Libyans caught between fear of pandemic and scepticism
Haytham, tall and well-built, turns away customers without masks from a shop entrance in Libya’s capital, telling them to return with a covering or buy one on the spot. “We…
Haytham, tall and well-built, turns away customers without masks from a shop entrance in Libya’s capital, telling them to return with a covering or buy one on the spot. “We…
Libya has Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and only seven million people, but a decade of bloody conflict has left its economy shattered and its population mired in poverty. The…
This month has seen several failed attempts by foreign powers to broker a ceasefire in Libya.First, Fayez al-Sarraj, who heads Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), refused to travel…
On a sweltering night in Libya's capital, Ahlam Fathi watches her son study by candlelight as yet another power cut has plunged the family home into darkness. Despite the large…
Turkey’s decision to approve the deployment of troops to Libya risks plunging the North African nation deeper into a Syrian-style proxy war between regional powers including Russia, experts warn. Libya…
A parallel central bank in eastern Libya stepped up deliveries of new banknotes from Russia this year, before and after eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar launched a military offensive to capture…
The escalation of conflict in Libya has exposed a great deal of foreign meddling that outside powers, both regional and global, would have preferred to keep under the radar. Russia,…
Libya's sovereign wealth fund will appoint auditors within weeks and conclude a wide-ranging examination of its assets by 2019 as part of its efforts to get billions of dollars of…
I went to Libya in 1987 to interview its strongman, Muammar Gaddafi. We spent an evening talking in his colourful Bedouin tent outside the Bab al-Azizya Barracks in Tripoli which…
In seeking to establish its authority in the chaos of Libya, the UN-backed new unity government has two major trump cards - control of state funds and fears of rising…