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	Libya
Population:	6.91m
GDP:	$48.22bn
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Vol 67 No 17 |

LIBYA
CHINA

Beijing finds partners on both sides of the Tripoli-Benghazi divide

20th August 2026

Chinese companies are building ties with the rival regimes, using banking, shipping and industries to expand operations

Without waiting for the rival leaders in Tripoli and Benghazi to settle their political feuds, Chinese companies are building up a corporate bulwark in Libya. In the west,...

Vol 67 No 17 |

LIBYA
UNITED STATES

Chinese capital tests the limits of Washington’s diplomatic offer

20th August 2026

As Beijing courts both Tripoli and Benghazi, Massad Boulos’s power-sharing gambit risks entrenching the warlords it hoped to tame

Even before Beijing’s latest commercial deals for the rival camps in Libya, United States senior envoy Massad Boulos was struggling to win credibility for his scheme to reunify...

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Vol 67 No 17 |

LIBYA
UNITED STATES

Haftar family cements grip on Libya's transition

24th August 2026

The rescue of an American hostage has bolstered the Haftars' standing in Washington's unity plan, days after Libya's rival factions signed a roadmap to elections

Libya's power-sharing arithmetic shifted further in the Haftar family's favour this month after Saddam Haftar, son of the eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, was publicly credited by freed American...

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Vol 67 No 16 |

Ceuta crisis exposes fault lines in EU migration strategy

3rd August 2026

Emergency talks in Brussels this week could see Spain becoming the scapegoat for a border breach with continental implications

Morocco deployed armed forces with water cannon over the weekend, while the Spanish government reinforced the border fence at its exclave of Ceuta, as both sides face the...

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Vol 67 No 14 |

LIBYA
SUDAN
UNITED STATES

The Haftar-Hemeti warlord connection catches up with Washington

8th July 2026

As US envoy Boulos talks up a Libyan unity plan, investigators have traced arms supplies linking Haftar’s fiefdom with the RSF militia

A compelling new investigation into how fighters loyal to eastern-based warlord Khalifa Haftar have trained fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is complicating a new US push...

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Vol 67 No 13 |

LIBYA

Factions set February election as US-brokered plan tests Haftar

22nd June 2026

A unified budget and an electoral timetable show progress toward but the Libyan National Army chief's silence raises critical questions

The rival administrations in Tripoli and Benghazi are mulling a roadmap for presidential and parliamentary elections within eight months. Benghazi-based House of Representatives speaker Aguila Saleh, along with...

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Vol 67 No 9 |

A power-sharing deal – based on oil, drones and secret cash

24th April 2026

Washington envoy Boulos has brokered a deal between Tripoli and Benghazi but fraud claims against the Haftar family could scupper it

Libya is edging towards a power-sharing agreement after the rival parliaments in Tripoli and Benghazi agreed on 11 April to approve a unified budget, as the first since...

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