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Abdelbaset al - Meghrahi dies

Abdelbaset al - Meghrahi dies
05/21/2012 | News
Abdelbaset al -Megrahi dies on Sunday. He was a Libyan secret service agent and the sole person convicted of the Pan Am Boeing 747 flight 103 bombing which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people in 1988. Meghrai was convicted in 2001 in a court in the Netherlands by...

In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captives -NYT

In Libya, the Captors Have Become the Captives -NYT
05/17/2012 | Africa
In an article in the New York Times Frank D.Worth examines the scourge of torture in Libya's illegal militia prisons and its after affects as those who inflicted the torture under the Gaddafi regime themselves have to submit to the daily beatings from those who were once their victims. Frank...

Building Libya's New Media "From a Void"

Building Libya's New Media "From a Void"
05/15/2012 | Debates and Analysis
Going from being a country with a highly controlled press to one that has free, independent and functioning media in roughly a year is a tall order. This is true even for Libyans, who, last year, did what seemed impossible, and freed their nation from Muammar Gaddafi's iron grip. But Gaddafi's...

Peace Lost in the Libyan Desert

Peace Lost in the Libyan Desert
04/28/2012 | Debates and Analysis
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 since last February’s clashes, resulting in more than 100 deaths. The clashes illustrate the challenges in building a new state. In the...

The MNLA and Ansar Dine take Kidal

The MNLA and Ansar Dine take Kidal
03/30/2012 | Sahel
Tuareg forces have captured the strategic town of Kidal a week after the Mali military coup a rebel spokesman told the BBC. All Malian army positions have been abandoned. The Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo asked for foreign help to combat the MNLA and its allies but this seems unlikely to be...

Mali coup complicates security in the Sahel

Mali coup complicates security in the Sahel
03/24/2012 | Sahel
The coup in Mali has brought a chaotic regional situation into focus.Gaddafi's financial support for regional conflicts and regimes earned him many friends in Africa like the Tuareg who fought for him. Gaddafi planned to continue his fight and after his death  elements of his plans for a...

Turkey and North Africa

Turkey and North Africa
03/20/2012 | Maghreb
Turkey one of the world's newly industrialized countries. It is among the world's leading producers of agricultural products; textiles; motor vehicles, ships and other transportation equipment; construction materials; consumer electronics and home appliances. In recent years, Turkey had a rapidly...

Egypt Set to Extradite Gaddafi Supporters

Egypt Set to Extradite Gaddafi Supporters
03/16/2012 | Africa
Egypt is planning to hand over to Libya government loyalists who fled to Egypt after rebels toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Egyptian media reported on Friday according to RIA Novosti and AP. According to the media reports, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr has called for an urgent...

Libya: what now?

Libya: what now?
03/07/2012 | In the Media
As Libya emerges from 42 years of state domination under former leader Muammar Gaddafi and an eight-month civil war, the country’s banking sector faces opportunities and challenges in almost equal measure. Like all sectors, Libya’s banking market was severely disrupted by the eight-month civil war...

East Libya leaders declare autonomy

East Libya leaders declare autonomy
03/06/2012 | Maghreb
Tribal and political leaders declared Libya’s oil-rich eastern region of Cyrenaica as autonomous on Tuesday, raising fears the country may break up in the wake of Moammer Gaddafi’s downfall. Tribal and political leaders declared Libya’s oil-rich eastern region of Cyrenaica as autonomous on Tuesday,...

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