Tripoli

TRIPOLI — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli on Saturday to conclude an $8 billion gas deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country.

Meanwhile, the independent English language Tripoli-based Libyan Express reported that Haftar launched a rocket attack Thursday on Tripoli, hitting the Central Hospital on other downtown areas.

The airstrikes late Saturday on the al-Waitya airbase in the desert southwestern of Tripoli destroyed military equipment recently brought in by Turkey, including air-defence systems, according to officials in Tripoli.

Tripoli has been under siege by the Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by Khalifa Haftar, who started his offensive on Tripoli in April 2019.

Turkey’s state-run news agency said Akar visited Tripoli to “observe activities” being conducted in line with the agreement reached between Turkey and the government in Tripoli.

Work began on the Tripoli Special Economic Zone in 2016, the Lebanese Parliament approved a loan to expand the city’s port in 2018 and agreements were made the same year to renovate the city’s train station and to connect Tripoli to Syria by rail.

Eighteen F-111 bombers supported by four EF-111 electronic countermeasures aircraft flying from the United Kingdom bombed Tripoli airfield, a frogman training center at a naval academy, and the Bab al-Azizia barracks in Tripoli.

Albion Park residents will be able to avoid congested Tongarra Road potentially by 2027, with NSW Labor committing to fund the Tripoli Way extension if elected in the upcoming election.

Ali Khalifa, an oil rig worker from Zawiya, west of Tripoli, said his cousin and a group of other men from his neighbourhood joined a convoy of vehicles heading to Derna to help out with relief efforts.

Although it’s eaten all over Lebanon, it is traditional and specific to Tripoli and reminded her of the El Mina port which was full of fish.

An AFP correspondent in the impoverished port city of Tripoli said men, women and children — mostly refugees from Syria but also about 50 Lebanese — were on board the vessel when it got into difficulty.

An internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) is based in Tripoli, in the west, while a parallel administration operates in the east, including the city of Derna, which has been devastated by flooding.

Four Grade I stakes winners were entered for the Classic, won last year by Horse of the Year Flightline – Geaux Rocket Ride, Tripoli, Defunded and Stilleto Boy.

Hifter’s eastern government based in the is locked in a bitter rivalry with the western government in the capital of Tripoli.

Hours after he was sworn into office, he secretly traveled to Tripoli, Libya to personally oversee the repatriation of Filipino workers.

Internet users had posted the tracking details from the FlightRadar website of a flight said to be carrying Mangoush from Mitiga airport in Tripoli to Istanbul.

In Tripoli’s Al Mina port alone, more than 1,800 fishermen are registered.

Meloni was greeted at the airport by Najla Mangoush, the foreign minister of the Tripoli-based government.

ROME/TRIPOLI — Italian energy company Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) signed an $8 billion gas production deal on Saturday aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 108 Nigerians who have been stuck in Tripoli, Libya.