By Aidan Lewis
Libya’s telecoms utility has been reunified after years divided by conflict and is starting work on projects worth $1.7 billion to improve connections across a country hit by power outages and infrastructure damage, its chairman said. Read More
By Ghaith Shennib & Caroline Alexander
In Sabha, gateway to Libya’s south and its largest oil field, the sounds of warfare have been echoing through low-slung buildings and wide streets day and night for more than a month. Read More
While a spirit of optimism was taking hold in Libya, even amid persistent security concerns, a predatory economic system — including the oil smuggling and human trafficking — must be overcome if elections in 2018 were to succeed in restoring peace and stability, the United Nations senior official in the country told the Security Council today. Read More
The United Nations should urge the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord and competing authorities in eastern Libya to create conditions conducive to a free and fair vote before rushing to hold general elections in 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More
By Richard Norton-Taylor
Britain must disclose why it is refusing to prosecute a senior officer of its foreign intelligence agency, MI6, over the abduction of a leading Libyan dissident, the country’s most senior judges were told on Thursday. Read More
Former French president faces probe over campaign funds
By Karim Mezran
Commentators and analysts have long wondered about the speed with which France acted to support rebels that rose up against Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s longtime leader, in the spring of 2011. Read More
By Martin Jay
Libya has become one of the largest black market arms suppliers in the world, and a center for sex trafficking and slavery since the Western intervention in 2011. More importantly, it is a cautionary tale of the West’s failed adventurism. Read More
By Emiliano Bellini
Libya’s Misurata Free Zone is resorting to solar to increase its energy independence, with support being provided by U.S.-based energy consultancy, iQ Power. Read More
By Wolfgang Pusztai
Libya is a country in chaos, with a civil war raging in some parts of it. Several regions are virtually inaccessible for foreigners, many cities are the scene of frequent fighting between militias, while others are ruled by criminal gangs. Read More
By Jamie Merrill
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday as part of an investigation into claims that he received millions of euros in illegal financing from Gaddafi, a legal source told AFP. Read More
The Ennahda Movement recently organised an annual youth symposium in the city of Hammamet in which 5,000 members participated, contributing towards electing their representatives in the executive office of the movement and the rest of the movement’s institutions. Read More
Misrata Fee Zone Authority (MFZ) has signed an exclusive joint venture agreement with Mabco Holdings to develop and expand the MFZ. No value of the contract was mentioned. Read More
(Top) Memorandum of Understanding and twinning of the municipalities of Bouslim and Bentbiya
By Karim Mezran & Frank Talbot
The political situation in Libya has slowly reached one of apparent paralysis while the military situation is continually evolving with frequent clashes across the country. Read More
In the final communique at the end of their two-day meeting in Tripoli, Municipality and Local Council leaders today called on the Judicial High Council of Libya to take over the running of the country – if the House of Representatives and the High State Council fail to reach agreement. Read More
By Tsvetana Paraskova
Eni will reduce its oil production in Libya to 200,000 bpd in 2021 from the current 320,000 bpd, Claudio Descalzi, chief executive of the Italian oil major, said at the presentation of the group’s 2018-2021 business plan. Read More
By Eric de Lavarène
They call it the “Café of the Displaced,” and it’s always full. “It’s because my customers followed me here,” says Ahmed, a smile on his face as he pours a clever blend of coffee, cream, cocoa powder and sugar. Read More
By Anna Corradi
Libyan politics and governance have been unstable and chaotic for the past eight years. Read More
By Lamine Ghanmi
Tribal leaders said that the presence of “foreign fighters” fuelled the violence and threatened Libyan territorial unity. Read More
On 8 March, details started to emerge from the UN Libya Experts Panel report regarding not only the scale of corruption in Libya’s banking and financial institutions, but also their administrative inadequacies. Read More
Mat Nashed
The global community and several Libyan politicians are pushing for Libyan elections by the end of this year, despite the danger of plunging the country torn by civil war deeper into turmoil. Read More
By Ahmed Elumami
Libya’s naval forces seized a Togo-flagged fuel tanker and arrested its Greek crew on suspicion they planned to smuggle oil out of the North African country, a spokesman for the forces said on Thursday. Read More
At a press conference yesterday, the head of the Investigations Department of the Attorney General’s Office, Saddik Al-Sour said that the smuggling of Libyan fuel is carried out as part of an organized international network linking Libya and Europe. Read More
By Justin Salhani
Italy went to the polls March 4 and overwhelmingly voted for populist parties. While a government has yet to be formed, Italian-Libyan relations could be set for some real changes. Read More
The UAE has reportedly drained $10 billion from Libya’s frozen funds in Belgium and given it in support of military strongman Khalifa Haftar, according to Mohamed Amazab, the second deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the State of Libya. Read More
By Tareq Baconi
Critically, the Central Bank must become more transparent when it comes to the management of Libya’s oil wealth.
Abo watched his mother being killed by members of a gang known as ‘Asma Boys’ in Sabratha, Libya, his father Mammi said. Read More
(above photo) French troops in southern Libya in January 2015 (AFP)
By Hassina Mechaï
MSF’s Rony Brauman speaks to MEE about what decades of aid work have taught him about the problems of humanitarian interventions. Read More
By Mohamad Elbardicy
The UN report indicates that Egypt and the UAE have violated the arms embargo in their support of General Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Libya. Read More
By Roberto Aliboni
In Libya, the UN mediation among the parties in conflict has opened up opportunities, but is still hindered by three main factors:
By James Politi, Kathrin Hille, and Borzou Daragahi
Matteo Renzi, Italy’s prime minister, pleaded for Russian help to resolve the escalating security crisis in Libya, marking a fresh diplomatic approach to Moscow after months of EU pressure to curb its behaviour in Ukraine. Read More
By Karim Mezran
A major question, and threat, facing Libya today is the eventuality of a disappearance of the state as it has been known for the past 60 years. Read More
By Aidan Lewis
Two of Libya’s largest oilfields with combined production of nearly 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) have suffered shutdowns in quick succession, casting fresh doubt on a partial recovery in the OPEC member’s oil output. Read More
For a moment, between 2012 and 2014, it looked as if Libya was heading for a brighter future. Read More
By Eric Schmitt
The United States military has carried out twice as many airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya since President Trump took office as it has publicly acknowledged, raising questions about whether the Pentagon has sought to obscure operations in the strife-torn North African nation. Read More
By Sami Rahman
Sami Rahman lists the Muslim women from around the world clocking up millions of views for their TED talks addressing rights, religion and rebellion and more. Read More
By Elissa Miller
Since the fall of Qaddafi in 2011, Libya has become a hub of instability in North Africa. This instability impacts not only Libya but also has clear implications for the entire African continent, as well as Libya’s European neighbors to the north. Read More