By Matt Smith
Back in December we discussed how US oil inventories had been drawn down by a hundred million barrels from their peak last March, channeling Dr Evil from Austin Powers. Read More
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By Emadeddin Zahri Muntasser
The United States is supporting UN-mediated dialogue in Libya in the hopes of resolving the festering disputes among the country’s warring parties. Read More
By Aaron Y. Zelin
This new study offers a deeper understanding of the foreign-fighter phenomenon, its evolution, and its potential trajectories. Read More
Chaos turns dollars into nearly worthless dinars, says NOC’s Sanalla
By Damien McElroy
The head of Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) has warned his country’s revival has been put at risk by corrupt politicians and savage militias that have caused chaos and made the dinar worthless. Read More
By Sella Oneko
A single African air transport market, promises to fight corruption and plans to address the continent’s crises dominated the African Union summit. But with a full agenda for 2018, how much will the AU manage? Read More
By Jalel Harchaoui
Libya never transitioned into a functioning state after the NATO-Arab military intervention ended in October 2011. Read More
By Fabian Wagner
On a hot November evening last year, I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football star Didier Drogba was urging hundreds of local youth to chant, “I promise I won’t migrate! I promise I won’t migrate! I promise I won’t migrate!” Read More
By Jack Barton
A series of violent attacks across Libya in recent weeks have left dozens dead. While the attacks have garnered little attention in the West, observers told WikiTribune they illustrate a country in which a UN mediation process looks to be failing in the face of violent schisms. Read More
Mystery surrounds the contents of a cargo ship from Libya which was last night due to dock at the Ministry of Defence’s massive weapons storage facility on Loch Long. Read More
Strong cooperation with the African Union (AU) is essential for the United Nations to be able to fulfill its mandate, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the two organizations signed a new agreement to bolster their collaboration on range of global issues. Read More
The Libyan dinar surged to new recent highs against the major hard currencies, touching LD 4.80 per US dollar yesterday. It will be recalled that it was trading at as high as LD 9.70 per dollar in December last year. Read More
By Arnaud Delalande
Khalifa Haftar, head of the so called “Libyan National Army” — a top contender for control of Libya — has launched a retaliatory offensive targeting Sudanese and Chadian militias in the war-torn country’s south. Read More
By Jamie Dettmer
Revolutions have a nasty habit of taking off in unexpected directions, Friedrich Engels noted more than a century ago. The morning after, people realize “the revolution they made was nothing like the one they had wanted to make.” Read More
By Casper Wuite
Libya has been marred by violent chaos ever since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011. Political power has since split between two rival governments, in Tobruk and Tripoli. Read More
Mahmoud al-Werfalli is wanted by the ICC for war crimes
By Nadine Dahan
The United Nations Libya mission demanded on Thursday the immediate surrender of Mahmoud al-Werfalli after fresh footage emerged of him personally carrying out summary executions. Read More
Pictures emerge online to show militants executing nine people at scene where car bombings took place. Read More
By George Joffé
The vast majority of comment on the role of political Islam in North Africa focuses on the activities of extremist groups there, particularly with respect to Libya, the Sahara and the Sahel. Read More
By Aaron Y. Zelin
This new study offers a deeper understanding of the foreign-fighter phenomenon, its evolution, and its potential trajectories. Read More
By Karim Mezran & Frank Talbot
The impression that the political situation in Libya is stalled is widespread. Read More
By Ryan Butcher
Explosions occurred around 10 to 15 minutes apart with both military personnel and civilians falling victim, officials say. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey and Katherine Pollock
In Libya, recent attacks against Sufi targets have been driven by doctrine, but also socioeconomic resentment. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
Several politicians, ministers, diplomats and high-ranking civil servants who were once a part of the Libyan revolution now find themselves in different circumstances. Read More
By Aaron Y. Zelin
This new study offers a deeper understanding of the foreign-fighter phenomenon, its evolution, and its potential trajectories. Read More
By Ghaith Shennib, Saleh Sarrar, and Lin Noueihed
Libya’s powerful black market traders are encountering an unfamiliar sight: people showing up with bundles of dollars for sale. Read More
By Safa Alharathy
Warlord Khalifa Haftar is having a pretty hard time after supporters and aides are continuing to stream out of his camp, the latest was Mohamed Buisier, his former political adviser. Read More
By Aaron Y. Zelin
This new study offers a deeper understanding of the foreign-fighter phenomenon, its evolution, and its potential trajectories. Read More
By Ayman al-Warfalli
As military deminers warily picked their way through streets wrecked by war in Benghazi, a loud blast rang out – a familiar sound in the Libyan city, areas of which are riddled with deadly explosives and booby traps. Read More
At the end of December, Libya’s prime minister in Tripoli, Fayez Serraj, announced that Libyan families displaced from the town of Tawergha since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011 could return home. Read More
Amid the global outcry over hellish migrant camps in Libya, many African leaders have accused the country of racism and crimes against their African “brothers”. Read More
By Nikolaj Nielsen
The EU is condemning people to “nightmarish conditions” in Libya by training its coastguard to prevent them from fleeing towards Europe, according to Human Rights Watch. Read More
Libya earned $14 billion in oil revenues in 2017, nearly three times more than in the previous year, allowing it to halve its budget deficit, the central bank said, amid a partial recovery in oil output despite continued political and economic turmoil. Read More
Extrajudicial Killings, Arbitrary Detentions, Migration Crisis
Armed groups and some forces affiliated with two rival Libyan governments vying for legitimacy are committing rampant abuses against Libyans and foreigners with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2018. Read More
Political divisions and armed strife continued to plague Libya as two governments vied for legitimacy and control of the country, and United Nations’ efforts to unify the feuding parties flagged. Read More
By Salma El Wardany and Laura Hurst
Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc agreed annual deals to buy Libyan crude, underscoring how the North African country’s recovering production and improving security are enticing some of the world’s largest oil companies. Read More
By Taylor Luck
The fundamentalist Madkhalis, who supported Qaddafi until the end, have fought hard to prevent ISIS from establishing a base in Libya. But experts warn of their influence on society and aim of establishing a theocracy. Read More
By Nadine Dahan
Experts say the fighting proves once again the impossibility of holding elections in the fragmented country. Read More