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Jun
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Spanish charity rescues 117 migrants sailing from Libya

Spanish charity rescues 117 migrants sailing from Libya

NEWS
SPANISH charity Open Arms said it rescued 117 migrants on Saturday crowded onto a precarious wooden boat from Libya in the latest such perilous crossing over the Mediterranean Sea. Last week's shipwreck off Greece, killing at least 78 among hundreds packed onto a fishing boat, has shone a light once again on the deaths of thousands of migrants each year fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Open Arms said in a statement that it had picked up 117 people on Saturday, including 25 women and a three-year-old boy, mainly from Eritrea, Sudan and Libya. The rescue operation…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region – and across the world

Sudan’s conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region – and across the world

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SUDAN, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries, including the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Author JOHN MUKUM MBAKU, Professor, Weber State University The conflict might also affect countries further afield, including the US, Russia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, which have close economic ties with Sudan. It could destabilise the Sahel region and the Horn of Africa and jeopardise US interests in…
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Apr
26
2023
By The African Mirror
Social media now trumps traditional family networks in Libya – my Facebook survey reached 446,000 women

Social media now trumps traditional family networks in Libya – my Facebook survey reached 446,000 women

NEWS
WHEN I told my family and friends I intended to pursue a PhD researching HIV awareness among married women in Libya, my home country, the reaction was not encouraging: “You’d be lucky to even get members of your family to respond,” said one. They weren’t being unnecessarily pessimistic but rather managing my expectations, considering I was not only researching HIV awareness in a conservative country often perceived as oppressive, but I was also looking to recruit women. Author ABIER HAMIDI, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University Historically, Libyan women have been placed under severe social and…
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Mar
26
2023
By The African Mirror
Almost all missing uranium in Libya now accounted for

Almost all missing uranium in Libya now accounted for

NEWS
MOST of the roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently declared missing from a site in Libya have been found at that site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog told member states in a statement seen by Reuters. The International Atomic Energy Agency informed member states in a similar confidential statement on March 15 first reported by Reuters that 10 drums containing the UOC had gone missing from a Libyan site not under government control. While the amount of fissile material is less than that required for a nuclear bomb and would need to go through processes known as conversion and…
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Jan
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Libya’s $8-billion gas deal with Italy

Libya’s $8-billion gas deal with Italy

NEWS
GAVIN JONES  ITALIAN energy company Eni and Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) signed an $8 billion gas production deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country. The deal, signed during a visit to Tripoli by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, aims to increase gas output for the Libyan domestic market as well as exports, through the development of two offshore gas fields. Output will begin in 2026 and reach a plateau of 750 million cubic feet per day, Eni said in a statement. "This agreement will enable important investments…
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Jan
14
2023
By The African Mirror
CIA chief makes rare visit to Libya

CIA chief makes rare visit to Libya

NEWS
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief William Burns made a rare trip to Libya, meeting Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah in Tripoli, the Libyan government said. Dbeibah's Government of National Unity announced the visit on its Facebook page, posting a picture of Burns and Dbeibah together. Two sources close to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, who is based in Benghazi, said Burns had also met with him. The CIA, which does not regularly announce such visits, declined to comment. Libya has had little peace since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011, and the country split in 2014 between warring eastern and western…
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Jul
20
2022
By The African Mirror
Libya’s NOC chief rejects challenges to his appointment

Libya’s NOC chief rejects challenges to his appointment

NEWS
LIBYA'S new National Oil Corporation (NOC) chief Farhat Bengdara rejected challenges to his appointment as most of the company's major subsidiaries publicly acknowledged his leadership and work at some shuttered fields and ports resumed. Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) appointed Bengdara last week to replace veteran NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla, prompting Sanalla and the eastern-based parliament to reject the decision. The parliament does not recognise the GNU and analysts say the standoff over control of government risks becoming a dispute over the NOC that could lead to splits in a company globally recognised…
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Jul
16
2022
By The African Mirror
Libya’s oil chief ignores govt’s dismissal

Libya’s oil chief ignores govt’s dismissal

NEWS
THE head of Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) rejected the prime minister's authority to sack him, raising the prospect of an open struggle for control of the state energy producer. In a furious televised speech, Mustafa Sanalla said Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah's mandate to govern had expired and warned him not to touch NOC. An armed force deployed outside the NOC building later in the day, three witnesses said. One of them said the force was aligned with Dbeibah. A spokesperson for the Government of National Unity, which is headed by Dbeibah, was not immediately available for comment. Libya's messy…
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Jul
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest

Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest

NEWS
AHMED ELUMAMI and AYMAN AL-WARFALI WHEN the power cut out in Libya's Benghazi last week, Haitham al-Ghoul dashed into the street with his five-year-old son Othman to find somewhere to plug in a respirator the child needs to ease asthma attacks. A photograph of Ghoul hugging Othman on the street with the respirator hooked up to a shop's private generator soon went viral on Libyan social media networks, symbolising a power crisis that has infuriated Libyans across political divides. "We suffer a lot from power cuts in Benghazi. I'm just one of many cases," Ghoul said. Frustration at power cuts…
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Jul
05
2022
By The African Mirror
UN rights mission finds ‘probable’ mass graves in Libya

UN rights mission finds ‘probable’ mass graves in Libya

NEWS
EMMA FARGE and ANGUS MCDOWALL A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said there are "probable mass graves" yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching. The report to be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council this week details how a militia run by seven brothers executed and imprisoned hundreds of people between 2016-2020, sometimes keeping them in tiny oven-like structures called "the boxes" which were set alight during interrogations. The evidence of kidnappings, murder and torture in Tarhouna, uncovered by the…
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