The Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William J Burns, has demanded that the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, should cooperate with the Government of National Unity in Tripoli headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and enable it to operate in eastern Libya. This, said Burns, will preserve the principle of “the unity of the country’s executive institutions.” Read More
Amr Wagdy
On 24 December 2022, Libyans celebrated the 71st anniversary of their country’s independence, in light of the sharp political division the country has been experiencing since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011. Read More
Miral Sabry Al Ashry
The Minister of Oil and Gas in Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohamed Aoun, wants to increase investment in Libya because it is the first step toward increasing oil production. Read More
Patrick Wintour
UN special envoys to meet in Washington as figures show Libyan politicians’ salaries rose by more than 40% in 2022. Read More
Abdullah Alkabir
The bet on the House of Representatives and the High Council of State to hold elections have failed many times. Read More
Islam Alatrash
The populated areas near the oil fields in northeast Libya are suffering from pollution resulting from oil-related operations, in the absence of any action from authorities. Read More
Thomas M. Hill & Martin Pimentel
Charged with bringing peace to Libya, the U.N. body was never set up for success — it’s time to rethink its mandate. Read More
Ufuk Necat Tasci
The 24th of December marked Libya’s independence day, which was widely celebrated by Libyans and prominent political figures with joy and positivity. However, the day also has another significance; it was the postponed date for Libya’s long-awaited elections in 2021. Read More
Hafed Al Ghwell
A new year is upon us but for the people of Libya, and the meddlesome congress of external actors desperately seeking dividends from years-long interference in Libyan affairs, we might as well be back in 2013. Read More
Mustapha Dalaa, Mahmut Arrived
UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathiliy called on the UNSC to create alternative mechanisms for the elections to take place if the Libyan State Supreme Council and the TM cannot reach an agreement. Read More
Mustafa Abdullah Abdulrahman Bashir
The term “Tuareg” refers to tribes and nomads who speak dialects of Tuareg and live in Targa, an area in southwest Libya recently renamed Wadi Al-Hayat but previously known as Wadi Ajal. Read More
YASAR YAKIS
Egypt last month announced that it had redefined the border of its exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Libya. Read More
Year ahead poses challenges to grapple with unprecedented unpredictability compounded by COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine war. Read More
Nour Alhajjeh & Alissa Pavia
Libya has endured ten years of turmoil, lack of stability, foreign interference, and internal strife. Read More
Asma Khalifa
The 2021 agreement on holding elections was perceived by many Libyans as the light at the end of the dark tunnel of civil war and a reset to the political stagnation and the legal crisis. Read More
Jason Burke
Extradition of Sanussi over Lockerbie bombing would have closely followed that of Mohammed Abouagela Masud. Read More
The EU’s Struggle to Strengthen the Libyan Security Sector
Matteo Colombo & Nienke van Heukelingen
Rethinking the EU approach
How can the EU turn the tide and actually support Libya in strengthening and rebuilding a national police force? Based on our interviews and desk research, we identified three avenues that the EU could explore. Read More
An unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya has enabled fighters of the Tariq Ben Zeyad (TBZ) armed group to commit war crimes, and other crimes under international law, with the aim of crushing any challenge to the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), the de facto authorities controlling vast swathes of the divided country, Amnesty International said today as it releases a new briefing. Read More
Matthew Agius & Karl Azzopardi
The private military contractors were arrested before boarding a private flight to Libya • The group were later released from arrest without charge, but were not allowed to go through Maltese airspace in transit to the war-torn North African country. Read More
The EU’s Struggle to Strengthen the Libyan Security Sector
Matteo Colombo & Nienke van Heukelingen
Rebuilding Libya’s Security Architecture: A Ten-Year EU Effort
The previous section showed that the situation concerning the national police in West Libya is very complex, where the absence of order equals widespread violence and, to some extent, anarchy. Read More
Mark Bain
On Saturday, December 17, 1983 a car bomb ripped through one of the busiest streets in London that was packed with Christmas shoppers. Read More
AbdelBaset Ghabara
On the afternoon of June 25, 2014, lawyer and human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis from the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, called on her citizens, through live television and social media, to participate in the parliamentary elections, as a means to activate community participation and engagement, which she saw as a way to overcome the cycle of political and ideological differences and reach effective solutions and alternatives. Read More
The EU’s struggle to strengthen the Libyan security sector
Matteo Colombo & Nienke van Heukelingen
Contested Authority: The Libyan Police Today
Despite the current relative calm, the overall security conditions of Libya have not improved much. Read More
Miral Sabry Al Ashry
The Libyan legislative elections of 2022 came after the failure of the presidential elections that were to be held on December 24, 2021. Read More
The first step to legitimacy and security in Libya is to allow registered voters to cast their ballot in fresh elections, UN Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily told the Security Council on Friday. Read More
Muhittin Ataman
Sooner or later, Western countries will be forced to follow different and maybe conflicting policies regarding the Libyan crisis. Read More
The EU’s struggle to strengthen the Libyan security sector
Matteo Colombo & Nienke van Heukelingen
More than ten years after the ousting of Gaddafi, the Libyan police under the Ministry of Interior are still struggling to effectively carry out their duties across the country. Read More
Hafed Al-Ghwell
In the decade following the collapse of the Qaddafi regime in 2011, Libya has not had a single day of peace, as varying actors persistently vie for power and control, especially over the North African country’s most lucrative export, oil. Read More
Omar Hammady
On Dec 6th, Libya ‘s HoR adopted a law establishing a constitutional court to be based in Benghazi & transforming the Tripoli-based Supreme Court into a Cassation Court. Read More
Abdullah Alkabir
Organizing the World Cup in an Arab Muslim country sparked the spite of the European Middle Ages against the Arab-Islamic region, so media campaigns were launched disparaging Qatar, questioning its organizing capabilities, and disseminating unreal numbers of deaths among workers building World Cup facilities. Read More
Anas El-Gomati
Shadow State-lords: Infrastructure and Influence
Libya’s economy is heavily dependent on the oil sector. Oil receipts account for nearly 95% of the country’s budget, with between 60-80% of the country’s workforce on the public payroll: oil remains the backbone of the economy, whilst paradoxically fuelling the conflict that brought it to its knees. Read More
Adam Goldman
A Libyan intelligence operative charged in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, was arrested by the F.B.I. and is being extradited to the United States to face prosecution for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history, officials said on Sunday. Read More
Anas El-Gomati
Over a decade has passed since the 17 February Libyan revolution, and the disintegration of the Gaddafi regime’s centralised state into a fractured post-revolution state characterised by political divisions, repeated civil wars, and an economy of predation. Read More
Wolfram Lacher
Post-Qadhafi Politics
The momentous changes in the political scene raise questions concerning the nature of politics during the transitional period. Which actors are likely to dominate the transition, and along which lines will political mobilization occur? Read More
Wolfram Lacher
Cities and Tribes
From the beginning of the revolution, there was much controversy among observers over the role of tribal allegiances. While some have described the Libyan civil war in exclusively tribal terms and argued that it will be decided by tribal loyalties, others have utterly dismissed the idea that the urban young men who led the revolution on the battlefield could attach any importance to tribal identity. Read More
The region of Libya most affected by the migratory flow towards Italy is the western one. Indeed, it is from the coasts of Tripolitania that most of the boats leave for Lampedusa and Sicily. Read More