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Tripoli does not expect any new initiatives to be proposed at the conference on Libya in Palermo, Italy, next month as the event will be aimed at supporting the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the country’s ambassador to the United States, Wafa Bughaighis, told Sputnik on Tuesday. Read More
By Tim Eaton
Reforms that seek to reduce the opportunities for diversion of state resources are welcome. But without addressing structural issues, their impact will be no more than temporary. Read More
By Tom Westcott
If you’re a migrant who has made your way into Libya, chances are you’ve met a Tebu. Read More
Their goal is to assert political control, seize territory and wrest economic spoils
Libyan forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA), Libya’s internationally recognized government, keep watch from a position south of the Libyan capital Tripoli. Read More
Perched on the edge of Libya’s Mediterranean coast, the ancient city of Sabrata remains an awe-inspiring spectacle, the pink columns of its amphitheatre towering above turquoise waters. Read More
By Kaleem Aftab
Director Naziha Arebi’s documentary follows a female team’s struggle for cultural acceptance. Read More
By Chris Stephen
Two suicide bombers fought their way into the National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) glass-fronted downtown headquarters in Tripoli on 10 September, spraying corridors with gunfire and killing two staff, with another 10 wounded. Read More
By Sally Hayden
Libya is treated as a ‘safe’ country, but in Tripoli refugees are starving and desperate – and the UN can’t get to them. Read More
We knew Libya would be tough. We set out to report on the re-emergence of the Islamic State group and the immigration crisis. The latter was particularly sensitive, since last November when CNN broadcast shocking video of slave auctions selling African migrants outside Tripoli. Read More
By Nikolaj Nielsen
Fewer refugees and migrants are leaving by boat from Libya to reach Italy – a development viewed by the EU as a partial success in terms of destroying the business model of people-smugglers. Read More
By Sudarsan Raghavan
The rise of “super militias,” which last month triggered the worst spasm of violence in the Libyan capital Tripoli in four years, has exposed the weakness of Western efforts to stabilize Libya while creating an opening for the Islamic State to resurrect itself in North Africa. Read More
By Christopher Livesay & Alessandro Pavone
African migrants fleeing to Europe risk slave traffickers, starvation and shipwreck. Read More
By Alessandra Bajec
Libyans in Tunisia find themselves in a mix of living a safe, comfortable life away from violence and much uncertainty to go back home, writes Alessandra Bajec. Read More
Perched on the edge of Libya’s Mediterranean coast, the ancient city of Sabratha remains an awe-inspiring spectacle, the pink columns of its amphitheatre towering above turquoise waters. Read More
It was hugely illustrative of the madness currently gripping Libya that a passing reference by the country’s foreign minister Mohamed Siala in a speech to the UN General Assembly should have been taken as a request for the UN to put peace-keeping boots on the ground. Read More
By Senussi Bsaikri
The war had stopped in the capital city, Tripoli, but it wasn’t announced how it was finished and on what basis the fighters had put the swords in their sheaths. Read More
By Dr. Mordechai Kedar & Dr. Dan Gottlieb
Post-Qaddafi Libya is divided between two governments, and the consequence of that division is mounting chaos. Europe, the US, Canada, and the UN will have to decide at what point it will be necessary to go back into Libya to restore order. Read More
Mr. T. Sayala’s appeal is logical, and quite understandable.
Despite difficulties, the head of Libyan diplomacy knows that his country is going through a critical phase, during which it is important for Tripoli to obtain the greatest number of international support. Read More
Fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli has ended, the city’s Security Directorate announced yesterday, after nearly a month of fierce clashes that left over 115 people dead and 560 others wounded. Read More
Dr. Mustafa Fetouri
French journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) once described the French Revolution by saying that, “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.” Look at Libya today and you will find that du Pan could not have been more accurate. Read More
Deadly clashes in Tripoli have stepped up pressure on Libya’s unity government to end its reliance on militias and to implement economic reforms. Read More
The city of Sirte, once the crowning jewel of the Islamic State in Libya, was part of the ISIS-controlled coastline from 2015 to 2016. Over a six-month offensive, Libyan security forces combined with U.S. airstrikes wiped out ISIS combatants from the area. Read More
As a number of conflicting and simultaneous narratives emerge, more news is emerging of the different possible reasons for the sudden lull in Tripoli’s militia war. Read More
By Policy Analysis Unit
On 26 August 2018, Tripoli faced the most violent clashes it had seen since the establishment of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), more than two years ago. Read More
At the invitation of French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian, Ministers and high representatives of 14 countries and organization gathered in New York on September 24, 2018. Read More
By Tsvetana Paraskova
Libya’s oil production has just hit its highest level since 2013, Sanalla said earlier this week. Read More
Libya’s crude oil production has hit a five-year high, bringing badly needed revenue to the violence-wracked country, but further gains will depend on stabilizing security and attracting foreign investment, the chairman of state-owned National Oil Corporation told S&P Global Platts. Read More
By Valentina Signori & Chiara Argenti
Libya has faced six years of political crisis with several local armed factions controlling different parts of the country, and prospects for Libya remain uncertain in the medium and long term. Read More
By Ibrahim Ahmed
France and Italy have had differences over how changes should be brought in Libya in the post-Moammar Gaddafi era. Read More
By Sophie Shevardnadze
It’s been seven years since Western powers toppled Gaddafi, leaving the country split and in tatters. Can unity in Libya ever be reached again? We talked to Mustafa Abushagur, the former deputy prime minister of Libya. Read More
By Michael Young
In an interview, Emadeddin Badi talks about today’s Libya, which faces both civil war and state collapse. Read More
By Sophie Shevardnadze
It’s been seven years since Western powers toppled Gaddafi, leaving the country split and in tatters. Can unity in Libya ever be reached again? We talked to Mustafa Abushagur, the former deputy prime minister of Libya. Read More
By John Lloyd
Doors are slamming all over the Western world; we shall not see them opened again in our life. Read More
REACH Initiative
On 26 August 2018, clashes broke out between rival armed groups in southern Tripoli, particularly in Salaheddin, Ain Zara, Mashroua Al Hadhba, and points south. Read More
By Hafed Al-Ghwell
Few people in Washington are as knowledgeable about Libya as Jonathan Winer, who was the United States special envoy to the country from 2013 to 2017. Read More
REACH Initiative
On 26 August 2018, clashes broke out between rival armed groups in southern Tripoli, particularly in Salaheddin, Ain Zara, Mashroua Al Hadhba, and points south. Read More