Photo: Sergey Ponomarev / AP Photo February 29, 2012 By Tom Arnold Flying into Tripoli International Airport offers the traveller an aerial view of Libya’s pressing challenges as well as its future potential. First the plane flies over the Mediterranean coastline, scattered with sleepy ports ringed by the hulks of [...]

February 29, 2012 The top United Nations envoy to Libya today expressed confidence that the North African nation will be able to overcome current difficulties and pursue the path towards the goals it committed itself to when the popular uprising began a year ago. “It is clear that the Libyan [...]

February 29, 2012 Libya will donate $100 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian opposition and allow them to open an office in Tripoli, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, in a further sign of its strong support for forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Representatives from the Syrian National Council [...]

February 29, 2012 The regime of Muammar Gaddafi deserves to enter the Guinness World Records for the number of top officials given false passports for use in their travels. According the internet site “Revolution of Libya”, a document submitted by the National Transitional Council (NTC) to the Egyptian Attorney General [...]

Libya plans to recruit workers from Sudan according to the Libya’s General Union of Workers. A delegation from Libya’s General Union of Workers visited Khartoum last week to set up new ties with Sudan and investigate the possibilities of benefiting from Sudan’s labour skills in order to rebuild Libya. While [...]

February 29, 2012 Libyans earned their freedom last year from the brutal regime of Muammar Qaddafi, but their victory came at a heavy price. Thousands of lives were lost in the uprising, and cities, towns and infrastructure were severely damaged. Libya currently needs urgent help from nations like Indonesia to [...]

Libya’s political, military personalities are forming their groups or coalition in run-up to June elections. By Dominique Soguel – TRIPOLI There may be no law governing the formation of political parties in the new Libya, but political and military personalities are wasting no time in launching their groups or coalitions. [...]

Photo: REUTERS/Osman Orsal February 29, 2012 Libya’s government budget provides for up to 68.5 billion dinars in spending this year, as the country tries to rebuild from last year’s war which ousted Muammar Gaddafi. A statement from Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib’s office said the transitional government, appointed in November until [...]

February 28, 2012 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States is working closely with Libya as it struggles to create a post-Moammar Gadhafi existence. Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib will be visiting the United States in a [...]

Wednesday, December 21, 1988 was the longest night of the year, the night of the winter solstice. At 6.30pm that evening Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London Heathrow airport en route to JFK New York. On board Clipper Maid of the Skies, as it was called, were 16 [...]

Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra February 28, 2012 Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil on Tuesday vowed anew to help the Syrian people, who he said are living a “tragedy”, after meeting representatives of the opposition Syrian National Council in Tripoli. Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council “will deliver to our brothers in Syria [...]

Photo: Reuters/Anis Mili February 28, 2012 The first Libyan Tebu conference is to take place in Tripoli on 1 March. There are an estimated 12,000-15,000 Tebus living in Libya, mainly south of Sebha.  There are significant numbers in the towns of Murzuq and Qatrun. There are far greater numbers across [...]

Photo Damian Casapinta February 28, 2012 Professionals and international businesses interested in the rebuilding and development of Libya discussed key challenges and opportunities at a two-day conference in Malta, which concluded today. The event, entitled ‘The New Libya Forum: Building the future together’, was organized by Deloitte firms in the [...]

February 28, 2012, By Kurt Sansone A Labour government would work on four priority areas to foster better relations with Libya, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this morning. He was addressing an audience of Maltese, Libyan and foreign businessmen at the New Libya Forum, a two-day conference that started yesterday. [...]

February 27, 2012 By Brigitte Scheffer Libya will announce a law that will return land and buildings expropriated by late ruler Muammar Qaddafi to the original landowners “within weeks,” a senior member of the Land Ownership Committee said. “Phase one will return unused lands, empty shops, buildings and villas taken [...]