News Roundup – Sun, Jul 9, 2017 – The Libya Observer
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The Coast Guard of the Libyan Navy, rescued eighty African migrants from various nationalities off the coast of Castelverde yesterday, after receiving information of their presence from Libyan fishermen. Among those rescued were 20 women and 7 children, said naval spokesman, Colonel Ayoub Qasim, adding that the Coast Guard rushed to the scene where the boat had crashed. Those still afloat were clinging to the driftwood created by the crushed boat. The scene was six miles north of the castelverde, and 10 Libyan fishermens boats participated in the rescue.
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Zuara Municipal Council held a meeting with members of the Red Cross organization at the Zuara Guest House. According to the Councils Facebook page, some of the topics discussed at the meeting were illegal immigration and what the Red Cross could provide the municipality to help tackle it. It was also stated that the Red Cross provided assistance, including supply of body bags and other special items for dealing with corpses. It was agreed that a meeting would be held at a later date to organize future health training courses.
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Four children, four women and three men departed yesterday evening from Matiga International Airport destined for Tunisia to receive urgent healthcare after severe injuries sustained at the beach incident on the Shat Road. The Central Operations Room of the Ministry of Health had announced earlier that the final count after an accidental shell struck innocent beachgoers on the Shat Road was 32 wounded and 5 deaths.
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One of the members of the Dialogue Committee of the House of Representatives, Ziad Daghim, said he was surprised at statements made by the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emhamed Shoaib. Shoaib described meetings in the Netherlands between the delegations of the House of Representatives and the High Council State as contrary to all expectations, and a deviation from the political agreement, causing confusion. Daghim stressed in a press statement that the provisions of the agreement limited the right to amend between the two sides without specifying who would supervise such amendments or where and when they would take place.
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The President of the Presidential Council Fayez Sarraj revealed that his governments contacts of the highest level have made contact with Saudi authorities to release the Libyan detainees who originate from the city of Zawiyah. The detainees were arrested at Jeddah airport after performing Ummrah. The details were released after the meeting between Sarraj and his Foreign Minister Mohamed Sayala and attended by a delegation of representatives of the city of Zawiyah and a number of the families of the detainees in Tripoli last Saturday.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UN proposed government, Mohamed Sayala, discussed the return of the Spanish companies to complete suspended projects contracted before 2011 in the oil sector. Sayala called for facilitating the Spanish visa to Libyans, especially the sick and wounded, and to help Libyan students to study and train in Spain. This came during his meeting with the Spanish Foreign Minister on the sidelines of his participation in the International Ministerial Conference on Illegal Immigration held in Rome.
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Unknown gunmen assassinated the head of the security department of Gharyan, Colonel Abd AlRazzaq Amish, on his way home on Saturday evening. Colonel Amish was shot dead and died instantly in front of his house with the perpetrators yet to be determined. The Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Abd Salam Ashour, denied there were any threats to Colonel Amishs life and his feeling is that the murder is unlikely to have any political dimensions.
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Corinthia Hotel management will begin opening reservations for hotel guests by the beginning of August, according to Corinthia Hotel representative. The representative added that all relevant measures have been taken to resume work, reopen reservations and welcome both domestic and international guests. The hotel management said that they have secured and provided all amenities at the hotel which has only recently reopened up for reservations of wedding ceremonies, hosting conferences, forums and workshops after it was all closed after being targeted by ISIS late 2014.
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A workshop on partnership with the Municipal Council of Sirte on building the vision of reconstruction and development was organized by the Tunisian Republican Institute and concluded in Tunis on Saturday evening. The workshop ended up with a series of recommendations on security, reconstruction, local economic recovery, community reconciliation and development. The workshop was attended by the Mayor of the Municipality of Sirte Mokhtar Al-Madani, members of the Municipal Council, experts, consultants and representatives of civil society organizations.
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