Libya news digest – Migrant loaded truck crashes in Tripoli – Tunisia arrests UN official on sanction infringements – New contract with China’s King Long for Busses for Libya
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A truck carrying illegal immigrants crashed near the town of Nesma about 200 km south of Tripoli, resulting in the injury of a number of migrants in the truck.
Libya Observersays that a spokesman for Bani Walid Hospital, on Thursday, confirmed the arrival of 11 immigrants to the hospital with moderate to minor injuries.
The hospital is suffering from a lack of resources and supplies and demanded the relevant authorities for more support due to the increasing number of injury cases among migrants, especially in the summer, according to the director of the hospital, “Mohammed Al-Mabrouk.
The United Nations envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, said there are 10 countries intervening in Libya, adding that he is working with the UN Secretary General to take the necessary measures to stop such interventions. Speaking to Al-Jazeera TV on Wednesday, Salame said there are foreign countries supplying arms to different Libyan parties despite the UN arms embargo on the country.
“We have done so much progress in the political process in Libya such as joint meetings for House of Representatives and High Council of State and the ceasefire agreement in Tripoli as well as economic reforms’ package, ending troubles at the oil crescent in June 2018 and recently resuming oil production at Sharara oilfield.” Salame said.
Libya Herald reports that the country has signed a contract to import 130 buses from China’s King Long company. The contract was signed this week in Tripoli by Essahim Company for Public Transport, a subsidiary of the National Investment Company (NIC). Essahim will import and operate the buses which will be for Tripoli.
Libya Express reports that Tunisia has arrested a UN official involved in monitoring an international arms embargo on Libya although he has diplomatic immunity, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Moncef Kartas, a Tunisian national and member of a U.N. panel of experts assigned to monitor an arms embargo imposed on Libya in 2011, was arrested after arriving at Tunis airport on Tuesday, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said. “We are in touch with the Tunisian authorities to ascertain the reasons for his arrest and detention as well as the conditions under which he is being held,” Haq said.
The Tunisian interior ministry could not be reached for comment. The interior ministry said in a statement on Friday that two unnamed Tunisian citizens were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for foreign parties. The ministry had also seized secret documents undermining national security, it said, adding that investigations were ongoing.
Libya Report says that the country held rare municipal elections in nine communities on Saturday, although turnout in the country’s first voting since five years reached only about 38 percent.
