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As Libya Spirals Toward Chaos, The West Has Financial Levers To Stop The Fighting

By Ethan Chorin and Monem Alyaser

Just as oil and gas wealth were the pillars of Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal rentier state, they are at the heart of the civil conflict raging in Libya – demonstrated recently by an escalating battle over storage depots and lifting ports in the country’s oil-rich East, and rumors of an imminent siege of Libya’s former capital city of Tripoli, which threatens full-blown civil war. Read More

Libya still broken one year on

By Rana Jawad

Libya is a mess. That is not news to most, but Libyan lives were supposed to have improved by now. Saturday marks exactly a year since the signing of the political agreement brokered by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. Read More