By Houda Mzioudet Tripoli, 14 November 2013 A roundtable was organised yesterday by United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) with the participation of the Ministry of Defence and UNDP. Entitled “the role of Women in Dialogue and Peace Building”, it brought women and men form all walks of life including academia, civil society organisations, politics, EU and UN and [ Read More ]
14 November 2013 The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today cited the need for Libya to devise a comprehensive strategy to address serious crimes committed in the country and for the international community to help close the impunity gap in the North African nation. Fatou Bensouda told the Security Council that the “new Libya” desires to become a [ Read More ]
TRIPOLI Thu Nov 14, 2013 Libya has lost some $6 billion due to protests at ports and oil fields that have reduced the North African country’s crude exports to a trickle, its economy minister said on Thursday. Tribes, armed militia and members of the Berber minority have seized most oil ports and fields since August to demand more rights or [ Read More ]
BY AZIZ EL YAAKOUBI RABAT Thu Nov 14, 2013 French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday France was considering giving Libya more aid in counter-terrorism, including training more police. Two years after a NATO-backed revolt ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s government is struggling to control rival militias and al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants who are using lawless southern Libya as a [ Read More ]
Social media is a global phenomenon. 1.8 billion people worldwide ...
Last week’s deadly assault on a US diplomatic mission in ...
The first reports from Libya last week said the attack ...
In front of Benghazi’s stock market, pedestrians pick their way ...
September 2012 Edward I. Koch, the former three-term Democratic mayor of ...
BBC New