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Nearly two years after liberation, Libya at a crossroads
EDITOR’S NOTE: William Wheeler, recipient of the first annual GroundTruth reporting fellowship in theMiddle East, is now on assignment in Libya.Today he begins a series of guest posts for this blog and will soon be filing a GlobalPost Special Report on Libya’s struggle to forge a democracy in the smoldering aftermath …
Statement on the Situation in Libya
The following statement was issued by the U.S., U.K., and French embassies in Tripoli on May 8, 2013. Begin text: We call on all Libyans to refrain from armed protest and violence during this difficult time in the democratic transition.
Opinion: The Zeidan government needs to improve its media output
Speaking in a live interview just after midnight yesterday on the eve of the GNC vote on the Political Isolation Law, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan admitted that neither the state nor the government were strong enough yet.
Qaddafi-era Derna chief assassinated
A former top Qaddafi official in Derna was gunned down in a drive-by shooting as he left evening prayers today.
Opinion: The unwarranted international demonising of Libya and Benghazi
British security analyst Richard Galustian takes issue with the way Libya is being portrayed in the international media and by some foreign governments.