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by Maryline Dumas (tripoli) Inter Press Service TRIPOLI- In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa, Op-ed
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Tagged European Commission, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, Libyan Navy, Ministry of Defence, Muammar Gaddafi, Sharia, Tripoli
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Arusha — THE Arusha-based African Court of Human and People’s Rights ordered the government of Libya to treat with respect the son of the former country’s president, the late Muammar Gaddafi. The court issued an order for provisional measures in … read more »
Posted in CAR, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
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Tagged International Criminal Court, Kenya, Libya, Libyan, Mau Forest, Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Zintan
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Remember all the hoopla the Obama administration engaged in after helping Libya’s “freedom fighters” oust (and sodomize and murder) the nation’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi? Remember the rationale used by Obama to justify using the U.S. military to help Libya’s … read more »
The top United Nations official in Libya Tarek Mitri, head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefed the UN Security Council on January 29th regarding the situation in that beleaguered country. He provided a mixed report. He … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa
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Tagged Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, Mali, Mitri, Muammar Gaddafi, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
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By Daniel Greenfield France took the lead in pushing for military intervention to overthrow Gaddafi. Now it’s fighting Islamists, many of them from Libya, armed with weapons that France airdropped to them, that Qatar smuggled to them or weapons from … read more »
Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana Chief among the many challenges that confront the African continent are three evils that African thinkers and intellectuals must urgently find durable solutions to—The vicious scramble for Africa’s oil, diamonds and other rich pickings by Western countries … read more »
Who was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi? Was he a deadly Libyan tyrant and dictator as the Western media portrayed him – bent on assuming the leadership of the Arab world in the manner of Gamal Abdul Nasser? That Gaddafi was a … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa
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Tagged Arab, Gaddafi, Habib Bourguiba, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, Ronald Reagan, United States
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Undocumented foreign nationals in Libya remain at risk of a wide range of human rights abuses. It is shameful that Gaddafi-era abuses against foreigners, especially those from Sub-Saharan Africa, have not only continued but worsened. The Libyan authorities must acknowledge … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged Amnesty International, European Union, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, libyan news, Muammar Gaddafi, sub-Saharan Africa, Tripoli
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Ethiopian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali refugees. What do you think they go through? Refugees in Egypt face regular threat of arrest, torture, and deportation to their countries of origin. The revolution has not changed that reality. On the life of … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Darfur, Darfuri, Egypt, eritreans news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Libya, Libyan, Omar al-Bashir, Somali, sudanese news, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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By Stephen Lendman Washington’s war on Libya rages. Fighting didn’t stop after NATO said its seven-month 2011 “mission” ended. Ravaging a nonbelligerent country wasn’t good enough. Occupation harshness inflicts more pain. Jamahiriya Green Resistance is strong. Its struggle continues. It … read more »
BBC Report A year after the capture and violent death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on 20 October 2011, what has happened to his remaining family and members of his inner circle? Three of Gaddafi’s sons were killed in … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mali
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Tagged Algeria, Gaddafi, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, International Criminal Court, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Tripoli
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Najmuddin A. SHAIKH The appearance on You Tube of the trailer of a movie called “Innocence of Muslims” received little attention when it was first uploaded. Subsequently however a version was uploaded which was dubbed in Arabic and which was … read more »
Former leaders of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NCT), which fought as a NATO proxy in last year’s war against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, have accused then French President Nicolas Sarkozy of ordering the assassination of the Libyan … read more »
By: Jim Kouri Close to three weeks after the deadly and destructive terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a team of FBI investigators finally had boots of the ground in order to examine the crime scene, a … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged AlQaeda, Benghazi, FBI, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Libya, Libyan, obama, Obama Administration, United States
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The month of October 2011 stands as an historical monument to heroism and apocalypse in the Libyan desert as the people of Sirte, hometown to Col. Gaddafi, staged a desperate, doomed fight to protect their families and homes from the … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, Thomas C. Mountain
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Tagged Democratic Party (Libya), Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Sirte
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By Felicity Arbuthnot, Palestine Chronicle ‘Oh what a tangled web they weave When first they practice to invade A sovereign nation and deceive The world about their dark crusade.’– (Michael Leunig, Poet, Cartoonist, 1945:) This weekend a detailed article in the … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged Bashar Al-Assad, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Qaddafi, Syria, United States
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Alexander MEZYAEV In Libya, the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack which took the lives of the US ambassador and other mission staff. While the unrest was immediately sparked by the release of an anti-Muslim film on YouTube, an … read more »
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Tagged Arab, Benghazi, Hope, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Soviet Union, Youtube
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On the eve of Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination for reelection as president, a new report detailing the waterboarding and other forms of CIA torture meted out to Libyan detainees served to demolish the Democrats’ image, endlessly … read more »
Deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s notorious spy chief is in custody in Tripoli after extradition from Mauritania, Libya’s premier said Wednesday, a step toward bringing the man linked to aircraft bombings and atrocities to justice. A plane carrying Abdullah al-Senoussi … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Abdullah Senussi, al-Senoussi, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Libya, Libyan, Lockerbie, Mauritania, Nancy Pelosi
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Amsterdam – The son of killed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi says that he wants to be tried for alleged war crimes in the Netherlands, and a trial in Libya would be tantamount to murder. In a filing by defence lawyers … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril took an early lead in Libya’s national assembly election, according to partial tallies released on Monday that pointed to a weaker than expected showing for Islamist parties. If confirmed that trend would set Libya … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under Muammar Gaddafi’s … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Back in January Faiz Fathi Jfara of Bani Walid asked a simple question, “I just need an answer from NATO: Why did you destroy my home and kill my family?” NATO refuses to answer him. NATO went to war in … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, HRW, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, New York Times
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A bomb went off outside the US embassy offices in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi Tuesday night, causing minor damage to its main gate. A US embassy official in Tripoli told BBC that no one was injured in the … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged 19 June, Africa news, African news, Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, International Committee of the Red Cross, Libya, Libyan, Tripoli, United States
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By Jason Pack In today’s Libya, local is king. Yet, if the country is to become a functioning state governed by an elected leadership capable of empowering its citizens and providing an equitable distribution of its resource wealth, then, the … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Cyrenaica, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, National Transitional Council, NTC, Sirte Basin, United States
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MI5 betrayed enemies of Colonel Gaddafi given refuge in Britain in a covert joint operation with Libyan spies working on UK soil, documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal. Gaddafi’s secret agents were supplied by MI5 with intelligence, secure … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Abdelhakim Belhadj, afria travel, Africa news, African news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jack Straw, Libya, Libyan, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, London, Muammar Gaddafi, Tony Blair
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As billions are spent on weapons systems, on overthrowing governments, on arming terrorists perpetrating the most shocking crimes Humankind has seen in decades, a humanitarian catastrophe is looming right under the noses of the FUKUS-Axis in the Sahel region. There … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Ban Ki-moon, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan, Sahel, Syria, United Nations, United States
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By Glen Johnson TRIPOLI, Libya — Ahmed Mostafa and his friends paid thousands of dollars among them to get to Libya recently, traveling with gangs of smugglers through Western Africa. It was to be their escape from the sprawling slums … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Organization for Migration, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, North Africa, Tripoli
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Tripoli – The administration of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was running a covert programme to conceal weapons in Libyan embassies across the globe, a senior official in the new government said on Thursday. The weapons included handguns, grenades and … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, European Union, Gaddafi, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Libya, Libyan, Morocco, Muammar Gaddafi, United States
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Tripoli – Libya’s interior minister on Tuesday ruled out a visit by British police to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing or the killing of British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher almost two decades ago. “There is no treaty between Britain and Libya … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Africa news, African, African news, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Libya, Libyan, London, Muammar Gaddafi, Pan Am Flight 103, Tony Blair, Tripoli
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