By Anna Baldinetti
This article is part of a 7-part series assessing the prospects and challenges for the study of North Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring. Read More
By Jesselyn Cook
Amnesty International accuses European governments of complicity in Libya’s corrupt system. Read More
Rights group Amnesty International says European nations are taking steps to prevent refugees and migrants from crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, trapping them in a system that exposes them to torture and abuse. Read More
When Libyan-Canadian medical doctor and peace builder Dr. Alaa Murabit, newly appointed as Sustainable Development Advocate by the United Nations secretary-general, took a seat in front of her nameplate at a U.N. event, she was quickly shooed away by an intern who insisted that Dr. Murabit was a “he.” Read More
By Keiran Southern
The convicted former leader of an Islamist terror group has won a legal battle to sue British security services over his attempted deportation to Libya. Read More
By Kamal Tawil
Libya’s former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril is currently getting ready to participate again in the Libyan elections. Read More
By Karlos Zurutuza
Abu Kammash was run into the ground before being abandoned by the state in 2010. Locals say its legacy is poison, disease and suffering. Read More
By Arwa Damon, Brent Swails and Brice Laine
For three years, she was forced to work as a prostitute on the streets of Moscow, repaying a $45,000 debt to the trafficker who brought her from Nigeria. Read More
Let me briefly outline four scenarios that are likely to characterize a post-ISIS Middle East and define it as Living on the Edge. These four scenarios are headlined under the following: Read More
The United Nations Envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, met in Tripoli, on Wednesday, Libyan intellectuals and journalists to talk about the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) action plan to achieve the stability in Libya. Read More
The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham is rebuilding its military power and establishing a safe haven in central Libya as Libyan factions focus on securing their political interests on the populated coast. Read More
Libya’s internationally recognized government has appealed to the United States to drop or ease a travel ban imposed on its citizens by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Read More
Some of the supporters of the commander of the Dignity Operation, General Khalifa Haftar, destroyed the boards of the elections centres in the city of Benghazi on Friday. Read More
By Phyllis Bennis
The story of slavery in Africa, like slavery in so many other parts of the world, is a painful chronicle whose origins go back centuries. It’s not a new phenomenon. But the issue got a rush of new attention recently, when video of an apparently open-air slave market in Libya appeared on CNN. Read More
By Nedal M. Swehli
In yet another attempt to resolve Libya’s war, on September 20, the United Nations presented a new Action Plan for Libya, supposedly to form a legitimate, functioning, and unified government. Read More
Killings, Destruction Amid Impunity
Sufi religious sites are under assault in Libya, with two mosques in Tripoli heavily damaged by unidentified forces over the past two months, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More
By Amira Fathalla
One year on from a military campaign that successfully expelled so-called Islamic State (IS) from its Libyan stronghold of Sirte, residents have complained of the scale of destruction that remains. Read More
On 28 November, the UN Security Council held a meeting to discuss the reports of migrant slave auctions in Libya. Read More
By Missy Ryan
Libya, facing increasing pressure over the mistreatment of migrants seeking a path to Europe, will work to crack down on human smugglers, but European nations must do more to address illegal migration, the head of Libya’s U.N.-backed government said this week. Read More
On Nov. 17, CNN broadcast a video showing traders buying and selling migrants from West Africa for a few hundred dollars in a Libyan marketplace. Read More
By Noura Hamladji
After years of conflict, much of Libya’s basic infrastructure has broken down. Read More
By Sami Zaptia
Libya Herald’s Co-founder and Managing Editor Sami Zaptia was invited by the organizers of the Rome 2017 Mediterranean Dialogues (29 November to 2 December) to interview in front of a live audience Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN (SRSG) and UNSMIL head Ghassan Salame. Read More
Libya is moving forward into a political transitional period starting with the recent agreement to UN Special Representative Ghassan Salame’s proposal for amendments to the executive authority and a constitution referendum awaiting a vote the House of Representatives to hold it. Read More
Six years after Qaddafi’s death, the Libyan crisis has not been solved. The country continues to be divided between a parliament (and executive) in Tobruk and a Presidential Council (headed by Fayez al-Serraj) in Tripoli that is backed by the United Nations. Read More
By Dr. Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
In 2015, the political meltdown that defined the European response to the global refugee crises, laid bare dilemmas long in the making. Read More
By Sophia Akram
European leaders have prioritised halting the flow of migrants to Europe and have pushed thousands into the hands of slave traffickers. The outrage now expressed is hollow. Now action is needed. Read More
By Oswa Shafei
Growing up, nobody knew on a map where I was from. “Libya,” I told them, and always immediately followed up with, “It’s next to Egypt”. Read More
By Bridget Johnson
Defense Secretary Jame Mattis declared Thursday that Libya is “going back in the right direction” while welcoming Prime Minister Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj to the Pentagon on his first official visit. Read More
CBL board member Tarik Yousef (left) said the Libyan dinar will be devalued in parallel with other policy reforms (Photo: Sami Zaptia). Read More
U.N. Libya envoy Ghassan Salame Saturday urged the conflict-torn country to seize an opportunity to forge its own path toward hoped-for elections next year while “international interference” is declining. Read More
By Abdelkader Assad
Since 2014, Libya has been a country for proxy wars and agenda-driven conflicts with too many hands trying to move the country to their side. Read More
By Julia Vergin
The plan to evacuate refugees stuck in Libya’s camps will not work in practice, says Franziska Vilmar of the German branch of Amnesty International. It has only been designed to help the EU shirk its responsibilities. Read More
By Nader Elgadi
It was a cold and quiet Tripoli evening in January 2013, almost two years after the fall of Gaddafi. Fireworks exploded in the sky, shopkeepers rolled down metal shutters on their shops to go home. Read More
An historic Koranic school and small mosque in Tripoli was set on fire and badly damaged this morning. Read More
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The military contractor and Trump ally Erik Prince, who has faced scrutiny for his human rights record, has a ‘humane’ proposal to try to stop the flow of migrants. Read More
Libya has reached a deal with European and African leaders to allow the emergency repatriation of refugees and migrants facing abuse in detention camps in the North African country. Read More