Libya’s prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is set to name a transitional government Thursday tasked with unifying the war-torn nation and leading it to elections in December. Dbeibah, himself selected earlier this month in a
Egypt’s Sisi offers support to Libya’s new PM
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met incoming Libyan prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh in Cairo on Thursday and offered his country’s support in achieving stability in its troubled neighbour, the presidency said in a statement.
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A first agreement has helped to overcome the divisions that have affected Libya for years. New leaders have been appointed. Who are they? Will they have the means to set the country on the road
Blueprint for a raid: Documents shed light on plan to buy U.S. helicopter gunships for assault on Tripoli
The commandos for hire who landed in Benghazi in June 2019 had arranged, at great expense, to procure every weapon and tool needed for an assault on Libya’s government. They obtained drones, inflatable speedboats, night-vision
Explaining The Conflict In Libya
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
Libya: Over 150 migrants freed in raid on traffickers
Libyan authorities raided a secret prison in a southeastern city used by human traffickers and freed at last 156 African migrants, as the U.N. migration agency said Monday more than 1,300 Europe-bound migrants were returned
Unconvincing cabinet reshuffle reminds Algeria’s Hirak supporters of blocked horizons of change
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets, Monday, in Algiers and other major cities to demonstrate against the ruling elite A ministerial reshuffle announced by Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune on Sunday failed to
Why they killed Gaddafi
Colonialism is alive and well in central banking 2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of NATO’s violent intervention in Libya and the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi. As was suspected at the time – and was later
Dbeibah tries to strike a balance between Egypt, Turkey in Libya
The new Libyan prime minister assuages Cairo’s fears of strong bias towards Ankara New Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah visited Cairo on Thursday, in a symbolic move aimed at reassuring Cairo, given his close
Algeria’s president dissolves parliament, calls for early elections
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday announced the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and called early legislative elections as the North African nation struggles with health, political and economic crises.