FARAH ABUSHWESHA was seven when she left Libya and her parents, to live in safety with her Irish grandmother. Two weeks ago, the film-maker and writer returned to a changed country, to meet her father again AS THE AIRCRAFT descends into (Continue Reading…)
Children peer out from the back of a pick up truck as their family reach the Tunisian border town of Dehiba (AFP/File, Carl de Souza) TUNIS — Tunisia on Friday closed the second main border post into Libya following attacks (Continue Reading…)
Benghazi, Libya – “Goodnight, Benghazi,” is what I said when I closed the dense curtains in my hotel room overlooking a beautiful lake, that separated me from the rest of the city. The beautiful lake also smelled like sewage, (Continue Reading…)
Alex Crawford reporting from Libya. Photograph: Sky Three female correspondents – Alex Crawford of Sky News, Sara Sidner of CNN and Zeina Khodr of al-Jazeera – have shared the achievement of the year prize at the 2011 Sky Women in Film and TV awards (Continue Reading…)
Abdul Elhamdi is to return to Libya on Friday after two months of successful surgeries that have saved his leg. The 15-year-old schoolboy was flown to England for urgent medical treatment after he and his friend Wadir discovered a stash (Continue Reading…)
A top UN official called on Thursday for global funding to expedite the removal of thousands of unexploded ordnance littering Libya in the wake of the eight-month revolt against Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. Georg Charpentiar, the world body’s deputy special representative (Continue Reading…)
TRIPOLI, Libya – After repeated delays, Libya announced the lineup for a transitional government that will draft a constitution and prepare the country for elections. Those who set up the interim government said they tried to ensure that the demands (Continue Reading…)
ALGIERS — Algeria on Thursday slammed as “unacceptable” comments by Aisha Kadhafi, the daughter of the slain Libyan leader, after she called for the overthrow of her country’s interim government. The foreign ministry warned that she had abused the hospitality (Continue Reading…)
TRIPOLI — Libya’s security forces will integrate 50,000 fighters who battled loyalists of late dictator Moamer Kadhafi, the country’s interim interior minister said on Thursday. Fawzi Abdelali said the fighters from all of the combat brigades who fought on the (Continue Reading…)
As Libyans celebrated their freedom, the gross hypocrisy of parts of the Left was exposed. The knee-jerk condemnation of NATO intervention was bad enough, but large numbers of people condemned the revolutionaries and praised Gaddafi. As the world starts (Continue Reading…)
