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Former Libyan foreign minister, Mohammed al-Dairi AFP

Mohammed al-Dairi: Libyan state-building killed by corruption and division

Libya's former foreign minister, based in the country's east, says political decisions are no longer Libyan, as he recalls several missed opportunities since 2011.

Johaina Khaldieh 17, May 2025
Sadiq al-Kabir has run Libya’s finances for 13 years, building support and interest in global financial circles. Ewan White

Sadiq Al-Kabir: Libya’s increasingly dominant central banker

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?

Kawthar Zantour 21, Jul 2024

Libya’s politics of division

Since 2011, division and anarchy have engulfed the North African country. Today, it's split in half: one government in the east and another in the west

Ahmed Maher 22, Jun 2023
A picture of Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati is placed on a residential building in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Poverty in Lebanon's 'City of Billionaires' Drives Deadly Migration

In the city from which Lebanon's richest politicians hail, the poorest residents once again mourn their dead. Among them, Mustafa Misto, a taxi driver in the city of Tripoli, and his three young…

25, Sep 2022
This file photo taken on September 24, 2020, shows the Brega oil port in Masra Brega, some 270Km west of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. (Photo by AFP)

Libya Struggles with Self-Made Oil Crisis

In mid-April, the MENA growth forecast of the World Bank anticipated that the economies of Arab oil exporter countries “are expected to grow by 5.2% in 2022, the fastest rate since 2016, on the back…

Dalia Ziada 29, Apr 2022
1-	People wave Libyan national flags from a bus during a parade in the coastal Libyan city of Tajura, east of the capital Tripoli on February 25, 2022, as they commemorate the anniversary of a demonstration that took place on the same day from Tajura to Tripoli in 2011 during the uprising that toppled longtime strongman Muammar Kadhafi. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP)

Libya at the Crossroad of Election or War

While the international community is hyper-focused on Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Libya is on the brink of a slowly brewing civil war, that will be awfully difficult to control this time and…

Dalia Ziada 18, Mar 2022
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