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Libya's 200-member national assembly will elect a new Prime Minister on Thursday, with eight candidates approved to stand in the poll.

The shortlisted runners, who were announced last week, are currently presenting their cases both to the public and to the politicians who will vote for them.

It has now been almost a year since the end of the conflict in Libya, and the country’s economy remains in a state of flux. Against the backdrop of a thorny political transition and a volatile security situation, the business environment has so far thrown up a rather mixed bag of opportunities for both local and foreign companies.

Libya’s Minister of Interior, Fawzi Abdul Ali, tendered his resignation on 26 August following a series of violent attacks on Sufi shrines in Tripoli and Zliten.

Libya's outgoing National Transitional Council (NTC) officially handed over power to the newly-elected assembly on 8 August after a ceremony in Tripoli.

The National Transitional Council (NTC), formed in February 2011 at the start of the Libyan uprising, will officially hand over power to the National Congress on Wednesday night.

The transfer of power will be marked with an official ceremony to be held at the conference centre adjoining the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.

Algeria's Sonatrach and Germany’s RWE Dea have both recently issued packages of tenders related to their planned oil and gas exploration programmes.

Last week the interim government launched a tender process for a 10-year waste processing and collection contract covering most major Libyan towns and cities. Although there is no timetable for when the contract may be awarded, it cannot start soon enough.

Late on 18 July the High National Election Commission (HNEC) held a press conference in Tripoli to announce the full results of the 7 July vote for Libya’s new General National Congress (GNC).

The announcement confirmed that the National Forces Alliance (NFA), a broad coalition headed by Mahmoud Jibril, who held senior economic posts under the Gaddafi regime before playing a prominent political role in last year’s uprising, was the most successful of the parties running in the elections.

Last week the IMF released a series of updated forecasts for Libya’s macroeconomic performance and state finances. In the absence of any detailed projections from the interim Libyan government, the figures provide one of the few reference points for the country's broad financial and economic outlook in the years ahead.