Gaddafi

Libya
Tripoli's phantom chancelleries

Embassies abolished, chargés d'affaires and ambassadors indefinitely in post, legal cases, absence of a foreign minister... Disorder reigns in the not-so-hushed corridors of the North African country's chancelleries.

Libya
Northern Irish Baroness Hoey targets £9.5bn worth of frozen Libyan assets

A member of the British House of Lords, Kate Hoey believes that Libya, by financing the IRA under Gaddafi's regime, owes compensation to victims of the Irish resistance group.

Libya
NOC prevents three Swiss companies from seizing its shares in Mabruk Oil Operations

Libya's national oil company has won its legal battle against Jallouli Communications Group Easymedia, Sysmed Travel and Hôpital de la Tour, which had managed to seize its shares in the French subsidiary Mabruk Oil Operations.

Libya
Shipbuilder Penguin International sends a landing ship to Benghazi

A Penguin International landing craft was docked between mid-January and mid-March at the capital Cyrenaica's port.

Tunisia
Construction group SNC-Lavalin completes withdrawal from North Africa

AtkinsRéalis (formerly SNC-Lavalin) is ending its activities in the Maghreb. The Canadian group has been hit by a number of corruption scandals, particularly in Tunisia and Libya.

The New Guard
Libya, Somalia, South Africa

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

LibyaAhmed Albibas, civil rights champion

SomaliaFathi Bashe, youth ambassador for the Horn of Africa

South AfricaMqokeleli Gomba, chief engineer at Richards Bay

Libya
Dabaiba, Menfi and Haftar reject Sassou's Libyan reconciliation plan

With the exception of Saif al-Islam, Muammar Gaddafi's son, the main Libyan leaders have rejected a charter signed at a meeting on national reconciliation held on the sidelines of an African Union summit.

Libya
Guest list for signing of national reconciliation charter revealed

Promoted by Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the national reconciliation charter is due to be signed by a majority of Libya's political forces on 14 February on the sidelines of the African Union summit.

Libya
How Libyan Investment Authority plans to unfreeze its assets

Libya's sovereign wealth fund has been allowed to recover some of the money blocked since 2011, but only on a case-by-case basis and with the authorisation of the UN sanctions committee. Its first attempt concerns €15bn placed with Euroclear in Belgium.

Libya
Battle resumes to recover Libyan assets

Libyan Investment Authority chief Ali Mahmoud Hassan is trying to obtain flexibility on the use of frozen assets, on the sidelines of his talks with the United Nations sanctions committee on Libya.

Libya
UN mission faces uncertain future

After pressure from members of the security council, France in particular, the UN support mission in Libya is under strategic review and must find a new head of mission.

Libya
Battle for seats on CBL's new, more powerful board

The new agreement over the Central Bank of Libya provides its board of directors with more decision-making power. The various political camps are thus vying to get their people included.

Libya
Construction giant Strabag goes on offensive in Malta to recover €130m

Austrian construction giant Strabag is pushing to have upheld an ICSID ruling condemning the Libyan state for damages over contracts cancelled after the 2011 revolution.

Libya
Next inter-Libyan summit to go ahead in Egypt

The heads of Libya's three main institutions will be meeting in Cairo in the next few days, under the auspices of the Arab League.

Libya
Warsaw eyes Libyan hydrocarbons

Poland’s state-owned Orlen Group-PGNIG is prospecting in Libya and trying to position itself for National Oil Corp contracts.