Vol 60 No 25 | LIBYA Another day of reckoning 19th December 2019 For a few hours on 12 December and then the following day, there was panic and eager expectation across Libya as the civil war between the internationally-recognised Government...
Vol 59 No 6 | LIBYA Seizing the spoils of war 23rd March 2018 From people-trafficking to oil theft, crime is the mainstay of all the armed groups. International organisations are finally acting Local and international authorities are finally moving against Libya's myriad criminal networks, which finance militias and make personal fortunes. Yet criminality remains pervasive across rival factions. A leaked...
Vol 51 No 24 | LIBYA Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau 3rd December 2010 With its control of state revenue - amounting to over US$400 billion – for the past four decades, the Gadaffi family has become a sprawling, opaque and sometimes...
Vol 63 No 18 | LIBYA Bashagha bloodied in Tripoli battle 2nd September 2022 Forces loyal to Tripoli-based premier Dubaiba have tightened their grip on the capital after another failed effort to capture the city Heavy clashes between rival militias in Tripoli over the weekend of 26/27 August underlined the intractability of the conflict between the two main political protagonists, while claiming at...
Vol 66 No 11 | LIBYA Dubaiba is set to lose his militia gamble 22nd May 2025 The worst fighting in Tripoli for 80 years has sparked protests demanding the prime minister’s exit Anger with the Government of National Unity (GNU) of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba was already on the rise when one of the militia-infested capital’s most powerful chiefs,...
