Tag Archives: Libya

Psychosocial course aims to heal scars caused by Libyan conflict

May 17, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –IOM, in partnership with Tripoli University, has completed a six-month course for 31 Libyan health, educational and social ...

Libyan judiciary prepares to combat human trafficking

April 6, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 5, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – IOM, in partnership with the Libyan Ministry of Justice and the Institute of High Court Judges, has completed a series co...

Chadian migrants expelled from Libya “Growing Concern,” says IOM

March 22, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 22, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – IOM is concerned about the wellbeing of undocumented Chadian migrants whom the Libyan authorities are returning to Chad ...

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: Thousands need help following tribal clashes in Nafusa mountain...

March 7, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Over the past three days, thousands of people have been displaced by tribal clashes in Libya’s Nafusa mountains. In coope...

EU prepares support to border management in Libya

March 6, 2013 no comments

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, March 6, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The Council today approved the crisis management concept for a possible new civilian Common Security and Defence Policy...

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...

Syria crisis: Kofi Annan proposes unity government – live update...

June 28, 2012 no comments

• Blasts hit Palace of Justice in Damascus
• Russia keeps diplomats guessing on its backing for Assad
• Moscow ready to deliver repaired helicopter gunships

Tunisia president and parliament at odds over Gaddafi PM’s extra...

June 25, 2012 no comments

Tunisia's parliament rejects president's claim that extraditing Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi without his permission was illegal

Libyan military prosecutor shot dead in Benghazi

June 22, 2012 2 comments

Juma Obaidi al-Jazawi, accused of involvement in death of rebel commander last year, is killed as he leaves mosque

Deserting refugees in the isolated towns of the Sahara

May 14, 2012 no comments

KUFRA, Libya – Rebecca Murray - (IPS) – As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant “Libya free...

Outbreak of violence as peace is lost in the Libyan desert

April 30, 2012 no comments

KUFRA, Libya, Rebecca Murray (IPS) – The recent outbreak of violence between the largely segregated Zwai and Tabu tribes in Libya’s remote, Saharan town of Kufra shattered the uneasy calm that held s...

Libya – The legacy of Muammar Ghadafi

April 16, 2012 1 comment

States whose legitimacy is based on the charisma of an individual’, they say, ‘are bound to disintegrate when they go’. And so it is with Libya where the legacy of 42 years of one-man rule deprived t...

Rebels march into new Libya with a hangover as transitional government...

April 10, 2012 no comments

ZAWIYAH, Libya, Rebecca Murray (IPS) – A few hundred police cadets in ad hoc camouflage uniforms march up and down the grounds at a training centre in the coastal town Zawiyah. “You are the peo...

The Arab spring brings some sour fruits with economic challenges from ...

March 27, 2012 no comments

CAIRO, Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau (IPS) – Recent shifts in the Middle East and North Africa have presented several economic challenges such as high unemployment, an exodus of migrants from Libya and...