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At least 20 people were killed and nearly 80 others wounded when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon’s northern region of Akkar, the Red Cross and state media said on Sunday. The tragedy heaped new misery on a country already suffering from an economic crisis and severe fuel shortages that have crippled hospitals and caused long power cuts. “Our teams have transported 20 dead bodies … from the fuel tanker explosion in #AKKAR to hospitals […]
by Susannah Walden Agence France-Presse TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) — Standing in a pile of broken glass in northern Lebanon, a man heaved shovel-loads of shards — retrieved from Beirut after the massive explosion at its port — into a red-hot furnace. Melted down at a factory in the second city Tripoli, they re-emerged as molten glass ready to be recycled into traditional slim-necked water jugs. The August 4 port explosion ripped through countless glass doors and windows […]
by Imed LAMLOUM Agence France Presse TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been trying for three months to seize the capital. At least 70 were also wounded in the raid on Tajoura, an emergency services spokesman told AFP. “This is a preliminary assessment and the toll could rise,” said […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Foreign Affairs has raised an Alert Level 4 over Tripoli and nearby areas. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin made the announcement in a Tweet on Wednesday, May 1. According to Locsin, the alert, which calls for a mandatory repatriation of Overseas Filipino Workers covered by the same, applied to the Libyan capital and “100 kilometers around.” Locsin said he informed President Rodrigo Duterte about the raising of the alert yesterday. “More […]
(Eagle News) – An official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) who is in Libya to help repatriate Filipinos there appealed to his countrymen to accept the Philippine government’s offer of repatriation and leave Tripoli as their lives are in danger due to intensified fighting there. Elmer Cato, the Philippine diplomatic representative in Libya, had been repeatedly telling Filipinos in Tripoli to leave the area and go back to the Philippines. But he […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Embassy has begun evacuating Filipinos from Tripoli, Libya following the continued fighting there. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the first batch consisting of seven Filipinos– three hospital workers and four students– were evacuated by the Philippine embassy this morning to Tunisia. From there they would be repatriated to the Philippines. The DFA said it shouldered the cost of the trip of the four Islamic School students in Tripoli while the Overseas […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine Embassy in Tripoli has advised Filipinos in Libya to be vigilant and “avoid unnecessary movement.” The embassy issued the advisory in a Facebook post after the Presidential Council declared a state of emergency with the proclaimed advance of the Libyan National Army towards Tripoli. The embassy said it also earlier monitored some isolated clashes outside the Libyan capital and troop movements in areas outside Tripoli. “Until such time that the situation has […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has asked some 1,800 Filipinos living in Tripoli, Libya to take necessary precautions after renewed military clashes in the southern Tripoli district of Qasir Ben Ghasnir which have killed at least 10 people. Philippine Ambassador to Tripoli, “Filipinos in the Qasir Ben Ghashir, Wadi Al Rabea, Tariq Matar, Esbea and adjoining districts in Tripoli are advised to move to safer areas far from the scene of […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Fighting in and around the Libyan capital has displaced thousands of people, the government said Tuesday as the UN prepared to host talks seeking to halt the violence. Clashes since August 27 between rival militias in and around Tripoli have killed at least 50 people and wounded 138 others, most of them civilians, the health ministry said in an updated toll. The fighting has raged mostly in the southern suburbs of […]
Privately-run aid organizations rescuing migrants off Libya have slammed the idea of creating a “code of conduct” for them to follow, saying European ministers tackling the crisis are bungling their response. Italy, France and Germany held a working dinner on Sunday to prepare the ground for a six-point plan to address the biggest migrant phenomenon since World War II, to be submitted to the bloc at a meeting on Thursday in Talinn. Top of […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – by Mohamad Ali Harissi Libya’s UN-backed unity government lost control Monday of a third oil port seized by rival forces, raising fears of a major outbreak of fresh violence in the chaos-ridden country. The loss comes after fighters backing a rival administration in east Libya seized two other terminals from guards loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday. All three Mediterranean ports are in Libya’s “oil crescent”, […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – by Mohamad Ali Harissi Libya has shipped the last of its chemical weapons stocks out of the country, officials said Tuesday, under a UN-backed plan to ensure the arsenal could not fall into the wrong hands. The move will ease fears that extremists like the Islamic State group could gain access to the weapons in Libya, which has been wracked by chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Moamer Kadhafi. A senior […]
