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Zawia refinery reported operating normally again after attack by militia

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Zawia refinery and its pumping station were said to be back to normal after an attack yesterday by an armed Group. According to the National Oil Corporation, the group forced their way into the refinery’s pumping control early yesterday afternoon and compelled staff to stop pumping fuel through the pipeline to the Tripoli oil depot. Imposing a siege on the refinery, they also prevented trucks taking fuel to the capital.Both diesel and petrol supplies were affected.Warning that the action would result in fuel shortages in both Tripoli and the Jebel Nafusa, the NOC later said that as an emergency measure it would be diverting tankers importing fuel to Tripoli port rather than Zawia.It also warned that it was planning legal action against those responsible and called for national solidarity against them.This afternoon, however, it was reported that following negotiations the siege had been lifted and that the situation was back to normal.

 

Italy donates 1 million euros to conflict-ridden areas in Libya

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The UNICEF said on Friday that Italy had donated € 1 million to support a multi-sector program in Libya. The program will focus on children and their families in the conflict-hit regions including Sabha and Benghazi. According to a statement by the UN Support Mission in Libya, the contribution will assist in creating child-friendly spaces to enable the affected children to continue their education in a conducive learning environment, despite the conflict and displacement in the east and south.“Taking care of children, as well as their security and the one of their family, is the best investment for the future of Libya. Our commitment and support to UNICEF in Libya demonstrates the strong will of the Italian Cooperation to support the stabilization and ongoing peace process in that country”, said Flavio Lovisolo, Regional BUREAU Director, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania.

Tobruk water crisis said to be imminent

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Tobruk’s sole working water treatment plant is on the verge of collapse meaning that some 400,000 people could in the town could soon be without safe drinking water. The town’s problems are nothing new. It has long been short of water.But since 2015 outdated and poorly maintained equipment has been threatening disaster. The steam desalination plant is currently working at only ten percent capacity.But now the boss of the water plant Fatalla Selim is warning that he is running out of chemicals needed to make water potable. Selim told the Turkish broadcaster TRT that for over a year he had been pressing for funds to buy new supplies but, he said,  “no one is listening”.Tobruk municipality has been looking at digging new wells and even building a brand new desalination plant able to produce 150,000 cubic metres of water daily. But with no central funding and no way to raise the money itself, such schemes have remained pie in the sky.

7th London Conference on Libya Rules out Military Solution

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London hosted a meeting on Thursday to support the political process in Libya and back the efforts of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his special envoy Ghassan Salame.The foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the United Nations envoy to Libya attended the meeting.“Libya is a front line in our common struggle against terrorism and illegal migration and we all share a vital interest in that country’s stability. Our shared goal is to break the political deadlock and rally behind the United Nations envoy Ghassan Salame as he seeks to bring all sides together,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said during a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.The Italian foreign ministry said in a statement that the London meeting discussed the status of the political process in Libya and exchanged views on how to support the work of the United Nations in light of the meeting to be convened by the UN Secretary-General on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York next week.Meanwhile, the UN Security Council extended on Thursday for one year the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), focused on supporting the North African country’s political process and key national institutions, as well as coordination of international assistance.

Mattarella says Italy doing its part alone on Libya

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Italian President Sergio Mattarella, speaking from Malta at a summit of European heads of state on the migrant crisis, said Italy is ‘doing its part, without any help’ to manage the migrant problem in Libya, adding that he was making the comment ‘without any ‘polemic force”. Mattarella said that with the closure of the Balkan route, the main route is that of Africa.’The duty to work on conditions in refugee camps is everyone’s, even international organisations,’ he said.Mattarella said a simple ‘closure would be unmanageable and only the European Union as a whole can efficiently manage the readmission, reception of those who have a right to it in the entire Union, and only the EU can manage accords with countries of origin of migrant flows’.

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