June 17

• Libya: Libya's "Growing" Drugs/HIV Problem

  Doctors in Libya say they are seeing a "growing" number of patients with drug problems and a corresponding risk of HIV infection, in a post-Gaddafi era marked by limited law... Read more »

May 16

• North Africa: Libyans in North Africa Scared to Return Home

  Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been... Read more »

April 02

• Libya: Thousands of Families Displaced in Nafusa Mountains

  Relations between ethnic groups in Libya's northwestern Nafusa Mountains remain tense several weeks after renewed clashes in the town of Mizdah. Read more »

March 15

• Libya: Security of Christian Communities 'Precarious' - Archbishop

  Various Christian communities in Libya, as well as some Muslim groups, have been feeling increasingly under pressure from hardline Islamist groups since the overthrow of Muammar... Read more »

March 08

• Libya: Chadian Migrants Rue Libyan Detention, Ill-Treatment, Deportation

  In the violence immediately before and after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011, thousands of sub-Saharan migrants were forced to flee. Since then, however,... Read more »

February 28

• Libya: Towards Security and Good Governance in Libya

  In Libya you see constant reminders of the Arab Spring and the violent end to Col Gaddafi's 42-year rule - from the bullet holes at the airport, posters of revolutionary martyrs,... Read more »

February 19

• Libya: Displaced Tawergha Threaten Unilateral Return

  Two years on from the start of the Libyan revolution, one major humanitarian issue awaits resolution: the internal displacement of around 60,000 Libyans accused of close ties to... Read more »

January 16

• Libya: Civil War Refugees in Limbo Two Years Later

  Two years after fleeing the civil war in Libya, hundreds of sub-Saharan African and Arab refugees, most of them ex-migrant workers in Libya, are still holed up in a camp on the... Read more »

July 17, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 14, 2012

• 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 03, 2012

• 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 01, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 04, 2012

• 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 13, 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 05, 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 29, 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 01, 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 »