The head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ghassan Salame, briefed Tuesday foreign ambassadors and diplomats residing in Tripoli on results of his most recent meetings with Libyan parties as well as progress made on implementing the United Nations Action Plan for Libya. This meeting comes after a tour by Salame to the eastern city of Benghazi where he met with officials and tribal leaders, in addition to his Tripoli meetings with officials of the Presidential Council, the High Council of State and representatives of southwest Libya. A few days ago, Salame announced his decision to return to the headquarters of the UNSMIL in Benghazi to continue communication with the social components of in eastern Libya.
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The office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Libya has delivered two neonatal ventilators with all accessories to the Afiyah Hospital in Hun town, central Libya. The WHO explained on their official Facebook page that the ventilators support the Gynecology and Obstetrics medical services at the hospital that covers the under-served Southern and Central regions of Libya. The WHO said the aid was funded by the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), adding it is determined to continue its humanitarian assistance to the health sector all over Libya.
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The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense of the Presidential Council, Uhida Najem, hosted the new military attaché of the British Embassy in Libya, Colonel David Robertson, on Tuesday, according to a statement published by the ministry. Robertson was appointed as the successor to Colonel Dougie Hay. The meeting, which was held in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, dealt with prospects of joint cooperation and ways to support and enhance the prospects of partnership between the two countries, as well as ways of cooperation in the fields of training between the Libyan state and the United Kingdom.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that 21 migrants were missing and have probably drowned after a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat sailed from the coast of Libya towards Italy. The 21 people missing were all among the 51 on the wooden boat, and two dead infants had reportedly been discovered on board, bringing the likely death toll to 23, IOM spokesman Joel Millman told a regular UN briefing in Geneva. All 132 people on the rubber dinghy were rescued, he said.
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The commander of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) of Dignity Operation in the eastern region, Muftah Magerief, announced on Tuesday a heightened degree of alert by his forces at the oil fields, in anticipation of any attack from the armed groups led by ISIS, which is still active in the central and southern region. According to the Media Office of the PFG, Magerief gave instructions to his forces to deploy in all fields and to take care and caution, stressing that the situation in the oil fields is currently going normally and well.
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Misrata Hospital held Tuesday a ceremony to raise its classification from hospital to medical center, in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 10 of 2017. A number of doctors and hospital employees who have reached retirement were honored during the ceremony. The Vice-President of the Presidential Council, Ahmed Maitiq, the head of the hospital, the Turkish Consul, representatives of the office of the World Health Organization in Libya and members of Misrata Municipal Council were all present at the ceremony. Maitiq highlighted the importance of the hospital and the services it offers to patients from Misrata and neighboring cities, saying the suspended projects of the hospital since 2011 will resume again after their approval by the Presidential Council.
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A security official at the Sirte Security Directorate said a number of decomposed bodies and human bones were found along the seashore in the second residential neighborhood in Sirte. The bodies were found after being reported on Tuesday morning by citizens in the neighborhood. The city of Sirte is still suffering from the presence of decomposed bodies at sites that witnessed clashes with ISIS during the war in the city and that most of these bodies are of ISIS fighters. Many residents in Sirte have demonstrated several times, demanding a campaign to remove any bodies or remnants of war that they say causes pollution in their areas.
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The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj met with the ambassador of Sweden to Libya, Fredrik Florén, on Wednesday in Tripoli in the presence of deputy foreign minister Lutfi Al-Maghrabi. The Swedish ambassador said the Swedish diplomatic mission will return to the capital soon. He also discussed boosting relations between Libya and Sweden in all fields. Al-Sirraj also told the ambassador that the reopening of the Swedish embassy in Tripoli will have great effects in developing the relations between the two countries, Al-Sirraj media office reported.
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The Head of the Relief Department at Misrata Red Crescent Ali Mousa called on the deputy head of the Presidential Council Ahmed Mitig to contact with the embassies of the countries of which the kids of ISIS group's parents belong in order to return them home. Mousa added that when Mitig visited Misrata Red Crescent office, they told him of the needs of the office and the children, who are 45 ones of parents from Tunisia, Ghana, Egypt, and Nigeria, who were killed during the liberation of Sirte in 2016.
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