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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...

NATO's Twin Crises

NATO's Twin Crises
05/17/2012 | Debates and Analysis
It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The ongoing economic crisis is putting pressure on military budgets on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the Libya conflict revealed the stark limitations of the United States' military partners in Europe, virtually all...

Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism

Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism
05/17/2012 | Debates and Analysis
The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to the resurgence of terrorism in their societies. This cynical calculus allowed Arab autocrats to claim...

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...

Jobs for the boys

Jobs for the boys
05/14/2012 | Africa
The despair over unemployment that sparked the Arab Spring continues to dog graduates in the region. David Matthews reports from a British Council conference in Morocco that aimed to find solutions After police stopped Mohammed Bouazizi from selling fruit and vegetables because he lacked the...

NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya

NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya
05/14/2012 | News
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch (HRW)said in a report released today. t The 76-page report, “Unacknowledged...

Deserting Refugees in the Sahara

Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
05/13/2012 | Debates and Analysis
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, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers. Most of the prisoners in the small, squalid compound called the Freedom Detention Centre -...

Libyan deadline for Registration of Voters and Candidates Extended

Libyan deadline for Registration of Voters and Candidates Extended
05/13/2012 | Sahel
The head of the High National Election Commission, HNEC, Nuri El Abbar, confirmed on Libya's Al-Ahrar TV, that the election commission has decided to extend the deadline for the registration of candidates to 15 May. He also confirmed that the June 19 targeted for election day stands. The HNEC head...

Drowned Libya oil chief feared going home

Drowned Libya oil chief feared going home
05/13/2012 | News
Spat at in public by a fellow Libyan who called him a thief, watching his back on long walks through Vienna, eating poorly; Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive oil supremo was a troubled man in the months before he was found drowned in the Danube two weeks ago. Just whom, or what, Shokri Ghanem feared may...

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