Tiny and bowed by age, Marie Orfali makes the trip five times a week from her Beirut apartment to the local church, a charity and a nearby soup kitchen to fetch a cooked meal for her and her 84-year-old husband, Raymond.
Their only support _ (...)
Ahead of the Second Berlin Conference on Libya, which opened yesterday (23 June), Cairo intensified contacts with key Libyan parties to help ensure a successful outcome. In many ways Libyan national security is part of Egyptian national security, (...)
Incentives for Saudis
SAUDI investments in Egypt are expected to reach $50 billion during the next five years "so long as good incentives are available," said Bandar Al-Amri, chairman of the Egyptian Saudi Joint Business Council, adding that the (...)
Egyptian General Intelligence Service Director Abbas Kamel visited Tripoli on 17 June to meet with senior Libyan officials, including Chairman of the Presidency Council Mohamed Al-Manfi and Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) (...)
Ninety Egyptians who had been detained in Tripoli over charges of illegal immigration were released on Monday, said a statement by the Egyptian embassy in the Libyan capital, which resumed its work in May after a seven-year-closure.
The Egyptian (...)
Egypt's Ambassador in Libya Mohamed Tharwat Selim announced, on Monday, that 90 Egyptian citizens who have been detained at the illegal immigration headquarters in Tripoli since last Friday have been released.
He said that the Egyptian Embassy in (...)
Libya's interim authorities reopened on Sunday the Mediterranean coastal highway linking the country's long-divided eastern and western cities, in the latest bid to reunite the territories after years of civil war.
The announcement comes three days (...)
Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat has received a high-level delegation of leaders from Libya's information and communications technology (ICT) sector for discussions on enhancing cooperation.
The Libyan (...)
Libya's Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush praised on Saturday the Egyptian role in ensuring the success of the Libyan dialogue, ending divisions, reaching a ceasefire and supporting stability in the North African country.
Mangoush's remarks came in a (...)
Head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service (GIS) Abbas Kamel discussed the unification of Libya's military institutions with the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi on Thursday, Al-Arabiya (...)
Libya's Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abd Al-Hamid Al-Dabaiba received, on Thursday, Chief of the Egyptian General Intelligence Abbas Kamel in Tripoli.
Kamel's visit to Libya comes at directives of Egypt's President Abdel (...)
The head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service (GIS) Abbas Kamel arrived in Tripoli on Thursday upon the directives of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, a short statement by the GIS said.
The visit aims to boost cooperation and support the political (...)
Over 270 Europe-bound migrants were rescued by a commercial ship off Libya's Mediterranean shores and handed over to the Libyan coast guard who sent them to detention centers, the U.N. migration and refugee agencies said.
The migrants were rescued (...)
The first conference, convened in January 2020, aimed to promote a ceasefire in the conflict over Tripoli and forge a roadmap to enable the creation of a new interim executive to manage the country until parliamentary and presidential elections were (...)
The prospect of peace is being tested in Libya against a backdrop of a developing regional rapprochement between Egypt and Turkey. Syria is witnessing a stalemate, with most of the country now back in the hands of the regime led by Syrian President (...)
Qatar has no plans to normalise ties with Syria, the Gulf state's foreign minister said, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office last week in an election derided by the opposition and the West as a farce.
Qatar was among (...)
The path to national elections in Libya in December is far from as smooth as international stakeholders would like. Among the most crucial hurdles are the 2021 national budget, the constitutional principles that will serve as the basis for the (...)
Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani arrived in Cairo on Monday for a two-day visit as part of a regional tour.
Bin Jassim is expected to meet with a number of Egyptian officials, including Egyptian Foreign Minister (...)
A top American diplomat arrived Tuesday in Libya's capital, marking the first visit by a senior US official since the UN backed election of an interim government in February.
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood (...)
In a not-so-surprising development, the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya has changed its name to the Revival and Renewal Association, according to a statement the group released on 1 May. The reason, it said, was "to revive the call to adhere to a (...)
Gilles Carbonnier, vice president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was in Egypt for a three-day visit during which he met with top-level officials to discuss joint action on Covid-19 as well as the humanitarian activities of (...)
A senior official at Libya's new Presidency Council denied on Saturday that groups who entered a hotel where the body meets had been armed or used force, playing down an incident that had appeared to illustrate the risks facing the unity (...)
In a show of force, armed militiamen briefly took over a hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli that serves as headquarters for the interim government, officials said Saturday.
Friday's development came after the three-member presidential council (...)
An Egyptian delegation will be making an inspection tour to Libyan airports within days in preparation for the resumption of weekly flights to Cairo, Khalil Al-Majai, chair of the Tripoli-based Afriqiyah Airways, was cited as saying on (...)
Libya's top diplomat Monday called for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from the North African country as it heads toward elections later this year.
Najla al-Manqoush, foreign minister of Libya's interim government, urged Turkey to (...)
