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Tripoli — At the battered terminal of Tripoli's tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya's Buraq airlines. This journey to Lagos is one of hundreds the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has facilitated since the start of the uprising against Gaddafi's regime over a year ago. IOM estimates that
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Tripoli - Libya has called its neighbours to a meeting on their porous common borders, which since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi have become major conduits for smuggling, an official said on Thursday. Regional security experts are pencilled to meet in Tripoli on March 9 and 10, paving the way for a ministerial meeting which is tentatively scheduled from March
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New York - Up to 6 000 Libyans are detained in facilities run by revolutionary brigades that helped oust Moammar Gadhafi, the United Nations said on Wednesday. It urged Libya to hurry its process of putting those facilities under government control. The top UN envoy to Libya, Ian Martin, told the Security Council that Libyan authorities recognise that their main
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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. Two parties - one centrist and the other headed by a commander of a union of revolutionary brigades - were formally launched in Tripoli on Monday alone and
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Libya's interim government has proposed a 2012 budget of $55 billion as the country undertakes reconstruction efforts and gears up for its first elections since Moamer Kadhafi was toppled last year. "The estimated total budget for this year is 68.5 billion Libyan dinars ($55 billion/40.9 billion euros)," the prime minister's office said after it was agreed in a ministerial meeting
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As Libyans set about rebuilding their nation one year after the outbreak of a revolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, thousands of immigrants are trapped in makeshift detention centres, denied the chance to work, but with no way home. In the mountainous city of Gheryan southwest of Tripoli, 950 migrants -- some originally bound for Europe, others seeking a better life
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The United Nations is providing relief supplies to residents of the desert town of Kufra in south-eastern Libya, where inter-ethnic clashes in the past two weeks have reportedly killed dozens of people. Georg Charpentier, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Libya, told the UN News Centre today that the world body has begun distributing water, food and non-food items
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Libya's Tawarga tribe apologised to Misrata's people for damage caused in the coastal city during last year's war, according to a statement received by AFP on Friday. "We the Tawarga tribes of Libya apologise to our brothers in Misrata for any action committed by any resident of Tawarga," tribal elders said in a joint statement issued after a meeting in
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Amsterdam - Lawyers for the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi have filed a formal petition at the International Criminal Court seeking an authorised copy of the former Libyan leader's death certificate. Aisha Gaddafi’s lawyer Nick Kaufman said on Wednesday the move is intended in part to show that Libya's National Transitional Council isn't capable of holding a fair trial for her
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Top Republican US Senator John McCain said on Wednesday that war-ravaged Libya faced several challenges, including the need to stop human rights abuses, but also praised the country's progress. "We are very happy to be back here in Libya and to note the enormous progress and changes made in the past few months," McCain, who was accompanied by four other
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A Libyan military court on Wednesday declared itself incompetent in the first trial of alleged loyalists of the toppled regime of Moamer Kadhafi. "We decided the court is incompetent in this matter," said Ali Hamdi, a judge in the court in the eastern city of Benghazi. A defence lawyer welcomed the decision. "This proves that justice is doing well and
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Tripoli - Libya's leader has acknowledged that his transitional government is powerless to control militia that are refusing to lay down their arms after ousting Muammar Gaddafi as it struggles to impose control over the oil-rich North African nation. In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday with The Associated Press, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil warned that remnants of the former regime also still
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Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday. At least 113 people from the Toubu tribe and another 20 from the Zwai tribe have been killed in the desert town of Kufra since the fighting erupted between them on February 12, the
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Tripoli - Libyan government forces will intervene if clashes between rival tribes over control of territory in the south-eastern corner of the country do not stop, the military chief said on Monday. Clashes broke out about 10 days ago in the city of Al Kufra and have continued since, highlighting the challenge of policing the sparsely populated desert. Dozens of
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Residents of the battle-scarred town of Misrata voted on Monday to elect their local council, in Libya's first poll in more than 40 years and held four months after the killing of Moamer Kadhafi. "This is an historic event. We hope these elections will be an example" for the rest of Libya, the president of the port city's electoral commission,
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Kampala - Ugandan officials have stripped Libya's ambassador of his title and evicted him from the embassy, saying he was an obstacle to new relations with post-Muammar Gaddafi Libya, the foreign minister said on Friday. The Libyan diplomat had to be evicted in order to accommodate the arrival in Uganda of a new representative, said Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister Okello
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Benghazi - Libya began celebrating on Friday the first anniversary of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, with fireworks and slogans, even as its new leader vowed to act firmly against further instability. The former rebels who, backed by Nato, toppled Gaddafi last year set up fresh check-points in the capital Tripoli, Benghazi, the eastern birthplace of the uprising, the western
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Benghazi residents began celebrating Friday's first anniversary of the revolt which ousted Moamer Kadhafi, by letting off firecrackers and and honking their car horns late on Thursday. Hundreds of men, women and children gathered near the landmark Tahrir (Liberation) Square to chant anti-Kadhafi slogans as loudspeakers played revolutionary songs. "Curly, we're sorry!" shouted children in a sarcastic reference to Kadhafi
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Tripoli - When Abdullah Senussi ordered the arrest of lawyer Fethi Tarbel on February 15 last year, Libya's then intelligence chief did not realise he was effectively signing the death warrant of Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Tarbel, a human rights activist and former political prisoner, was the co-ordinator of one of the few independent organisations in Libya - a group of
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Tripoli - Oil exports are approaching pre-conflict levels and international sanctions have been lifted, but four months after fighting ended, experts warn that Libya's financial situation remains fragile. The new leadership has inherited an economy in disarray, plagued by the corruption and mood swings of deposed ruler Muammar Gaddafi and his clan, who controlled Libya's key oil industry - and
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Hundreds of Libyans from the eastern city of Benghazi -- the cradle of revolt against Moamer Kadhafi -- held a symbolic torch-lit march on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the first protest against the slain dictator. The demonstrators, most of them related to victims of the notorious Abu Salim prison massacre in Tripoli, lit a tri-colour torch representing the
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Tribal clashes in Libya's remote southeastern desert left at least six people dead on Wednesday, tribal sources said, bringing to around 30 the toll since fighting began three days ago. "Six people died today, including two from wounds sustained overnight," said an elder of the Toubu tribe, speaking of fighting in the town of Kufra. Meanwhile, a previously unknown group
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One year since the anti-Kadhafi revolt erupted, Libya is battling challenges ranging from how to tame rowdy militias who fought his forces to establishing a new rule of law in the country. On Friday, Libya marks the first anniversary of the revolution against Moamer Kadhafi, which was ignited in the eastern city of Benghazi on February 17 and ended on
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Tripoli - When Muammar Gaddafi seized power in 1969 he pledged to eliminate tribalism and unite Libya. But throughout the next 42 years - especially when his popularity wavered - Gaddafi succumbed to the temptation to toy with tribal loyalties and rivalries to tighten his grip. Now he is dead, Libyans who hope their uprising can bring a modern democracy
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A fierce gunfight between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert has killed six people in the past two days and wounded another 20, officials and tribal sources told AFP on Monday. Clashes between members of the Zwai and Tobu tribes in the town of Kufra killed five people on Sunday, while one person was slain in a firefight on
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