Day: December 20, 2021

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US Ambassador visits polling station, Admires preparations for the vote.

Tripoli, U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya Richard Norland expressed what he described as his fascination with voting preparations in the upcoming elections. He made the announcement in a tweet posted on the US Embassy’s Twitter page after visiting an electoral polling station Monday with the President of the High National Election Commission Emad Al-Sayeh.

“I was impressed by the preparations for the vote during my visit to a model polling station with Dr. Al Sayeh, and Regional Director of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Mr. Rubinstein,” Ambassador Norland said in the tweet.

“USAID technical will offer assistance to the High National Election Commission in support of free and fair elections that reflect the will of voters, Norland said.

Since the polling station is a school, I was lucky to meet children participating in the USAID civic education program, he said. “Children represent the future of Libya, and as a parent, I shared my hopes for a peaceful and bright future, he added.

Source: Libyan News Agency

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National Center for Disease Control records 592 new cases of Coronavirus.

Tripoli, National Center for Disease Control NCDC says it has recorded 592 new cases of Coronavirus by testing (4,379) samples, 793 recoveries, and 9 deaths of 9 cases throughout Libya in the past 24 hours.

According to the daily update of the local epidemiological situation of the Coronavirus on Sunday, December 19, 2021, percentage of positive cases (13.5%), the number of critical cases 126. The NCDC Committee on Communication and Health Information explains that 793 recoveries and 9 deaths from the Coronavirus have been recorded, including 4 in the western region and 05 in the eastern region and no cases were recorded in the southern region.

Source: Libyan News Agency

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Al-Kabeer is following up with Budget Committee annual closing for 2021.

Tripoli, The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabeer, continued, on Sunday in Tripoli, the implementation of the recommendations of the budget committee of the bank. This came during the meeting held by Al Kabeer at the bank’s headquarters with the Budget Committee and the relevant departments of the bank to discuss its preparations for the annual closing of the 2021 budget.

Source: Libyan News Agency

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The Public Prosecution orders the imprisonment of the Minister of Education on the back of the textbook crisis.

Tripoli The Public Prosecutor, “Al-Siddiq Al-Sour” today, Monday, ordered the detention of the Minister of Education, “Musa Al-Maqrif”, pending investigation, following the textbook crisis.

The Attorney General’s office said on its Facebook page that the Minister of Education was imprisoned on the grounds of his negligence in performing the duty assigned to him, practicing mediation and favoritism, and violating the principle of equality after expressing the ministry’s desire to contract the printing and supply of the textbook.

He explained that the Public Prosecutor directed the initiation of investigation procedures for the purpose of clarifying the circumstances and circumstances that accompanied the contracting procedures to print and secure the textbook, and to clarify the reasons that prevented it from being provided within deadlines that do not clash with the dates set for the beginning and end of the school year.

He added that, accordingly, the Public Prosecution member began the investigation procedures, which he initiated by hearing the testimony of the Minister of Planning and a number of those in charge of conducting the educational process, interrogating the Minister of Education, among several other procedures.

Source: Libyan News Agency