July 17

• Libya: What the Analysts Are Saying Post Elections

  Delayed by a month, Libya's first free elections to the transitional 200 member General National Congress (GNC) went off relatively smoothly, with only isolated cases of violence... Read more »

July 11

• Egypt: Misery for Stranded Refugees

  Salloum camp in western Egypt about 5km from the Libyan border is home to about 2,000 refugees, failed asylum seekers and third country nationals who fled Libya in 2011 and cannot... Read more »

May 24

• Libya: Minority Rights At a Crossroads

  Since Muammar Gaddafi's fall seven months ago, Libya's non-Arab minorities, including an estimated 250,000 Tuaregs, have begun more vehemently to insist on their rights. Read more »

May 15

• Libya: Uneasy Calm After Clashes in South-Western City

  A tenuous peace has taken hold in Libya's southwestern city of Sebha more than a month after tribal clashes killed at least 70 people, with tensions still high between communities... Read more »

May 3

• Libya: Detained Migrants Face Harsh Conditions

  In one of the many rooms where detainees are held at Ganfouda detention centre in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, Suleiman Mansour*, a young Somali from Mogadishu, spends... Read more »

May 1

• Libya: Thousands Still Afraid to Return Home

  Six months after an uprising brought down Muammar Gaddafi's government, thousands of displaced Libyans are still living in abandoned construction sites, empty student dormitories... Read more »

March 22

• Mali: Rebellion Claims a President

  Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré, overthrown this morning by mutinous soldiers, said recently that tackling recalcitrant Tuareg rebels in the north is going to... Read more »

February 29

• Libya: New Govt Fails to Provide Coherent Lead, Say Analysts [analysis]

  One year after a popular uprising toppled its former dictator, Libya's new transitional government has failed to provide coherent state leadership and control, analysts say. Read more »

January 31

• Libya: The Middle East's 'Invisible Refugees'

  Among the migrants who found themselves caught up in Libya during last year's war was a group of people whom one University of Oxford researcher calls "invisible": refugees who... Read more »

January 5

• North Africa: The Year That Was

  When hundreds of thousands of people across the Arab world poured into the streets in 2011 to demand freedom from dictatorship, they set in motion a series of events which not only... Read more »

December 29, 2011

• Libya: Country's Long Road to Disarmament [analysis]

  Mistrust of Libya's interim administration is likely to deter tens of thousands of revolutionary fighters from complying with a massive new demobilization plan, according to... Read more »

December 14, 2011

• Libya: Rocky Road Ahead for Tawergha Minority

  A major challenge facing Libya as it emerges from a nine-month civil war will be reconciling and integrating thousands of Tawergha accused of killing and raping residents of... Read more »

December 5, 2011

• Libya: The Funding Dilemma

  Residual humanitarian needs in Libya have not been fully funded because of confusion over whether unfrozen Libyan assets are available, donors, aid workers and government officials... Read more »

November 30, 2011

• Libya: Uncertain Future for Returnees in Gaddafi's Hometown

  Sirte, the final battleground between rebels and fighters loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, is a broken city. Read more »

September 20, 2011

• Niger: Lean Season Awaits Migrants Escaping Libya

  While the world's politicians conjure up fears of a "tsunami of migrants" flooding Europe, in reality it is Libya's economically vulnerable and chronically food-insecure neighbours... Read more »

• Libya: Sub-Saharan Migrants Keep Their Heads Down

  In an abandoned port on the outskirts of Tripoli, a young woman timidly peeks out from behind the blanket that forms a wall in her improvised home. She is one of hundreds of... Read more »

September 1, 2011

• Libya: Overstretched Health Service Needs Sustained Support

  Recent fighting in Libya, especially in the capital Tripoli, has taken a toll on medical services with overstretched personnel working under very difficult conditions, and... Read more »

August 25, 2011

• Libya: A Protection Challenge for the Opposition

  The entry by Libyan opposition fighters into Tripoli clearly marks a turning point for the Libyan opposition after six months of fighting against Col Muammar Gaddafi's government. Read more »

August 18, 2011

• Libya: Volunteers Helping Benghazi's Vulnerable to Cope

  As conflicting reports come in of rebel advances on the Libyan capital Tripoli, civil society organizations and international NGOs in the rebel capital, Benghazi, are trying to... Read more »

August 17, 2011

• Libya: Civil Society Flourishes in Crisis

  Sidelined under Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan civil society organizations are beginning to assume an important role in helping the most vulnerable in "liberated" areas. Read more »

August 3, 2011

• Chad: Stranded Migrants Airlifted From Libya

  Hundreds of stranded Chadian migrants have been airlifted home from southern Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in Geneva on 2 August. Read more »

July 13, 2011

• Libya: From Libya to Lampedusa

  Protests in Libya against the rule of Col Muammar Gaddafi, and subsequent fighting, have led thousands of third-country nationals to flee the country by road, air or sea. Read more »

June 30, 2011

• Chad: Fallout of Libyan Crisis Forces Migrants Home

  Chadian families are facing worsening food insecurity, becoming more indebted, and selling off personal possessions as they try to cope with the loss of remittances from relatives... Read more »

June 14, 2011

• Libya: Timeline of Key Events Since 4 April

  The crisis in Libya has forced over 636,000 people to leave the country, including 280,741 third-country nationals. Read more »

May 26, 2011

• Tunisia: Growing Frustration in Choucha Transit Camp

  Tensions have escalated among third country nationals who fled violence in Libya and have been living in Choucha transit camp in Tunisia, and the situation could get worse, an aid... Read more »