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
The UN sponsored peace plan is being modified by what is actually happening in Libya. Read More
Stratfor Founder and Chairman George Friedman and Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan discuss the fraying of nation-state entities and the rise of sectarianism across the Middle East. Read More
By Chris Stephen
The head of the country’s National Oil Corporation is succeeding in pushing output higher against the odds, only for its ubiquitous militias to push it back down again Read More
A United Nations team of experts said they have documented operations at a base run by the United Arab Emirates in eastern Libya. Read More
By John H. T. Stewart
The leader of Nigeria’s Presidential Committee on Small Arms, Major-General (Rtd.) Olunaseun Olayinka Oshinowo, at the head of a 5-man visiting delegation, has expressed grave concern about the missing whereabouts of the very large inventory of sophisticated arms and ammunition maintained by deposed Gaddafi.” Where are the arms from Libya?” he asked. Read More
By Jamie Prentis
The Amazigh, or Berbers, Libya’s largest minority group, experienced harsh treatment under Gadhafi’s regime. Gadhafi’s so-called cultural revolution in 1973 criminalized Amazigh traditions, prohibited the use of their native tongue, Tamazight, and declared the Amazigh to be Arabs despite their being indigenous to the land. 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 Michel Cousins
There have been increasingly bitter clashes in the southern Libyan city of Sebha between the Tebu community and a military unit composed largely of members of the major Arab tribe in the area, Awlad Suleiman, and which is linked to the Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. Read More