Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
Website: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/
May 14
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Libya: Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
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... Read more »
April 29
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Libya: Peace Lost in the Desert
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... Read more »
April 17
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Libya: Citizens Now Battle Over Housing
The future is uncertain for the gregarious Alhasairi family, living in a downtown apartment block battle-scarred from last year's overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. Like countless of... Read more »
April 10
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Libya: Nation Faces a Health Check
At a crowded corner of the Tripoli Medical Centre, people gather every morning to submit paperwork for medical treatment abroad, or worriedly scan new lists of approved names... Read more »
April 1
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Libya: Rebels March Into New Libya With a Hangover [analysis]
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 people protecting the... Read more »
March 26
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North Africa: Arab Spring Brings Some Sour Fruits
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 a reduction of tourism... Read more »
March 2
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Libya: Hard to Stay in Country, Difficult to Return
At the battered terminal of Tripoli's tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya's Buraq airlines. This journey to Lagos is... Read more »
February 17
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Libya: Exiles Return Contentiously
With the June deadline for congressional elections approaching, Libyans previously in exile are returning home to take part in the construction of a new political landscape.... Read more »
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Libya: An Old Gaddafi Town Is Not Celebrating
On the first anniversary of Libya's revolution, Sirte brigade members lounge on leather couches in the lobby of the upscale Mahiri Hotel, supervising its reconstruction. Read more »
February 5
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Libya: New Nation Off to a Shaky Start
It's been almost a year since Benghazi launched its uprising against former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and three months since he was killed, but there is a growing sense of... Read more »
January 27
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North Africa: Journalists Reporting Uprisings Face New Dangers
Attempts by regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to suppress the flow of information during the region's pro-democracy uprisings has led a higher number of... Read more »
December 13, 2011
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Libya: Old Ways Under a New Flag [analysis]
"They would call you a Gaddafist if you drove one of those 4 X 4 cars," says Bashar, emerging from one of those traffic jams in Tripoli. "Today almost every rebel commander has... Read more »
November 25, 2011
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Libya: The Making of a Ghost Town
Omar Embarka crumbles when she sees the pictures of the Libyan city where she was born and lived until two months ago. "We will be back in Tawargha one day," the 25-year-old... Read more »
November 18, 2011
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Libya: Nato Intervention Was 'Recolonisation' [interview]
Brazilian journalist and writer Mário Augusto Jakobskind was thwarted in his attempt to visit Libya during the civil war there, but in spite of this he produced a lucid... Read more »
November 16, 2011
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Libya: Headed for Some Sort of Sharia
The announced introduction of Islamic law in post-Gaddafi Libya has drawn strong opposition from women, the non-religious and the Amazigh minority. Read more »
November 6, 2011
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Libya: Cornered in Free Country
"We've walked all the way here to tell everybody that we are being treated like dogs," said 23-year old Hamuda Bubakar, among a couple of hundred black refugees protesting at... Read more »
November 2, 2011
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Libya: Libya - Visitors Could Be Saviours
"A crossroads of history, continents and ancient empires; a place where history comes alive through the extraordinary monuments on its shores", reads a well- known tourist... Read more »
November 1, 2011
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Libya: Nation's 'Other' Victims
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.... Read more »
October 20, 2011
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Libya: Gaddafi Killed As Sirte Falls
Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold. Read more »
October 14, 2011
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Libya: Governing Council Accused of Detainee Abuse
Libya's governing National Transitional Council (NTC) is holding about 2,500 detainees in the capital Tripoli alone, many of whom have been beaten and subjected to other... Read more »
October 13, 2011
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Libya: Imperative Libyans Decide Their Own Future
The African Union must take the lead in helping Libya achieve peace by ensuring the formation of a unity government between pro-Muammar Gaddafi forces and the National Transitional... Read more »
September 1, 2011
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Libya: Eid Comes With Political Celebration
"Gaddafi renamed this one as the 'Green Square' but we have brought back its ancient name, 'Martyrs square'," Asma Mohamed, Tripoli resident tells IPS. Read more »
August 28, 2011
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Libya: When Caught in the Crossfire
Thousands have been caught in the Libyan fighting - people neither with Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces, or with the rebels. Ayman Agamy Abdelgawad, an Egyptian released from... Read more »
August 25, 2011
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Libya: Evidence of 'Mass Execution' in Tripoli
Al Jazeera has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya. Read more »
August 24, 2011
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Libya: Libyans Find Historic Hope
"I'm 60 years old and I never thought I'd see this moment with my own eyes," Najib Taghuz tells IPS from the Tunisian-Libyan border. The engineer from the recently liberated town... Read more »
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