17 June 2013
Overview This week has been dominated by the aftermath of the Libya Shield Brigade killings in Benghazi. Politically there is a national sense and recognition that it may have taken this terrible incident for the country’s politicians and wider civil society to decide that ‘enough is enough’. This realisation is meaningless without decisive action [...]
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17 June 2013
APR Energy today announced a 200MW expansion of its original 250MW contract in Libya, making it “the single largest contract ever signed in the fast-track power industry”. The expansion, which brings the contracted total generation capacity to 450MW, supplements the 250MW of mobile gas turbines originally contracted. The turnkey power solution will help cover anticipated [...]
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17 June 2013
The Mellitah Oil & Gas Company intends to issue the below tender and wishes to invite for pre-qualification interested, experienced and reputable companies specialized in providing similar services stated below to submit all requirements for inclusion in the bidders list to be invited to participate in the following tender: Tender Number 736 To Intent to [...]
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17 June 2013
The Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans (pictured) arrived in Tripoli on Sunday in what Libya Herald describes as a “lightning visit” for talks with the Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan. Stopping off on his way to Tunis, he also met with his Libyan opposite number, Mohamed Abdulaziz as well as with the Second Deputy President of [...]
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17 June 2013
The Sirte Oil Company has announced a tender (TP-1215P) for the replacement of a logic control system (HEMA). Specialized companies that consider themselves qualified to execute any of the above-mentioned projects, and wish to participate, are urged to contact Secretariat of S.O.C Main Tenders Committee, at Marsa El-Brega to purchase tender document (s) at non [...]
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16 June 2013
Maltese opposition foreign affairs spokesman Carm Mifsud Bonnici (pictured) has again called for Malta to make better use of trade opportunities with Libya, building on the good will generated by Malta’s help during the civil war. Speaking in parliament, he said the number of Maltese exhibitors at the recent Libya Build event was small, compared [...]
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16 June 2013
Tripoli Post reports that the 100 civil servants have started the Leaders Programme run by the Dubai School of Government (DSG). The Leaders Programme is an outcome of an agreement between the Dubai School of Government and the Veterans Affairs Commission in Benghazi. As part of the agreement, DSG has developed an educational leadership programme that [...]
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15 June 2013
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on behalf of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), hereby invites you to submit your Proposal for the provision of training services including drafting training manuals and designing training courses in the areas of human rights promotion and protection, investigating and prosecuting human rights violations, terrorism [...]
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15 June 2013
BP Exploration Libya Ltd has requested “Expressions of Interest” from qualified contractors for the provision of management, preparedness and response services for the oil spill response base in support of BP’s forthcoming exploration drilling campaign in the onshore Ghadames and offshore Sirte basins of Libya. Any contractors providing “Expression of Interest” must as a minimum [...]
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15 June 2013
The Libyan authorities must drop charges against two politicians who published a cartoon on women’s rights deemed to be offensive to Islam, Amnesty International said today. Libyan National Party policy manager Ali Tekbali and Fathi Sager, the party’s secretary general, are due to appear in court this Sunday, 16 June at the Criminal Court in [...]
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15 June 2013
Libya Herald reports on Saturday that Benghazi’s Benina Airport was closed in the morning due to the clashes in Airport Road area of the city. The closure was confirmed by Captain Hussain Fitouri, head of the Libyan Pilot’s Union. It was reported to have re-opened again later in the afternoon. (Source: Libya Herald) (Picture: Aerial [...]
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15 June 2013
Employees of the Rural Bank went on strike on Thursday. According to Libya Herald, they are demanding a pay rise and an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of shareholders as quickly as possible to appoint a board of directors to run the bank in place of the current steering committee. They also demanded further investment in [...]
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