Libya

A fight over the nation's piggy bank is emblematic of the squabbles and elbowing since Gaddafi. In one of the world's most heavily armed yet least secure states, a central banker must be on guard.

No stranger to rivalries, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya is technocrat who has had to develop his political wiles, most recently clashing with the prime minister. Is this the next Gaddafi?

Thirteen years after its revolution, Libya is divided between east and west, each with its own respective administrations, foreign backers and tribal rivalries

The country's 'safe-haven' reserves were looted in 2011 when tonnes went missing just before Gaddafi was ousted. Now, after a big purchase last year, there are worries for its security.

Because the government ceded an unhealthy degree of authority to local militias and tribal intermediaries, no one can dismantle these groups without risking their own lives.

The countries of the Arab Maghreb Union have ambitious plans for 2024 as they try to return to the kind of robust expansion seen before inflation and global geopolitical turbulence hit.

Libyans say climate change isn't an excuse for the amount of neglect that happened with the maintenance of the dams

R2P reached a high point in 2011 with global intervention in Libya but was buried by inaction in Syria. Did the global community fail to make it work, or were its ambitions unrealistic from the start?

Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this year were followed by the Morocco earthquake, floods in Libya, and an extreme heatwave in Europe, which will further drive costs up