Plurality of powers in Libya? The Prosecutor’s Office last week released a statement through its official spokesperson that contained some interesting content with huge relevance for the new post February 17 Libya.
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The New Libya Is Free, if You Don’t Count the Jailed Journalists
Being a journalist under the autocratic rule of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi was an exercise in choice: between promoting state propaganda and spending time in jail. Now that NATO has toppled the regime, Libya is a little better at letting reporters practice their trade. But the press in Libya is …
Read More »Opinion: Recommendations for peace and reconciliation in post-conflict Libya
This is the first of a series of articles that will tackle psychosocial issues of war in Libya, the goal being to brainstorm and extend an invitation for all of us to grieve and heal together.
Read More »Opinion: Does Libya have a President now?
I have been following, as any other Libyan, the activities of the General National Congress and its President’s activities, trips and announcements and I started to wonder is he the President of Libya? I decided to go back and read the 2011 Constitutional Declaration that governs the GNC and defines …
Read More »The Libyan public’s role in drafting the Constitution: Part I
Public participation in the Constitution-drafting process is essential to ensure the final document enshrines the rights and freedoms of the Libyan people. (Photo: George Grant)
Read More »Libyans trying to move on from Gaddafi
Libya’s Col Muammar Gaddafi is dead, but his shadow and the decades of his iron rule have not quite departed to the other side.
Read More »Libya Gaddafi death anniversary: Unfinished business
The checkpoint outside Misrata on the Tripoli road is more like an international border than the boundary of a city.
Read More »Libya Attack Brings Challenges for U.S.
CAIRO — Islamist militants armed with antiaircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a lightly defended United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, late Tuesday, killing the American ambassador and three members of his staff and raising questions about the radicalization of countries swept up in the Arab Spring.
Read More »Has Libya bucked the Islamist trend?
It is difficult to sum up the alliance of parties that has done so well in Libya’s first elections since the overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Read More »Should Libya rebuild Gaddafi hometown of Sirte?
The final battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s home-town last October was brutal and drawn-out.
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