Vol 65 No 19 | LIBYA Tensions around farcical leadership battle 19th September 2024 The sacking of the central bank governor triggered another round of factional infighting, disrupting oil production and exports In a sea of disinformation, private agendas and shifting alliances, Libya moves from one crisis to another. The latest centres on the Presidency Council’s decision to sack th...
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 18 | LIBYA Oil output collapses as central bank stand-off continues 3rd September 2024 The rival Benghazi-based government has ordered a shutdown of eastern fields causing production to drop by half A collapse in daily oil output has been one of the results of the chaos engulfing Libya’s central bank. After the rival Benghazi-based government of Osama Hammad, backed mili... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 8 | LIBYA Political stalemate persists as missiles target premier's house 3rd April 2024 UN envoy Bathily calls for all-party talks to agree roadmap for transition and elections A missile attack apparently launched from the sea on the residence of Libya's Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in Tripoli's upscale Hay Andalus neighbourhood on 31 March underlin... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 5 | LIBYAMALI Tuareg-Wagner clash in Libya? 29th February 2024 Unconfirmed reports in Tripoli claim that a group of Tuareg fighters in southwestern Libya has captured some Wagner Group soldiers there in revenge for the capture of Kidal, in nor...
Vol 64 No 22 | LIBYAUNITED STATES Murky waters around Tobruk 2nd November 2023 Eyebrows have been raised in Washington DC by the lobbying contract filed in October between the Libyan House of Representatives, now based in Benghazi, and K-Street outfit Vogel G...
Vol 64 No 19 | LIBYA Foreigners swoop on Derna as politicians wash their hands 21st September 2023 The visit by Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to Benghazi on 16-17 September is seen by local pundits as another attempt by a foreign power to use the flooding d...
Vol 64 No 19 | LIBYAMIGRATION How militias police the Mediterranean for Europe 11th September 2023 Accused by the UN of heinous rights abuses, militias tied to Dubaiba and Haftar now run border control Militias linked to the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) and its erstwhile rivals in the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar have taken over nat...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 19 | LIBYA Red Cross reports 10,000 missing after devastating storms and floods hit eastern region 13th September 2023 Rescue efforts held back by poor infrastructure and administrative dysfunction The Mediterranean storms that lashed Libya's coastline on 10-11 September have destroyed two major dams and unleashed floods killing over 2,300 people in Derna, one of the biggest ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 14 | LIBYARUSSIA All quiet on the Wagner front 6th July 2023 The Kremlin's mercenaries are still key to Khalifa Haftar's military strength but he has no interest in stirring up yet more trouble The current hiatus in Libya's civil war means any effects on the Wagner Group's Libyan operations from the crisis in Russia would have been hard to spot. The mercenaries remain the...
Vol 64 No 14 | LIBYACHINA Cave-in hits bitcoin miners 6th July 2023 Up to 60 Chinese nationals, along with an undisclosed number of Libyans, were arrested in western Libya last month when police discovered major illegal Bitcoin-mining operations.