New parents, Alhadi, a refugee from Sudan, and his Somali wife, Umalkeyr, sit cradling their 20-day-old son in a blanket as they wait to see a doctor. The young couple have come to get medical care for baby Ayman, who has a persistent gastric problem. Libya is still grappling with …
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Tags : Libya, lockdown, UNHCR,
What is the best way to describe the conflict in Libya? Is it a civil war between competing factions? Or has the conflict in fact morphed into a proxy war where there are several competing agendas at work? We all know the sordid history that has taken place in the country since the ouster of Qadaffi…
Read more from the source : Maghreb & Orient Courier
Tags : Libya, proxy war, Gaddafi,
The rapid development of events in Libya have led to the consent of the rebel general Khalifa Haftar[2] to talks with the internationally recognized government in Tripoli. They would seek a peaceful solution to the six-year-long civil war in that widespread rich state based on the Cairo initiative…
Read more from the source : International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies
Tags : Libya, Haftar, Tripoli, Benghazi,
ISTANBUL – In a video posted widely in early June, a man sits on the ground with blood on his face and one leg splayed to the side. “Where am I?” he asks in Libyan Arabic, and the man holding the camera tells him he’s on the Airport Road in Tripoli. His car hit an IED…
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Tags : Libya, explosif devices,
NEW YORK – The U.N. Secretary-General warned Wednesday that “time is not on our side” in Libya, saying the conflict has entered a new phase, with foreign interference reaching “unprecedented levels”. “The United Nations will continue working with the parties to reach a cease-fire and resume …
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Tags : Libya, foreign interference,
Following an intensification of conflict in southern Tripoli, Tarhuna and Sirt in June 2020, nearly 28,000 people were forced to flee their homes. The majority of those displaced moved to the east of the country, particularly to Benghazi (6,550 people) and Ejdabia (6,050 people), while…
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Tags : Libya, situation report, relief,
Few images have captured Libya’s crisis in a time of COVID-19 better than that taken by Egyptian-Canadian photojournalist Amru Salahuddien in late March. It shows a fighter on the Tripoli frontline, his gun poised. His face is obscured not with a balaclava but a blue surgical mask to guard …
Read more from the source : Friends of Europe
Tags : Libya, covid 19, coronavirus,
The Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela said Malta and Libya recognize the need for more protection of the borders of both Eastern Europe and the central Mediterranean, southern Libya and more areas in both contintents. The Maltese Prime Minister was meeting the Libyan Prime Minister…
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Tags : Libya, migration, Malta,
The recent developments in Libya have been characterised by various breakdowns in negotiations, as competing visions about the future of governance, power, and intrastate relations unfold. Nine years after the 2011 toppling of the Qaddafi regime, the political transition in Libya is still at…
Read more from the source : E-International relations
Tags : Libya, post-revolution, challenges,
Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron did a brilliant job removing Muammar Gaddafi and left a Libya size hole for Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, Salafists and assorted “democrats” to fill. That is the inevitable consequence having created a power vacuum and believing, or pretending to believe…
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Tags : Libya, Nicolas Sarkozy, David Cameron, Gaddafi,