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Libya
Population: 6.6 mn.
GDP: 71.3 bn.
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The National Transitional Council will struggle to meet the June 2012 deadline to hold elections for a 200-member constituent assembly. Prime Minister Abdurrahim el Keib's government urgently needs to appoint a new army chief as it tries to mould more than 200 militias into a single national force.


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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Waiting for government

Credible institutions remain a distant prospect as the NTC, militias and others compete for authority

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

From Gadaffi to Qatar

The lake in Benghazi city centre, beside which its two main hotels stand, epitomises Moammar el Gadaffi’s neglect of the east. Officially known as the ‘23 July lake’, foreigners and some locals more commonly refer to it as ‘Shit Lake’ because it contains ...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

The struggle for the centre

The new government will have to balance regional and ideological interests and try to mop up a flood of weapons

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya

Ex-soldiers and police officers recruited in Cape Town helped some of Gadaffi’s family escape to Algeria but another team was less successful

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Recognised but risky

Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil had a hero’s welcome at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 20 September but Africa was deeply divided over the new regime. United States President Barack Obama paid fulsome tributes ...

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

The Gadaffi clan scatters

After the collapse of the Colonel’s regime, its successors intensify the hunt for its chieftains and its assets

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

You can take the Africa out of Libya...

Speculation is rife about what Libya’s new rulers will do with Gadaffi’s immense investment portfolio in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Lobbying on

Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the offices in Libya of Moammar el Gadaffi’s fallen Prime Minister, El Baghdad...

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Gadaffi falls, revolution rises

Declaring victory after six months of war, the new regime in Tripoli has rejuvenated the Arab Spring and may promote political change further south

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Running on empty

The offensives by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the brave but shambolic Transitional National Council fighters show no sign of overwhelming Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s forces. Fuel starvation is the best prospect for removing the regime. A s...

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