Libya

Libya's ratification of a maritime deal with Türkiye could yield short-term gains, but can Ankara trust Saddam Haftar? The record is not reassuring.

Cairo's response was one of swift and total rejection, as the EEZ ratified by the Haftars overlaps with Egypt's EEZ and Cairo

In Libya today, things have never been better. They have also never been worse. Just depends on who you ask

The dominant family in Libya's east tried to take the capital by force in 2019 but were thwarted. Could a son's carefully planned succession soon lead to the same outcome?

New discoveries and multibillion-dollar investments are redrawing the country's energy map

Is a new US plan capable of achieving real unification, or is it simply managing division?

Power-sharing between east and west should be possible, but negotiations get tricky when it comes to dividing revenues and remits. Will the two rival families agree to compromise?

The Haftar family in the east and the Dbeibeh family in the west are both influential players in the Tripoli-Benghazi standoff, but envoys from the US and UN are trying to find a way through.

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

The initiative runs alongside an agreed budget and political discussions on power-sharing facilitated by an American envoy, but Washington is concerned about the presence of foreign fighters