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Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya

May 18, 2013

Tebu security staff at Saharan oil fields in southern Libya. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS

(Image: Tebu security staff at Saharan oil fields in southern Libya. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS) Rebecca Murray for IPS SOUTHERN LIBYA – Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, (Continue Reading…)

Armed Militias in Libya Push for Political Control

Members of armed revolutionaries stage a protest in front of the Libyan Justice Ministry in Tripoli

(Image:  Armed revolutionaries stage a protest in front of the Libyan Justice Ministry in Tripoli, April 30, 2013. Photo by REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) Abdullah Elmaazi for Al Monitor Ironically, former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi claimed in his final days, “I am in (Continue Reading…)

Ministry of Defence Mines and Explosives Department – the full report on Benghazi explosion

Libya Herald The full forensic report by the Mines and Explosives Department in the Ministry of Defence has been released and is reproduced below in full: To the Chief of Staff: We would like to inform you that following close (Continue Reading…)