Sami al-Saadi, wife and four children were secretly flown from Hong Kong to Tripoli where he was tortured by Gaddafi police Ministers have agree to pay more than £2m to the family of a prominent Libyan dissident abducted with the help of MI6 and secretly flown to Tripoli where he was tortured [...]

By Hadeel Al Shalchi (Reuters) – Libyan military prosecutors told the country’s wartime rebel leader not to leave the country on Tuesday after questioning him over the killing of a top field commander during last year’s conflict, a military prosecution official said. Mustafa Abdel Jalil led the National Transitional Council [...]

TRIPOLI — The Ministry of Housing and Utilities is due to submit its proposed budget for 2013 to the Ministry of Finance by the end of this month, as officials continue to grapple with an acute housing shortage the country. During a meeting last week between Deputy Prime Minister Awad [...]

(Reuters) – Libya’s proposed foreign minister was cleared to take office by an Integrity Commission on Tuesday after some members of parliament questioned how close the former ambassador to the United States had been to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi. Ali Aujali was among eight of the 27 ministers nominated by [...]

By Brigitte Scheffer Libya’s new prime minister asked deputy ministers serving under his predecessor to remain in their jobs, reversing an earlier decision to fire them as the oil-rich nation struggles to rebound from last year’s uprising. Ali Zaidan, who was sworn in Nov. 14, earlier faced objections by lawmakers [...]

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Ali Shuaib (Reuters) – Libya’s first elected government was sworn in under tight security on Wednesday, inheriting the daunting task of establishing democracy in a country plagued by rival militias who helped overthrow Muammar Gaddafi last year. In a national congress hall built by Gaddafi shortly [...]

The new Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, has imposed a three-week moratorium on visits to Libya by ministers from other countries. The move is to enable the new government, which is officially inaugurated tomorrow afternoon, time to settle in. “It is a very sensible move”, said one European diplomat in Tripoli. [...]

Libya’s national assembly on Wednesday gave its approval to a cabinet line-up proposed by Prime Minister-designate Ali Zeidan, state media reported, a day after protesters prevented a first attempt to vote on the new cabinet. By News Wires (AFP) – Libya’s national assembly gave its approval on Wednesday to a [...]

Libya’s national assembly elected a new prime minister on Sunday, the second within a month to face the daunting challenge of forming a government acceptable to the country’s many factions. Ali Zeidan, a former career diplomat who had defected in the 1980s to become an outspoken critic of Muammar Gaddafi, [...]

Protesters stormed the chamber of Libya’s parliament on Thursday, preventing MPs from taking their seats to vote on whether to approve a new cabinet. The protest, involving 100 unarmed men from Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, comes amid growing signs of chaos and violence across the country. The men said [...]

At first glance of the television screen, it looks to me like a normal scene from a Middle Eastern open air market or souk. But I pause, look more closely and it is anything but normal. You see Libyans lining up from Benghazi to Tripoli to turn in rifles, pistols, [...]

By Sami Zaptia. For the first time in his official capacity as the de facto president of Libya, Mohamed Magarief, head of Libya’s parliament, the General National Congress (GNC), openly espoused that Libya should be a ‘secular’ state where politics and religion are separated. The revelation came in an interview with Magarief [...]

The interim Libyan leader, Mohammed Magarief, has vowed to disband all illegal militias in the aftermath of the US ambassador’s death this month. All camps and militias not under the authority of the government would be dissolved and no unauthorised checkpoints allowed, he said. Militias that emerged during the fight [...]

THE murder of Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, along with three of his colleagues at his consulate in Benghazi, Libya’s second city, was not an isolated instance of violence directed against Westerners since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime nearly a year ago. In the past few months [...]

TRIPOLI (AFP) – Eight candidates are to contest a September 12 election among members of the General National Congress to become Libya’s new prime minister, an official source said on Thursday. Among them are Mahmud Jibril, who led a transitional council during last year’s revolution which toppled Moamer Kadhafi and [...]