The current situation in Libya can be best characterized as a struggle pitting the ‘centre’ that controls national institutions, the flow of oil, and billions in unfrozen assets against a marginalized ‘periphery’ that can challenge the centre’s legitimacy via its (Continue Reading…)
The scope of the change under way in Libya is the grandest undertaken in any of the Arab Spring countries, write Jason Pack and Barak Barfi. Lacking a national army, trade unions, civil organizations, and other key institutions, the country (Continue Reading…)
From David Cenciotti, the Aviationist: According to a report published in these hours by the UN Commission of inquiry on Libya, the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector to enforce the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973, (Continue Reading…)
A rare moment of joy at a Nigerian wedding in a Tripoli church. Credit:Rebecca Murray/IPS. TRIPOLI, Mar 2, 2012 (IPS) – At the battered terminal of Tripoli’s tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be (Continue Reading…)
MANILA, Philippines – About 1,700 jobs await Filipino nurses in Libya, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the government would resume deployment as soon as the partial ban has been lifted. “We (Continue Reading…)
China’s top two state oil firms have agreed to lift a total of about 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Libya under term deals for 2012, set to raise China’s crude purchases from the North African exporter after (Continue Reading…)
Engineering firm’s investigation into $35M in payments led to 20% drop in share price SNC-Lavalin’s revelation this week that it was investigating $35 million in “undocumented payments” led to a sharp drop in its share price over the past two (Continue Reading…)
Libya has called its neighbours to a meeting on their porous common borders, which since the downfall of Moamer Kadhafi have become major conduits for smuggling, an official said on Thursday. Regional security experts are penciled to meet in Tripoli (Continue Reading…)
Tripoli – Libya will donate $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian opposition and allow them to open an office in Tripoli, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, in a further sign of its strong support for forces fighting (Continue Reading…)
The husband of the Canadian ambassador to Libya took a senior position in a company headed by one of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s sons just weeks after his wife’s appointment to Tripoli in 2009. Edis Zagorac, whose wife is Ambassador Sandra (Continue Reading…)
