Jihadists have a 'safe haven' in Libya?
Source: CNN
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-16 04:48:50 -0700 | travel-news
Paul Cruickshank and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN updated 1:19 PM EDT, Tue May 15, 2012 The National Transitional Council is struggling to exert control over militia groups in Libya (CNN) -- Diplomats and other observers in Libya say that with elections...
Former BBC Trust chairman says search for new DG should be widened
Source: The Guardian
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-15 23:40:18 -0700 | political-news
Graeme Robertson The former chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, has said the search for the corporation's next director general must look outside the small group of internal candidates who have applied. Lyons said he does not believe...
EU Ends Arms Embargo Against Libya
Source: Arab News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-15 20:15:00 -0700 | travel-news
October 2004 EU foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya yesterday, despite fears for Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but imposed a visa ban on senior officials from Myanmar. At a meeting that...
Charbel meets with delegation of protesters in Tripoli
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-16 04:49:32 -0700 | disasters-news
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and Internal Security Forces Director General Achraf Rifi met on Wednesday with a delegation of people protesting in Abdel Hamid Karami Square in Tripoli, the National News Agency reported. Charbel and Rifi met with a delegation...
Aoun says Mikati “disappointed” him
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-16 03:11:40 -0700 | disasters-news
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said on Tuesday evening that Prime Minister Najib Mikati has disappointed him. I knew [from the very beginning] that Mikati would disappoint me, but the majority agreed [to elect him for the premiership]....
Geagea against 1960 electoral law
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-15 23:25:49 -0700 | disasters-news
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said in remarks published on Wednesday that the LF was against the 1960 electoral law that is based on simple majority representation. Discussions are ongoing with our allies to agree on an electoral law that...
Berri: Stopping national dialogue was ‘big mistake'
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-15 22:29:01 -0700 | disasters-news
Speaker Nabih Berri said in remarks published on Wednesday that it was a big mistake to stop national dialogue sessions. I supported resuming national dialogue even if some [figures] did not attend the sessions. Dialogue is important in these difficult...
Libya Islamist quits post to enter politics: aide
Source: Reuters
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 22:40:32 -0700 | travel-news
Topics Tripoli Military Council leader Abdel Hakim Belhadj speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tripoli, November 28, 2011. One of Libya's most prominent Islamists, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, has stepped down from his post as head of an armed militia...
Nato must investigate the civilian casualties of its Libyan campaign | David Mepham
Source: The Guardian
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 16:52:55 -0700 | travel-news
Nato's claim that it cannot investigate civilian casualties because it has no mandate to be in Libya is feeble' ... a damaged building in Tripoli. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev/AP At least 72 civilians, including 24 children, were killed by Nato air...
Africa: UN Envoy Rice On Foreign Policy and American Ideals
Source: All Africa
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 07:32:12 -0700 | disasters-news
Mission to the United Nations Coral Gables, FL May 11, 2012 Commencement Address by Ambassador Susan E...Thank you for your distinguished service to our country and your extraordinary leadership of the University of Miami...And I'm hoping that if my speech...
LIBYA: Uneasy calm in Sebha after clashes
Source: IRIN
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 07:20:42 -0700 | travel-news
A tenuous peace has taken hold in Libya's southwestern city of Sebha more than a month after tribal clashes killed at least 70 people, with tensions still high between communities living here, many of whom have their own armed militias,...
Africa: Neo Colonialism Swarms Continent?
Source: All Africa
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 03:34:26 -0700 | political-news
It was meant to emancipate Africa in all spheres, and enhance Africans to be determiners of their own destiny. The unitary support endowed by African countries during the liberation of Africa was a symbol of the true spirit of African...
NATO accused of having minimized civilian casualties in Libya
Posted by: Nazish Fatima
Nālūt :: Libya | updated 2012-05-15 08:16:29 -0700 | disasters-news
Human Rights Watch said in a report published Monday, May 14 that the air strikes in Libya by NATO last year claimed the lives of seventy-two civilians and accuses the Atlantic Alliance not to have taken the measure of extent...
Libya: Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
Source: Africa Headlines
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2012-05-14 00:53:23 -0700 | political-news
Hundreds more, from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, were moved to bigger facilities due to overcrowding. Libya. "All West African migrants are going through Sabha via Chad or Niger, and those originating from the Horn of Africa are going through Sudan...
Libya: Attacks On the Press in 2011
Source: Africa Headlines
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-13 23:58:55 -0700 | travel-news
Five journalists were killed amid fierce fighting between rebels and loyalists. Qaddafi's regime unleashed a widespread campaign to silence foreign and local journalists, detaining dozens in abusive conditions. In February, Qaddafi invited reporters to the capital, Tripoli, only to restrict...
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