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Port in Libya’s Benghazi reopens after three-year closure due to clashes
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Benghazi’s commercial port officially reopened on Sunday after a three-year closure due to fighting between rival factions in the east Libyan city.

To mark the opening Abdullah al-Thinni, prime minister of a government based in the east, arrived on board a tanker sent from the eastern city of Tobruk.

The port does not export oil, but imports gas and some petroleum products as well as general cargo, and local costs for these would be reduced by the port’s reopening, port spokesman Nasser Al-Maghrabi said.

Libyan PM says Turkey supplying weapons to rival Tripoli group
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Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said his government would stop dealing with Turkey because it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so that “the Libyan people kill each other”.

Two administrations, one in the capital and Thinni’s in the east, have been battling for power since the armed group Libya Dawn seized Tripoli in July and reinstated lawmakers from a previous assembly, four years after Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.

“Turkey is a state that is not dealing honestly with us. It’s exporting weapons to us so the Libyan people kill each other,” Thinni told Egyptian TV channel CBC late on Thursday.

#Libya, #Egypt to coordinate on countering terrorism
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Libya and Egypt are coordinating on border security and training army and police with a view to countering terrorism, Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said Wednesday. Addressing a joint press conference with Egyptian counterpart Ibrahim Mahlab, al-Thinni said the two states were cooperating to enhance the fighting capabilities of the Libyan army and training police forces in all fields. “Terrorism is widespread all across the region,” al-Thinni asserted. read more

Rebels occupying Libyan oil ports refuse to deal with new PM
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Rebels occupying major oil ports in eastern #Libya said on Wednesday they would not deal with new Prime Minister #Ahmed_Maiteeq, a stance that could threaten efforts to reopen the terminals in the OPEC producer. Maiteeq’s predecessor Abdullah al-Thinni had reached an agreement with the rebels to reopen four of the ports, though only the smaller ones, Hariga and Zueitina, have been handed over to government forces. read more

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