Vol 61 No 6 | LIBYA In search of an envoy 19th March 2020 The signs point to an African being appointed UN special envoy to Libya after the surprise resignation of Lebanese Ghassan Salamé on 2 March. On 10 March, the head of the Tr...
Vol 61 No 3 | LIBYAEUROPEAN UNION A game of many nations 6th February 2020 Turkey's agreement to support the UN-recognised government has upsets the geopolitics of the eastern Mediterranean The political backing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for the UN-recognised regime in Tripoli is well-known, but less so are the subsidiary clauses in the pact which ma...
Vol 61 No 2 | LIBYA Life as a client state looms 23rd January 2020 As the US leaves the scene, Russia and Turkey may be about to carve up the country between them Whether General Khalifa Haftar will this year enter Tripoli in triumph – which he continually predicted for most of last year – is in doubt now that Libya's future is i...
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 of ...
Vol 60 No 24 | LIBYA Trump talks peace 5th December 2019 The US is trying to force a ceasefire in order to stem Russia’s growing influence as Haftar claims to be poised to take Tripoli The attempt by eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army to seize Tripoli is now into its ninth month but is still unaccomplished. In October, however, afte...
Vol 60 No 20 | LIBYA Washington’s man wades in 11th October 2019 The military stalemate has persuaded US officials to join pressure for negotiations to reunify the country There is a new drive in Washington's Libya policy. As the military stalemate continues, the new United States ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, who took up the post on 14 Augus...
Vol 60 No 19 | LIBYA Emirati casualties 27th September 2019 The United Arab Emirates Armed Forces' announcement that six of its soldiers died in action in Libya is its first admission that it is fighting on the ground there. Up to now it ha...
Vol 60 No 16 | LIBYA Proxies battle over Tripoli 9th August 2019 There's a stalemate on the ground while each side's foreign supporters use high-tech weaponry to try to change the strategic balance As the campaign of Benghazi-based strongman Khalifa Haftar to take Tripoli slows down, foreign powers are putting more and more resources into the fight, including armed drones and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 14 | LIBYA Air strikes risk escalation 5th July 2019 Bombings in support of Haftar's army not only killed detained African would-be migrants but increased the prospects of ever-greater foreign involvement When Libya's eastern military strongman, General Khalifa Haftar, launched his offensive to capture Tripoli on 4 April, he hoped for a blitzkrieg. What he got was a battle of attrit...
Vol 60 No 8 | LIBYA Haftar stakes it all 19th April 2019 LNA forces have attacked Tripoli, sounding the death knell to planned peace talks and opening what could be a bitter and bloody battle Four years of efforts by the UN to end the crisis in Libya have been rendered almost futile by eastern-based strongman, General Khalifa Haftar. On 4 April, two months after his for...
