Felicity Bradstock
Libya’s oil output is finally increasing following the political crisis that restarted earlier this year following the failed Presidential elections of December 2021. Read More
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Dr Mustafa Fetouri
This week is the eleventh anniversary of the date that Libyan rebels armed, trained and supplied by Western countries entered the capital Tripoli under NATO air cover. The fall of Tripoli was a turning point in the conflict which ended with the murder of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as he made his last stand in his hometown Sirte. NATO ended its operations in the North African country but did nothing to counter the militias that it helped to create, and left Libya hostage to the gunmen. Read More
Tsvetana Paraskova
- Libya ramps up production to 1.1 million bpd following the resumption of exports.
- NOC looks to reach ‘normal’ rates of 1.2 million bpd within the next two weeks.
- The recent rivalry over control of the National Oil Company continues in the background.
Mustafa Fetouri
According to a statement published on 13 July by Ministry of State for Women Affairs in Libya, seven women in seven different parts of the country were murdered between 4 July and 8 July. Read More
Bilgehan Öztürk
Analysis: A leadership reshuffle in Libya’s state oil firm will see Dbeibah’s government of national unity gain greater control over revenues, with Ankara and Abu Dhabi’s interests converging in the country’s power struggle. Read More
Turkey sees Libya as a whole and is in favor of stability and political reconciliation in the war-torn country, Turkey’s Ambassador to Tripoli Kenan Yılmaz said Monday. Read More
The MED This Week newsletter provides expert analysis and informed comments on the MENA region’s most significant issues and trends. Today, we turn the spotlight upon Libya, looking at the end of a three-month oil blockade in the country as well as the recent clashes among militias in Tripoli and Misrata. Read More
Reflecting on the UN’s strategic role as an international partner in Libya and identifying the UN’s comparative advantages and limitations with its current mandate. Read More
Umar A Farooq
Multiple Libyan families filed lawsuits against Haftar in US courts, accusing him of torturing and killing their relatives. Read More
Mustapha Dalaa
The oil ports in Libya, which had been closed for about 3 months, were reopened on 12 July with the dismissal of Mustafa Sanallah, the Chairman of the Libyan National Petroleum Corporation (NOC), and the appointment of Ferhat bin Kıdara, who is close to the eastern camp. Read More
Tunisian President Kais Saied is set to secure more power under a new constitution that is expected to pass in a referendum on Monday, in what critics fear is a march to one-man rule over a country that rose up against dictatorship in 2010. Read More
Reflecting on the UN’s strategic role as an international partner in Libya and identifying the UN’s comparative advantages and limitations with its current mandate. Read More
Karim Mezran
Tunisia is experiencing one of its most difficult moments since its independence from France in 1956. On July 25, Tunisians will be called to express—through a referendum—their acceptance or rejection of a new constitution proposed by President Kais Saied to seemingly transform the country from a parliamentary system to a presidential one. Read More
Moin Kikhia
Escalating tensions threaten to hurl the country back into civil war, and will have consequences for Europe and the wider international community. Read More
A food crisis is creating a new refugee crisis
Nicholas Krohley
Across Africa, the threats of population growth, resource scarcity, and conflict are endemic. Vast population movements have already occurred as a result. Read More
Malik Traina
Fighting in Tripoli and Misrata has left at least 17 dead over the last. Read More
Salma El Wardany
- Libya’s crude production is rising after deal to restart oil.
- Oil production has halved since mid-April on protests.
Security sector’s accountability through civilian control and oversight
In the present legal briefing, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) analyzes the Libyan legal framework regulating the military, security forces and the intelligence services, which at present does not fully comply with international law and standards. Read More
Security sector’s accountability through civilian control and oversight
Federica Saini Fasanotti
“The history of Libyan politics today is one of a population desperate to rid itself of a parasitic nouveau elite class before they hollow out the country through corruption and reshape Libyan society in their own grotesquely venal image”. Read More
Samy Magdy
The Moroccan man had been stopped before at sea in his multiple attempts to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe. But his most recent time was different. The Libyan force that intercepted the boat full of some 50 migrants was more brutal. Read More
Alex MacDonald
Analyst says the vital National Oil Corporation, which became financially independent in 2020, is key battleground between political rivalries
A crisis is brewing at Libya’s state oil company after the organisation’s current head refused to give up his post following the appointment of his successor by the country’s Tripoli-based government. Read More
Michael Robbins
That’s what Arab Barometer finds in its latest wave of surveys across 10 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Read More
Simon Watkins
- Ousting of NOC chairman Sanalla may not lead to more stability in Libyan oil exports.
- Libya produced around 650,000 bpd of crude in June.
- Ongoing disagreement about a fair distribution of the country’s oil and gas revenues continues to be one of the main underlying problems.
Hazem Tharwat
After a two-month stoppage, crude oil is once again being shipped out of ports from Libya, the result of an internationally-sponsored deal between Government of National Unity Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbaiba and the son of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, Saddam Haftar. Read More
Ufuk Necat Tasci
Libya has been divided by powerful elites for years, will a deal between renegade commander Haftar and PM Dbeibah end that? Read More
By Jessie Williams, Sarah Habershon & Becky Dale
Arabs are losing faith in democracy to deliver economic stability across the Middle East and North Africa, according to a major new survey. Read More
Karim Mezran
The crisis in Libya has often been described as a proxy war, that is, a conflict where foreign actors support and equip a certain faction or a number of factions in a third country and exert all efforts to see their faction(s) overcome the others and ascend to power. The purpose is obviously to expand a country’s power and influence. Read More
Ashraf Boudoura
Restoring a symbolic monarch may sound anachronistic, but after a decade of division and chaos, it makes perfect sense to many Libyans. Read More
Emadeddin Badi
2022 marked the beginning of a new phase of political manoeuvring in Libya. Read More
Mauro Indelicato
In front of the Tobruck parliament building , the rubble is still smoking. On Friday , the assault by demonstrators against the building that since 2014 has housed what is considered the “Lower House” of Libyan institutions left a considerable mark. Read More
Ufuk Necat Tasci
Analysis: Protests over economic conditions are exacerbating a political crisis in the country, which remains deeply polarised amid the rising possibility of armed conflict. Read More
Malak Altaeb
When addressing Libya’s natural resources, the first thing that comes to mind is fossil fuels. Read More
Tarek Megerisi
Libyans have always had a proud sense of exceptionalism. Despite attempts to compare Libya to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and even uprisings from France to Russia, their own revolution has long retained this sense of exceptionalism, too. Today, however, over eleven years later, the dust has settled upon a much more mundanely tyrannical new world. Read More
Anas El Gomati
In March, the establishment of a new administration parallel with Abdelhamid Dbeibah’s United Nations-backed Government of National Unity (GNU) caught global attention, as Libya slipped back to an era of explicit political divisions. Read More
Federica Saini Fasanotti
“The history of Libyan politics today is one of a population desperate to rid itself of a parasitic nouveau elite class before they hollow out the country through corruption and reshape Libyan society in their own grotesquely venal image”. Read More