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Head of elders council in Al-Jufra, Ahmed Abu Taleb, said their district is against the military mobilization that is being conducted by Dignity Operation, adding that Al-Jufra is not with the choice of war or with one side over the other in the current conflict. He also said that Al-Jufra should be a place of dialogue among all parties, saying their armed groups won't be a part of any Libyan-Libyan fight and they only fought IS militants alongside Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos in Sirte.

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Fifth meeting for the Libyan experts in development forum has ended after discussing placing a national framework for social security to limit the poverty in Libyan, with constant assistance to the poor and the weak in Libya. The discussions were attended by experts from UNICEF and World Bank.

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National Safety Authority warned people of using non-original gas cylinders after reports about fires caused by them in different areas, with some incidents leading to deaths and serious burns, adding that the latest incident was when one cylinder exploded in a house in Zliten and killed the whole family.

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Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos said it had reopened the coastal road in Sirte from the western to the eastern entries of the city. The reopening came after finishing demining works and cleaning campaigns, leaving the roads ready to receive the displaced families to their houses.

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UNSMIL has said that 20 civilians were killed and 4 others were wounded in last March due to hostilities across Libya, breaking the numbers into 9 men, 6 women, and 3 children, failing to specify the gender of remaining two. It added that 11 were killed in shootings, four in airstrikes, three in shelling, and two others were killed in a warplane crash. It also said that on March 17, thirteen bodies for African nationals were found in Teleel wood near Sabratha city.

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Local sources confirmed that social efforts stopped the clashes that broke out between pro-Haftar armed groups in Wirshiffana on Sunday. Aziziya district saw fierce clashes between tribal armed groups, without reports about damages or fatalities. Days ago, the same armed group were engaged in clashes before they stopped upon a ceasefire agreement.

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An explosion was heard Sunday morning in Benghazi. Locals said it could be airstrikes conducted by Dignity Operation on locations for Benghazi Shura Council, which confirmed that Al-Lathama bridge in eastern Al-Sabri has fallen after the explosion. It added that the explosion could be due to the heavy air attacks on the location along with artillery shelling in the early morning today.

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Agence France-Presse said its photographer in Benghazi Abdullah Duma was arrested again by security authorities just after two days of his release. He first was arrested on last Tuesday for shooting celebration of Earth Hour upon having no permission for the celebration. Reasons of the new arrest are still unknown.

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File: An AFP Photographer who who filmed a student concert in Benghazi was detained for a second time this week. Photo: AFP PHOTO/ ABDULLAH DOMA

TRIPOLI - AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was detained late Saturday for the second time in several days by security services there, his family said.

Doma had been released on Wednesday night after being held for 24 hours over his coverage of a public concert to mark Earth Hour.

Security services had raided Doma's home on Tuesday night and told the family he was to be questioned over his photographic coverage for AFP of the concert at Benghazi University on March 25.

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The Awqaf religious authorities, linked to the authorities in the east, had condemned the Earth Hour event in Benghazi as "offensive" to Islam as it went against the segregation of the sexes.

Late Saturday, Benghazi's counter terrorism unit called the photographer, asking him to go to their headquarters "to answer a few questions", his family said.

Relatives who accompanied him there were told by policemen to go back home as he was now in detention".

The family was not given any explanation, but one relative believed Doma had been detained once again for covering the concert.

AFP management expressed its concern after Doma was detained again.

It called on the Benghazi authorities to free the photographer as soon as possible and urged that no charges be pressed against him.

Benghazi is controlled by the military authorities of Khalifa Haftar, which contest the legitimacy of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord which is based in the capital Tripoli.

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Benghazi, the country's second city has for the past two years been the scene of clashes between Islamists and forces loyal to a government based in eastern Libya.

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LONDON Libya's Sharara oil field resumed production on Sunday after a week-long shutdown when a pipeline linking it to an export terminal was blocked, a Libyan oil source told Reuters.

Crude from the field is due to reach the Zawiya terminal later tonight the source said, declining to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

NOC declared force majeure on exports of Sharara crude on March 28, a day after the shutdown of the field. The force majeure remains in place for now, the source said but added it could be lifted as early as Monday morning.

The source said the state-owned National Oil Corp's Chairman Mustafa Sanalla was able to convince the group which blocked the pipeline from the field to the Zawiya terminal of the importance of resuming oil flows unconditionally.

The field was producing around 220,000 bpd before the shutdown.

(Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar, Editing by Dmitry Zhdannikov)

HOUSTON/CARACAS Venezuela is negotiating financial help from Russian oil major Rosneft to complete nearly $3 billion in PDVSA debt payments coming due to bondholders next month, two market sources and a government source familiar with the talks told Reuters on Friday.

WASHINGTON U.S. farmers plan to seed a record amount of soybean acreage this spring, even with supplies trending near all-time highs, but wheat seedings will fall to the lowest on record, the government said on Friday.

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Hafter in talks with French ambassador on Libyan crisis Libya Herald French ambassador Brigitte Curmi has had talks with Khalifa Hafter on the crisis in Libya. The two met on Wednesday at the field marshal's Rajmah headquarters, near Benghazi's Benina airbase. It followed a meeting in Tobruk the previous day with House ...

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TORONTO A Canadian man who tried to organize an aid shipment to relatives stranded in a conflict-ridden area of Libya says he recently found out most of his family members had died during his fruitless efforts to send them food and water.

Ali Hamza of Mississauga, Ont., had flown to Turkey with his wife and children last month in a bid to mobilize relief efforts for the residents of Ganfouda, a militant-controlled neighbourhood in the city of Benghazi that has been besieged by Libyan army troops that answer to a powerful commander.

Amnesty International has raised the alarm over the situation in Ganfouda, saying residents had been trapped there for months with dwindling food and fuel supplies.

Hamza spent nearly a month in Turkey attempting to partner with an NGO to send in a delivery of food and water, but the precarious security situation kept the aid shipment on the ground.

Two weeks ago, Hamza says he got the devastating news that five of the six family members he was trying to help had died.

He says one brother and one sister died on Feb. 25 during a bombing attack in Ganfouda that he learned of later, adding they had been living on tree bark and rain water in the weeks before their deaths.

On Mar. 18, Hamza says his elderly mother and three remaining siblings boarded a bus in a bid to flee to a safer part of Benghazi, only to be ambushed on their way out. His mother, a brother and a sister all died, he said, adding only one sister survived and is being detained.

Hamza said the news came as a crushing end to an already upsetting trip.

"In the plane, maybe three times I cried very loud," he said of the return journey from Turkey. "We lost family. We lost the grandmother of our children, we lost uncles and aunts."

Hamza had called on the Canadian government to take a more active role in providing aid and support to Ganfouda and expressed disappointment at the lack of strong public statements from Ottawa on the plight of those stranded in the area.

Libya has been beset by violence and chaos since the ouster and death of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi in a 2011 civil war.

Despite a UN-brokered peace deal reached a year ago, Libya remains divided between east and west, with no effective government and rival factions and militias each side with backing from different foreign countries.

Last month, Hamza borrowed money and put the family SUV up for sale in order to finance an aid shipment to 30 families. By working in partnership with the Turkish NGO known as the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, he hoped to provide them with food, water and basic medication for at least 10 days.

But Hamza said the NGO never received clearance to deliver the shipment due to ongoing security risks on the ground in Benghazi.

He said he was unaware that his family members were dying during the wait until receiving word through other aid groups on March 19, the day after the bus carrying most of his surviving relatives was ambushed by forces Hamza alleged answered to a military commander.

In the aftermath of the losses, Hamza said he still feels intense disappointment in the federal government as he feels it reneged on its international obligations to provide aid and comfort to those in need.

"They never considered us or those who are there as worthy of defending and standing with. So condolences from them ... are rejected."

Global Affairs Canada did not immediately respond to request for comment. It has said previously, however, that Canada is "deeply concerned'' with the ongoing armed conflict in Libya and its humanitarian impact on civilians, including in the district of Ganfouda.

with files from the Associated Press

By Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press

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