Vol 62 No 3 | LIBYA Jagged path to elections 4th February 2021 Libya now has a shortlist of 21 candidates for the post of prime minister and 24 for the three vacancies on the Presidency Council (one president and two...
Vol 52 No 22 | LIBYASOUTH AFRICA Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya 4th November 2011 Ex-soldiers and police officers recruited in Cape Town helped some of Gadaffi’s family escape to Algeria but another team was less successful Two teams of South African mercenaries are believed to have helped members of the Gadaffi family to escape from Libya and may have tried to save the late...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAAFRICAMIGRATION Libya and its African brothers 3rd April 2009 The row in Africa over migration weakens progress towards the African Union's aims of the free movement of people, goods and services across the continent, says Albert Ouédraogo,...
Vol 55 No 11 | LIBYA Enter the General 22nd May 2014 Retired General Khalifa Haftar has taken on the Islamist militias that dominate the east and intends to capture Parliament and seize power A group of senior officers led by General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, Chief of Staff under the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, is drawing militias to its banner from...
Vol 65 No 1 | CLIMATE CHANGESPECIAL REPORT What did the UN COP28 Climate summit deliver for Africa? 29th December 2023 The final communiqué at the end of the UN COP28 summit in Dubai on 13 December produced what its authors hailed as a breakthrough – it approved a roadmap for 'transitioning away from fossil fuels' | By Tim Concannon It was a first for a UN Climate Conference. But it stopped short of what many delegates had called for – 'a phase-out' of the use of coal,... READ FOR FREE