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Dbeibah Reopens Land Border Crossing Between Libya, Sudan

Head of Libya's Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah inaugurates an economic forum with Sudan in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. (GNU)
Head of Libya's Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah inaugurates an economic forum with Sudan in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. (GNU)
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Dbeibah Reopens Land Border Crossing Between Libya, Sudan

Head of Libya's Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah inaugurates an economic forum with Sudan in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. (GNU)
Head of Libya's Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah inaugurates an economic forum with Sudan in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. (GNU)

Head of Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah announced on Monday reopening the land border crossing with Sudan.

He pledged to provide infrastructure to improve the economy between the two countries.

The announcement came during the opening session of the Libyan-Sudanese Economic Forum, which kicked off its activities on Monday in Tripoli under the title “Free Zone for Transit Trade.”

Dbeibah affirmed that Libya will work on developing the economic cooperation with all neighboring countries, especially Sudan.

He further underscored the importance of developing bilateral economic cooperation and holding a joint ministerial committee meeting.

Dbeibah later invited Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan and the Sudanese Prime Minister to visit Tripoli.

Separately, Dbeibah ordered the establishment of a body independent from the Health Ministry to follow up on oncology centers and help organize and secure the needed medicines.

He held an expanded meeting to discuss the matter with Health Minister Ramadan Abu Janah, the directors of oncology centers, the head of the Medical Supply Authority, and the director of the National Center for Decision Support.

The meeting touched on the challenges and obstacles facing the body and preventing it from carrying out its tasks, as well as the work mechanism of the medical centers.

He underlined the need to find radical solutions for the work of the centers, provide organized services to patients, and work according to an electronic system.

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Italy’s Foreign Minister Heads to Syria to Encourage Post-Assad Transition

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media a he arrives for a meeting at Rome’s Villa Madama, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 on the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini (Andrew Medichini/AP POOL)
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media a he arrives for a meeting at Rome’s Villa Madama, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 on the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini (Andrew Medichini/AP POOL)
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Italy’s Foreign Minister Heads to Syria to Encourage Post-Assad Transition

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media a he arrives for a meeting at Rome’s Villa Madama, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 on the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini (Andrew Medichini/AP POOL)
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media a he arrives for a meeting at Rome’s Villa Madama, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 on the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini (Andrew Medichini/AP POOL)

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he would travel to Syria on Friday to encourage the country's transition following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by insurgents, and appealed on Europe to review its sanctions on Damascus now that the political situation has changed.
Tajani presided over a meeting in Rome on Thursday of foreign ministry officials from five countries, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
The aim, he said, is to coordinate the various post-Assad initiatives, with Italy prepared to make proposals on private investments in health care for the Syrian population.
Going into the meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their European counterparts, Tajani said it was critical that all Syrians be recognized with equal rights. It was a reference to concerns about the rights of Christians and other minorities under Syria’s new de facto authorities of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HT.
“The first messages from Damascus have been positive. That’s why I’m going there tomorrow, to encourage this new phase that will help stabilize the international situation,” Tajani said.
Speaking to reporters, he said the European Union should discuss possible changes to its sanctions on Syria. “It’s an issue that should be discussed because Assad isn’t there anymore, it’s a new situation, and I think that the encouraging signals that are arriving should be further encouraged,” he said.
Syria has been under deeply isolating sanctions by the US, the European Union and others for years as a result of Assad’s brutal response to what began as peaceful anti-government protests in 2011 and spiraled into civil war.
HTS led a lightning insurgency that ousted Assad on Dec. 8 and ended his family’s decades-long rule. From 2011 until Assad’s downfall, Syria’s uprising and civil war killed an estimated 500,000 people.
The US has gradually lifted some penalties since Assad departed Syria for protection in Russia. The Biden administration in December decided to drop a $10 million bounty it had offered for the capture of a Syrian opposition leader whose forces led the ouster of Assad last month.
Syria’s new leaders also have been urged to respect the rights of minorities and women. Many Syrian Christians, who made up 10% of the population before Syria’s civil war, either fled the country or supported Assad out of fear of insurgents.