Vol 54 No 23 | LIBYA Little leadership and less oil 14th November 2013 Ali Zeidan has kept his grip on the premiership but financial pressures, oil blockades and secession threats in the east and south are crowding in The recent failure of the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Justice and Construction Party (JCP) and its allies to remove Prime Minister Ali Zeidan – whether via a vote of the Genera...
Vol 54 No 2 | LIBYA Not so open for business 18th January 2013 The government is drifting and so is business, which is deterring investment Although the Libyan economy is returning to life – with the oil sector in the lead – planning is not. Despite the pressing need to rebuild, little is going on. The International Mo...
Vol 54 No 2 | LIBYA Thawing the assets 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 emer...
Vol 54 No 1 | LIBYA Democratic hustle 10th 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 Mounting problems of security, economics and social development will hustle democratic Libya’s feeble central government and half-formed state institutions into action on several f...
Vol 53 No 25 | LIBYA Unity under strain 14th December 2012 As the forces pulling Libya apart strengthen, the government makes strategic blunders and cannot make progress on the constitution Having departed from the overly ambitious roadmap set out in 2011’s Constitutional Declaration, Libya’s elected representatives cannot decide on a replacement and are mired in inde...
Vol 53 No 15 | LIBYA Electoral victory roll 19th July 2012 Turnout was pretty high, democracy won out and Jibril looks the favourite to form a government Libya’s first fully democratic elections on 7 July won country-wide acceptance, even among groups which had been expected to boycott the vote. There were isolated protests and pock...
Vol 53 No 12 | LIBYA NTC puts poll in doubt 8th June 2012 Abdel Jalil and his circle of lawyers are reluctant to put their rule to the test Preparations for the first national elections in more than four decades, scheduled for 19 June, have placed the post-Gadaffi state under severe pressure. The opaque and unaccountab...
Vol 53 No 8 | LIBYANIGER Gadaffi Junior's gaffe 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 ...
Vol 53 No 3 | LIBYA Waiting for government 3rd February 2012 Credible institutions remain a distant prospect as the NTC, militias and others compete for authority Three months have passed since liberation was officially declared but no functioning government is in sight or even on the horizon. The oil sector is the only operational administr...
Vol 53 No 3 | LIBYA From Gadaffi to Qatar 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 an...
