The oil tanker, Anwar Al-Khaleej arrived on Tuesday at the Port of Tripoli carrying 34 million liters of gasoline. The Fuel and Gas Crisis Committee said the oil tanker began to distribute the fuel to trucks waiting to begin their work and end the petrol crisis at petrol stations that have witnessed long queues for more than a week. The fuel crisis began when truck drivers went on strike because of delays in their payment. Although the strike was ended, all the assurances of fuel availability failed to convince motorists to avoid congestion in front of petrol stations.
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The Sudanese Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires of the Libyan embassy in Khartoum, Ali Mahrouq, on Tuesday and informed him of their protest against what they described as the brutal treatment of a group of Sudanese citizens in Libya. This action came as the Sudanese Foreign Ministry regarded the detention of a group of Sudanese citizens inside Libyan territory in extremely harsh conditions; some of them were subjected to brutal treatment, as not acceptable. "Our embassy in Tripoli has continued from the first moment and with the highest leadership and competent bodies to continue to pursue this case". The ministry added in a statement. For his part, the Libyan Chargé d'affaires expressed his deep regret and apology on behalf of his country for this shameful thing, regarding it as “inconsistent with the values and morals of the Libyan people.”
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An armed man opened fire on a patient in Al-Jala Hospital in Benghazi on Tuesday. The hospital said on its official Facebook page that a visitor to one of the patients fired shots at another patient near the admission office, causing panic among the medical staff, the patients and the visitors. The hospital did not give further information. The hospital confirmed that such an incident has been repeated several times inside the hospital without any precautions or deterrents put in place. A similar operation took place just one day before at Benghazi Medical Center after an altercation quickly turned into a shooting that caused a number of people to be wounded.
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Vice Chairman of the Presidential Council (PC), Ahmed Maiteeq, held a meeting with a number of military leaders of the PC headed by Chief of the General Staff and Commander of the Libyan Air Force. The meeting discussed the reactivation of military colleges in Tripoli. According to the Media Office of PC, the meeting also stressed the need to provide the military colleges with all their needs and open the door to new registrants.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Libya said on Tuesday that it had provided humanitarian assistance to more than 1150 displaced families from Derna, Tobruk and Butnan. The ICRC said on its official Facebook page that the aid had been distributed in cooperation with the Libyan Red Crescent to families forced to leave their residence in search of security and stability due to the internal conflict. The ICRC noted that many Libyan families are living in difficult situations and deprived of access to basic needs as a result of the long-term conflict.
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Jikharra Municipal Council, north-eastern Libya, threatened to re-close the oil fields in the region if their demands to provide liquidity, food and the return of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) to Benghazi by next March were not met. The Council denied the statements of the NOC, which claimed that the latter and the Attorney General put pressure on the Council to reopen the fields in the region and described them as false. It stated that it is the National Oil Corporation that was the reason for the waste of Libyan funds and the rise in the price of currencies against the dinar. Earlier, a statement by the NOC said that pressure from NOC and from the Attorney General's Office had led the Municipality of Jikharra to reopen the oil fields in the region after the closure in November 2017.
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UNICEF stated that 439.000 children needed urgent humanitarian aid in Libya last year. In their annual report on the humanitarian situation in Libya in 2017, UNICEF said that continued conflict, insecurity, the collapsed economy and periodic escalation of armed conflict have exacerbated humanitarian needs, especially to vulnerable groups such as children. In the report, UNICEF estimated the number of migrants in Libya to be 400.000, of whom more than 33,000 children were at high risk of human rights violations. UNICEF confirmed that they provided psychological support to 30.000 children in schools throughout Libya, as well as specialized services for children survivors of violence related to gender discrimination.
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