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ALL ARTICLES LIBYA

Diplomacy 06/07/2020

Washington keen to keep control of UNSMIL

The United States is working behind the scenes to set up a dual leadership of the UN's mission in Libya and, as one of many players in a complex game of three-dimensional chess, to maintain US national Stephanie Williams in place. [...]

SpotlightPolitics 02/07/2020

Behind-the-scenes battle in Tripoli for top intelligence job

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu was on a trip to Tripoli on 17 June, along with the head of the Turkish intelligence agency MIT, Hakan Fidan, as Ankara seeks to weigh in on the overhaul of Libyan intelligence. ©Turkish Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters

Business 30/06/2020

Malta court orders EACS to pay UAE's Fly Aviation Services €1.8m

A court in Malta has sentenced Libya's Executive Authority for Air Cargo and Special Flights (EACS), headed by Shaker Own, to cough up €1.8m to Fly Aviation Services. [...]

Business Ports and airports 26/06/2020

Turkey sets its sights on Misrata port operating concession to chagrin of France's Bolloré group

SpotlightPolitics 25/06/2020

Libya's Chadian legion to return home and wreak havoc?

Libyan National Army (LNA) members head out of Benghazi to reinforce the troops advancing to Tripoli. ©Reuters

Business 24/06/2020

Consulting firm Libya Desk carves out niche in oil sector

Libya Desk, a small political risk analysis firm founded in 2019 by Mohamed Omar Dorda and Oliver Crowley, is quietly expanding its activities. [...]

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in West and North Africa. [...]

Diplomacy 18/06/2020

Germany, Austria to steer EU's Libya policy

Shake-up of EU's foreign delegations leaves Germany and Austria with key Libya roles. [...]

Luigi Di Maio (left) and Mevlüt Çavusoglu, respectively Foreign Ministers of Italy and Turkey.

Politics 17/06/2020

Rome shields investments from Turkey's insatiability

Italy feels threatened by Turkey's growing influence in Libya and is working night and day to save its economic interests both inland and out in the Mediterranean Sea. [...]

Business Finance 15/06/2020

Libyan Investment Authority: UN picks EY for hazardous audit job

EY has been entrusted with the vast audit of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund amid an escalating row between the authority's chairman Ali Mahmoud Hassan and prime minister Fayez Sarraj, who would like to see him gone by the end of the month. [...]

Business 12/06/2020

PR advisor Sami Jallouli seeks to recoup $21m in unpaid invoices from Tripoli

Having provided a range of services to Aisha Gaddafi a decade ago, the PR advisor Sami Jallouli obtained an arbitration ruling in his favour concerning unpaid Libyan invoices and ever since has been battling to have the ruling enforced. [...]

Politics 10/06/2020

Tripoli wants to trade for end of Russian support to Haftar

Fayez Sarraj's Government of National Accord is trying to play the economic card to have General Khalifa Haftar's foreign backers make a full retreat. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 09/06/2020

Haftar's army abandons equipment received from UAE after Tripoli routing

The Libyan National Army has been forced to leave behind several hundred tonnes of equipment delivered by air bridge by the United Arab Emirates. [...]

Sadat and Security Side are carrying out a training mission among the government's forces.

Focus Business Defence 08/06/2020

Turkish military company Sadat turns Erdogan-Sarraj alliance into business opportunity

Turkish paramilitary company Sadat, headed by former Turkish general Adnan Tanriverdi, has set up a partnership with Fawzi Boukatif-led Libyan company Security Side to train the forces fighting for Fayez Sarraj's Government of National Accord. [...]

Spotlight Business Defence 05/06/2020

Aviation service provider Christiaan Durrant casts his shadow over Cabo Delgado

Helicopters currently stationed in Libya could soon been deployed to Mozambique's oil-rich province where a jihadist insurrection continues to smoulder. The aircraft were reportedly supplied by Durrant's firm Lancaster 6. [...]

Politics 03/06/2020

Fayez Sarraj willing to pay for backup in Fezzan

Territorial gains made by forces loyal to Tripoli have opened up a new path for the Government of National Accord, which has been trying to win back alliances in Fezzan. The stakes are high in the southwest region, whose oilfields are key to the country's economy. [...]

Diplomacy Defence 02/06/2020

Europe's Operation IRINI treads water

The European naval operation IRINI is still incapable of stopping arms from entering Libya, the very reason it was set up. [...]

Business 29/05/2020

Freight: Name Logistics keen for larger share of Libyan market

The British air and sea freight specialist Name Logistics Group wants to increase its business in Libya despite the chaotic security situation of the airports in the west of the country. [...]

Politics 27/05/2020

Erdogan sets up air bridge to Tripoli and Misrata to counter Haftar

Turkey is further strengthening its military presence in Libya, where it supports the government led by Fayez Sarraj in Tripoli against Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA). [...]

Business 27/05/2020

Halliburton, AMI, LTR Energy: AmCham Libya boosts its ranks

The American Chamber of Commerce in Libya welcomed new board members in May from oil services firm Halliburton and health specialist AMI. Their appointments signal a revival in US interest for business opportunities in Libya. [...]

Diplomacy 26/05/2020

Bashir Saleh, MbZ's new eminence grise

Bashir Saleh, Muammar Gaddafi's former financial and African affairs specialist now living in Abu Dhabi, has been offering his friendship and advice to UAE crown prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan - both on Libyan and African affairs. [...]

Business Finance 26/05/2020

Tripoli Central Bank of Libya governor Al Kabir loses closest ally Tarik Yousef Al Megarief

Libyan "paymaster" Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir has lost the support of his right-hand man. Tarik Yousef al Megarief is now campaigning against Al Kabir on the central bank's board. [...]

General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army.

Spotlight Politics 22/05/2020

Cairo gunning for General Haftar after loss of Watiya

The military defeat suffered in Watiya by General Khalifa Haftar, who was unable to hold on to the main military base in the west of Libya, has further soured his relations with his Egyptian ally. [...]

Business Oil & gas 20/05/2020

Oil distribution: Mazin Ramadan contracts Strategy& to investigate Ola Energy offshoots

Strategy&, PwC's business management consulting firm, is to look into the investments of the African subsidiaries of Ola Energy held by the Libyan Investment Authority. The work is part of a consolidation of the sovereign fund's accounts. [...]

Business 20/05/2020

Atlantis and Artrans open sea freight routes between Libya and Tunisia

With the land route closed by conflict, two Libyan shipping firms have opened maritime routes between Tunisia and Libya that major players were unable to make profitable. [...]