By Sami Zaptia.
A conference on Libya was held in Brussels yesterday under the banner ‘‘Peacebuilding and State-Building in Libya: What role for the European Union?’’. Read More
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Malta, a tiny archipelago nation in the southern Mediterranean, is so attractive to those looking to shelter funds or operate under the radar of authorities that it’s got a nickname to prove it: “treasure island.” Read More
By Maryline Dumas
Residents of Sirte are rebuilding their lives in the ruins left behind of a brutal period of Islamic State control. Read More
The Head of Justice and Construction Party in Libya, Mohamed Sowane, talks to “LIBYAPROSPECT” (LP) about his point of views and his party’s opinions regarding the Action Plan of the United Nations Envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame. Read More
The Libyan political and human rights activist, Emad Al-Deen Zehri, in the United States of America, called the Americans to call American citizens for investigations accusing them carrying out war crimes and financial thefts in Libya. Read More
By Karam Hilo
In this essay, Lebanese journalist Karam Hilo asks whether it is possible to apply the Western concept of democracy – as is – to the countries of the Arab world. Or does the unique political culture of this corner of the globe call for a certain degree of adaptation? Read More
By Charlotte Bailey
The dangers of selling “the wrong” kind of book in Libya are many and varied and yet one chain of bookshops is still open for business. Charlotte Bailey speaks to a bookseller in Tripoli. Read More
By Liesl Louw-Vaudran
Ahead of the AU-EU summit, statements about European commercial interests in Libya are unpalatable. Read More
Former Libyan Interior Minister Fawzi Abdul Ali said that ISIS has ended in his country as an emirate, but still exists as cells. Read More
By Abdulkader Assad
The Tripoli-based Special Deterrent Force (SDF) has arrested an individual named Al-Mabrouk Ehnish, whom it said is the commander of an armed group that entered Wershiffana district days ago. Read More
By Omar Shariff
Political fragmentation and the absence of state institutions in some lawless areas allow the group to flourish. The rivalry between the GNA and LNA has helped Daesh to resurrect itself in Libya.
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By Ibrahim Natil
Libya remains a country deeply divided, and there are many obstacles in the way of state building and peacemaking, though the challenges are not insurmountable. Read More
The Lebanese judge investigating the 1978 disappearance in Libya of Imam Musa Sadr has issued an arrest warrant for Qaddafi’s once close colleague Abdessalam Jalloud. Read More
By Daniel Howden
The central Mediterranean is now the busiest mixed migration route into Europe. The geography and the politics of the region have dictated roles for the main actors from the E.U. to member states Italy and Malta, as well as Libya and the countries on its southern borders in the Sahel. Read More
By Noor El-Terk
A new exhibition of pop-art from North Africa at London’s P21 Gallery hopes to challenge misconceptions of the region. Read More
By David Hearst
Leaked documents show the court looked into the exiled Fatah leader in 2012, for his alleged involvement with Saif al-Gaddafi. Read More
By Elissa Miller
Western stakeholders in Libya must fall in line with Salame and abandon the narrow pursuit of self-interest. Read More
By Daniel Howden
The central Mediterranean is now the busiest mixed migration route into Europe. The geography and the politics of the region have dictated roles for the main actors from the E.U. to member states Italy and Malta, as well as Libya and the countries on its southern borders in the Sahel. Read More
By Spencer S. Hsu
A CIA witness testified Tuesday that the body of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was returned after the September 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, only after he overheard Libyan militia members discussing whether to tell Americans about a dead compatriot at a hospital. Read More
By Daniel Howden
The central Mediterranean is now the busiest mixed migration route into Europe. The geography and the politics of the region have dictated roles for the main actors from the E.U. to member states Italy and Malta, as well as Libya and the countries on its southern borders in the Sahel. Read More
Victims’ campaigner Willie Frazer said progress has been made in securing compensation from Libya for IRA atrocities. Mr Frazer was part of a delegation which travelled to London yesterday to meet Minister of State for the Middle East, Alistair Burt MP. Read More
By Nick Squires
An Italian court has sentenced to life imprisonment a sadistic people smuggler who raped, tortured and murdered migrants trying to reach Europe from North Africa. Read More
By Jusoor
On October 8th and 9th 2017, the Egyptian capital hosted the launch of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Forum (WEEF) by MENA-OECD Competitiveness Programme. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
Libya woke up to the news Sept. 29 of a heinous crime in which four men from the country’s largest tribe had been murdered as they were driving back home from the town of Mizda, south of Tripoli, to Bani Walid in the west of the country. Read More
By Mary Fitzgerald and Tarek Megerisi
The question of housing, land and property rights is so difficult—and so important—because it touches on the fundamental question facing post-2011 Libya: what do Libyans want the new Libya to look like? Read More
By Mohamed Ibrahim
In a recent batch of leaks obtained by the French site; Mediapart – a telling reality is revealed of how former ICC prosecutor Luis Ocampo was hired by Libyan millionaire Hassan Tatanaki on a million dollar deal in 2015. Read More
By Francesca Mannocchi
The coastal town of Sabratha, 70 kilometres from Tripoli, is a principal hub for migrants from across the Middle East and Africa seeking a departure across the Mediterranean. Read More
By Mary Fitzgerald and Tarek Megerisi
The question of housing, land and property rights is so difficult—and so important—because it touches on the fundamental question facing post-2011 Libya: what do Libyans want the new Libya to look like? Read More
By Daniel Howden
The central Mediterranean is now the busiest mixed migration route into Europe. The geography and the politics of the region have dictated roles for the main actors from the E.U. to member states Italy and Malta, as well as Libya and the countries on its southern borders in the Sahel. Read More
By Mary Fitzgerald and Tarek Megerisi
The question of housing, land and property rights is so difficult—and so important—because it touches on the fundamental question facing post-2011 Libya: what do Libyans want the new Libya to look like? Read More
By Sana Soleman Elmansouri
“All they have to do is clear the dead bodies away, “Boris Johnson’s speech about the Libyan city of Sirte has had some mixed review. Read More
By Daniel Howden
Prologue: August 14 began calmly for Riccardo Gatti. On the first morning of a new search and rescue mission in the central Mediterranean, the former yachtsman turned activist walked the grayed wooden deck of the Golfo Azzurro, a trawler that has been stripped of its bulky fishing equipment to make space for life jackets and water bottles. Read More
Documents leaked from within the International Criminal Court (ICC) have shown how its chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, was not shy about seeking the help of the rich and famous in his work to hunt down war criminals around the world. Read More
By Elissa Miller and Andrea Taylor
Despite the signing of the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) in Skhirat in 2015, the political situation in Libya appears no closer to being resolved. Read More
By Mary Fitzgerald and Tarek Megerisi
The question of housing, land and property rights is so difficult—and so important—because it touches on the fundamental question facing post-2011 Libya: what do Libyans want the new Libya to look like? Read More
A Comparative Study of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
By: Noha Aboueldahab
The dramatic uprisings that ousted the long-standing leaders of several countries in the Arab region set in motion an unprecedented period of social, political and legal transformation. Read More