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Libya’s Oil Ambitions Undermined by Governance Gridlock
Libya’s energy sector is experiencing renewed interest, with billions in foreign investment and key infrastructure...
Libya: Eni Leads Charge in Libya’s Energy Revival
The energy sector appears to be the only bright spot in the Libyan economy. The sector is experiencing significant...
Libya: Foreign reps flock to Tripoli as country reopens
The prime ministers of Italy and Greece on Tuesday joined a growing number of foreign leaders visiting Libya as it...
Covid-19: Libya gets first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
Libya's interim prime minister on Sunday announced the arrival of the first batch of vaccines against Covid-19, as the...
Libyans working on reconciliation with release of enemy fighters
Authorities in western Libya released 120 fighters from a rival eastern force on Wednesday, the latest move towards...
Libya intercepts large number of would-be migrants
Libya's coastguard intercepted almost 1,000 Europe-bound migrants off its western coast in two days, the International...
Libyan authorities on the hunt for killers of Al Warfalli, arrest suspect
Libyan authorities Saturday announced increased security measures in second city Benghazi and the arrest of two...
Libya: First group of mercenaries linked to Turkey leaving Libya
Pro-Ankara Syrian militia fighters deployed in Libya have started to withdraw, a French diplomatic source said on...
Libya’s media professionals face censorship, intimidation and threats
By Hamza Mekouar - A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the end of his regime's stranglehold...
Libya: Women making modest progress in politics but glass ceiling still strong
By Hamza Mekouar and Jihad Dorgham: Libya's new government includes five women, with two in key portfolios -- a first...
Libya: Authorities find bodies of people in Benghazi likely killed execution style
The bodies of 11 people bearing gunshot wounds were discovered on Thursday in eastern Libya's Benghazi, said a...
Libya: More evidence that new PM Dbeibah may have been elected in exchange for large cash bribes
At least three participants in UN-led Libya peace talks held in Tunisia in November were offered bribes to vote for a...
Libya headed toward normalcy as Tunisian president visits Tripoli after a nine-year break
Tunisia's President Kais Saied is to travel to Libya Wednesday for the first visit by a head of state between the...
Libya: Transition continues with new government taking over western Libya’s structures
Libya's Fayez al-Sarraj, outgoing head of the western-based Government of National Accord, formally handed over power...
Libya has a unity government, looks for return to stability
By Hamza Mekouar - Libya's parliament on Wednesday approved a unity government to lead the war-ravaged North African...
Libya: Finally Afriqiyah Airways resumes Benghazi-Misrata service after a seven-year state of war
Flights between the eastern Libya city of Benghazi and the western city of Misrata were restored Tuesday after a near...
Libya: Foreign meddlers continue to maintain thousands of mercenaries in Libya
Libya's prime minister-designate demanded the departure Tuesday of an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters as he sought...
More migrants rescued off the coast of Libya
German charity Sea-Watch said Saturday it had saved nearly 150 migrants off the Libyan coast in two operations. Its...
Libya PM Dbeibah pledges unity, faces major challenges in forming government
By Rim Taher - Libya's prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Thursday said he had submitted a "vision" for...
Libya: Interior minister Fathi Bashagha escapes assassination attempt
The powerful interior minister of Libya's unity government survived an assassination attempt Sunday, an aide said,...
Libya: Mortar attack on Sebha kills child
The United Nations on Wednesday condemned a suspected "targeted mortar attack" in southern Libya that it said killed a...
Libya: UN grapples with stubborn presence of mercenaries in Libya
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for all foreign troops and mercenaries to leave war-torn...
Libya: As focus shifts away from him, warlord Haftar claims his support to new leadership
Libya's eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar offered his backing Thursday for a peace process that seeks to end a decade...
Libya: Large numbers of migrants continue to brave the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe
Libya has rescued more than 1,500 would-be migrants off its west coast in the past week, a non-governmental...
Libya: Despite presence of Russian mercenaries, Moscow says ready to work with new Libyan leadership
Moscow is prepared for "constructive" work with Libya's newly selected interim leaders, the Russian foreign ministry...
Libya: The new leaders have less than one year to normalize Libya
Who is Libya’s new Interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah? Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya's newly elected interim...
Libyan delegates pick Abdulhamid Mohammed Dbeibah as transitional prime minister
By Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli - Libyan delegates at UN-facilitated talks outside Geneva on Friday made...
The Amazigh people of Libya struggling for recognition
Amid increasing violence between two rival factions, the country’s biggest indigenous people get set for an uncertain...
Libya: UN Security Council signals willingness to contain Libyan crisis
The UN Security Council on Thursday instructed Secretary General Antonio Guterres to deploy ceasefire monitors to...
Libya: Biden administration more assertive on the Libyan crisis
The United States on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya, after a...
Libya: Rescue operations fetch 374 vulnerable migrants off the coast of Libya in two days
More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast by the Ocean Viking humanitarian vessel in just two...
Libya: Russian and other foreign mercenaries still active in Libya
Foreign forces ignored a deadline to pull out of Libya as scheduled Saturday under a UN-backed ceasefire deal,...
Libyans want constitutional referendum before planned elections
Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks in Egypt agreed Wednesday to hold a constitutional referendum before planned...
Libya: Officers killed in navy school fire near Tripoli
A fire at a Libyan naval academy near the capital Tripoli killed two senior officers and a civilian, the health...
Libya: Growing pressure on Tripoli-based government over mass graves
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya's internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed...
Tunisia wants UN monitors in Libya
Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international...
Libya: More evidence of Moscow’s meddling in Libya affairs: Russians operatives freed in Libya
Three Russians and one Ukrainian have been released from captivity in Libya, the head of a controversial Moscow-based...
Libya: The ordeal of Libya’s civil war amputees
For Radwan Jibril, wounded in a bastion of Libya's 2011 revolution, losing his leg became "inevitable" and he had a...
Libya: Despite series of talks to bring peace in Libya, warlord Haftar threatens more violence
Turkey tells Haftar to back off Turkey's defence minister said that any attack by eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa...
Despite their divisions, Libyans hope for a return to stability
The Tawergha People: By AlJazeera When Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled, people took revenge on those they...
Divided Maghreb countries celebrate one common thing: the Couscous
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...