- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
The government is drifting and so is business, which is deterring investment
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
According to a leaked management report from September 2010, some 75% of the Libyan Investment Authority’s assets were in Europe, 14% in North America and the remaining 11% in emerging markets. It is not clear how much was invested in Africa, although the...
- Vol 54 No 1
- 11th January 2013
Libya’s rulers will need cajoling and heavy popular pressure before they do what is needed to set up an authoritative central government
- Vol 53 No 25
- 14th December 2012
As the forces pulling Libya apart strengthen, the government makes strategic blunders and cannot make progress on the constitution
- Vol 53 No 15
- 19th July 2012
Turnout was pretty high, democracy won out and Jibril looks the favourite to form a government
- Vol 53 No 12
- 8th June 2012
Abdel Jalil and his circle of lawyers are reluctant to put their rule to the
test
- Vol 53 No 8
- 13th April 2012
In September 2011, Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s son Es Saadi el Gadaffi arrived in Agadez in the dead of night in a mysterious convoy of vehicles, surrounded by equal mystery over his father’s whereabouts. Libya’s National Transitional Council immediately...
- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
Credible institutions remain a distant prospect as the NTC, militias and others compete for authority
- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
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 new government will have to balance regional and ideological interests and try to mop up a flood of weapons