May 14

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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



March 26

  • 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



February 17



February 5

  • 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



December 13, 2011

  • 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

  • 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



November 16, 2011



November 6, 2011

  • 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



November 1, 2011

  • 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

  • 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



October 13, 2011



September 1, 2011



August 28, 2011

  • 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



August 24, 2011

  • 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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