Egyptian Minister of Manpower, Mohamed Saafan announced that the first batch of Egyptian workers arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday.
Saafan told Independent Arabia that a technical team from the ministry visited Tripoli to “lay the foundations for the electronic link between the two countries. This aims to provide facilities to limit the places of work of expatriate workers, prevent their exploitation, or allow them to fall victim to illegal immigration.”
Meanwhile, Head of the Division of Employment Abroad in the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce, Abdel-Rahim Al-Mursi said that about one million Egyptian workers will be initially deployed to Libya. He expects that the number will increase to 3 million workers within about two years.
Al-Mursi revealed that a large delegation of government and private companies will visit Tripoli in November, and expects reconstruction work to begin in December.
Notably, the Libyan government, headed by Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba visited Egypt in September, where contracts worth about $4 billion dollars were signed. Among the most prominent projects is the construction of the 250 km Ajdabiya-Jalu road.
Libya and Egypt also agreed on consultancy work to implement the Mellitah power station. They also signed a project for the implementation of the C-Ring Road, one of the most important projects in Libya.
In September, The Libyan Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, Ali Al-Abed, said that Libya is ready to receive one million Egyptian workers from today. This came in light of the agreements and contracts signed in Cairo between the two countries, according to the Al-Ahram newspaper.