Libya’s Presidential Council abruptly dismissed Sadiq al-Kabir, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya, on Monday, a move that threatens to exacerbate tensions in the deeply divided North African country, the Associated Press reported. Al-Kabir, who had led the bank since October 2011, was replaced...
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Three key Libyan leaders agreed this week to form a new unity government that would supervise long-delayed elections in the North African country, Reuters reported. After the deposing of autocrat Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya was split into two rival administrations in 2014 which was followed...
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Libya’s government on Thursday said they reached an agreement for militias to leave the capital city Tripoli after controlling it for more than a decade out of the chaotic aftermath of the Arab Spring, the BBC reported. Interior Minister Imed Trabelsi told reporters the deal was...
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Poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi penned eerily prescient lines in the days before he would die in a flood in the city of Derna, on eastern Libya’s Mediterranean coast. “The rain /Exposes the drenched streets, /the cheating contractor, /and the failed state,” he wrote after attending a public...
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Hundreds of Libyans protested in the devasted eastern city of Derna this week to demand an international investigation and government accountability following deadly floods that killed tens of thousands of people in the region, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, Storm Daniel caused major floods...
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More than 5,000 people are presumed dead and at least 10,000 are missing after Storm Daniel caused two dams to collapse in northeastern Libya, in what observers have described as one of the deadliest storms in North Africa, CNN reported. Libya’s weather agency said the storm...
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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush fled to Turkey last week after the oil-rich country’s prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, sacked her amid protests stemming from news that she had met with the Israeli foreign minister in Rome. Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who publicly announced the...
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah dismissed Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush on Monday after she met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen last week in Rome, a meeting that sparked protests in the war-torn country and caused controversy in Israel, Al Jazeera reported. The diplomatic fiasco...
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The European Union this week defended its record of helping migrants in Libya as “essential” against accusations by United Nations investigators that the bloc was facilitating crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses in the war-ravaged North African country, Africanews reported. On Monday, investigators released...
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Deadly clashes in Libya’s capital killed dozens of people in recent days, in unrest that has sparked fears over reigniting another civil war in the war-torn North African country, the Wall Street Journal reported. Tripoli officials said at least 32 people died and 159 others were...
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Libyan protesters torched the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk over the weekend, vowing to continue the violence until all of the country’s ruling elites resign from power, the Middle East Eye reported. On Friday, thousands of people took to the streets across the...
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Libya’s rival factions failed to reach a deal on constitutional arrangements for elections this week, a development that has raised concerns about another potential split in the North African country following more than a decade of civil war, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. On Monday, lawmakers...
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Libya’s east-based parliament approved a new government this week to replace the cabinet of interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a move that could reignite tensions and again divide the war-torn nation into rival administrations, Reuters reported Wednesday. A majority of lawmakers voted to appoint Fathi...
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