia power station comes on the background of a concerted media attack by the chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla, and lately and to a lesser extent, by the Government of National Accord (GNA).

    Sanalla had accused the Western Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) Nasr brigade and its leader Mohamed Kashlaf, securing the Zawia refinery, of domestic and international fuel smuggling.

    This unprecedented public naming and shaming by an official led to the Nasr brigade withdrawing from the refinery, which the NOC welcomed.

    For its part, the GNA followed up the Sanalla initiatives by announcing a series of measures. It warned that the Libyan Coast Guard will stop and seize any fuel-smuggling vessel approaching the Libyan coast without prior authorization.

    It will also refer lists of smugglers to the judiciary and it will issue arrest warrants through Interpol. Lists of ships implicated in smuggling will also be referred to international maritime organizations for further action. Ultimately, the GNA warned that it might be forced into closing and declaring a force majeure at fuel smuggling ports.

    There have also been unconfirmed reports not far from Zawia of at least two incidents of smugglers’ fuel tanker trucks on their way to the border being shot at or destroyed by vigilante militias. The vigilante militias have declared that they will be mounting an operation against fuel smugglers.

    As a result of all this, the fuel smugglers in the city of Zawia are believed to be flexing their muscles in the city, pressurizing various parties in an effort to reverse the actions of Sanalla and the GNA.

    There have been various unconfirmed reports of a number of threats and counter measures the smugglers intend to take. These include a threat to close the coastal road to Tripoli. The closure of the fuel pipeline to Zawia power station is believed to be one of their measures..

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    Tripoli is ranked as world’s second worst city
    https://www.libyaherald.com/2017/01/...nd-worst-city/
    Tripoli has been ranked the world’s second worst city in which to live, behind Damascus.

    The UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit’s “Global Liveability Ranking” assesses 140 different cities. Among the measurements taken are healthcare, education, infrastructure, safety and the threat of terrorism.

    “Although few could currently argue that Damascus and Tripoli are likely to attract visitors,” said the EIU, “ their inclusion in the survey reflects cities that were deemed relatively stable just a few years ago.”

    Right behind Tripoli in the nine worst cities league was Lagos, followed by Dhaka in Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby and then Algiers. The other three were Karachi, Harare and Douala in Cameroon.

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    Tripoli, Libya - Medina and Harbor. Turkish Fort, Serai al-Hamra, center right. Corniche circles shoreline

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