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Security Council Committee Concerning Libya amends its travel ban and ...

March 22, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, March 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – On 20 March 2013, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated the entry specifi...

Libya after Ghadaffi – For better or for worse?

October 24, 2012 1 comment

Despite western euphoria that greeted the NATO-led UN mandate of the “Responsibility to protect” (R2P) as “mission accomplished” following the death of Moamar Ghaddafi a year ago, Libya is still at w...

Libya’s Liberal Coalition beats Islamist parties in polls

July 20, 2012 1 comment

According to reports revealed on Tuesday, Libya’s liberal coalition beat the Islamist parties in a rather hotly contested first poll since the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. But it remains uncertain as t...

Libyan government eager to form security forces to ensure full control...

March 22, 2012 1 comment

One year after the uprising which led to the ousting of Mouamar Al Gaddafi’s regime, the Libyan interim government has not yet managed to offer an outer shell of coherent State and to put into effect...

The destruction of Libya’s infrastructure as University of Bani ...

November 1, 2011 3 comments

BANI WALID, Libya (IPS) – Suleyman and Rasool have come to the University of Bani Walid, in western Libya. If they are lucky they might find some chemistry notes and, perhaps, a computer that works. ...

Was the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi murdered in cold bold by ...

October 21, 2011 1 comment

At the  height of the rebellion in Libya, reports that were filtering out of Tripoli suggested that African migrant workers in the country were systematically targeted by rebels and some were impriso...

Muammar Gaddafi is reportedly dead but there are still conflicting rep...

October 20, 2011 1 comment

DOHA, (IPS) – Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader’s hometown and final stronghold. ”...

The African Union would not recognise the rebel National Transitional ...

August 26, 2011 no comments

South African President Jacob Zuma has said that the African Union (AU) would not yet recognise the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the sole representative of the Libyan people until hos...

NATO split revealed as Italy calls for halt to military action in Liby...

June 23, 2011 2 comments

According to the Reuters news agency, a split has opened within the NATO-led air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with France and Britain rejecting an Italian call for a halt to milita...

Gaddafi’s intelligence headquarters targeted by NATO air raids

June 7, 2011 no comments

The military intelligence headquarters of Muammar Gaddafi’s battered regime was targeted by NATO air raids ahead of a visit to Libya by an envoy from Russia which has raised concerns about the ...

Gaddafi in trouble as Britain prepares to use bunker-busting bombs in ...

May 29, 2011 no comments

The British government is to add “bunker-busting” bombs to the arsenal its warplanes are using over Libya, a weapon it said on Sunday would send a loud message to Muammar Gaddafi that it ...

No let up for Gaddafi as Obama and Cameron give the Libyan leader a st...

May 25, 2011 no comments

U.S. President, Barack Obama, warned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi  there would be ‘no let up’ in pressure on him to go, following a second successive night of heavy NATO bombing in Tripo...

NATO goes beyond its mandate and assassinates Gaddafi’s son and ...

May 1, 2011 3 comments

President Muammar Gaddafi has survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday. Libyan offi...

Attempt on Gaddafi’s life as NATO flattens the Libyan leaderR...

April 25, 2011 2 comments

A building inside Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound was flattened down to rubble by NATO forces in what a press official from Gaddafi’s government said was an attempt on the Liby...

Conflict of interests as Britain wants to send military advisers to Li...

April 20, 2011 no comments

Rebel officials in Misrata are pleading for Britain and France to send troops to help fight Moamer Kadhafi’s forces, while a son of the Libyan leader said he was “very optimistic” h...

NATO wants to oust Kadhafi – but what does the U.N. resolution s...

April 14, 2011 1 comment

BERLIN, April 14, 2011 (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that NATO was united in seeking an end to Moamer Kadhafi’s rule in Libya as the Western alliance faced d...