The Libyan Presidency Council announced, on Monday 5 April, the creation of a national reconciliation commission. A key step in the roadmap adopted by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in mid-November last year, it seeks to pave the way to (...)
Libya's national unity government composed of 35 ministers led by Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbeibah officially took up the reins on Tuesday from the previous Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Sarraj.
The move came one day after (...)
As Al-Ahram Weekly went to press this week, it was still uncertain whether the National Unity Government proposed by Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul- Hamid Dbeiba would win a vote of confidence in Libya's House of Representatives (HoR), which (...)
Newly designated Libyan Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbeiba promised to submit a proposed cabinet team to the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) for approval as soon as possible this week, so that the new government could get to work on its heavy (...)
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has finally made a breakthrough in the political stalemate that has reigned in the country since 2014.
After five days of talks, participants in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in Geneva chose the (...)
The UN Support Mission for Libya (UNSMIL) had not yet announced how participants in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) had voted on Monday evening on the selection mechanism for the new Libyan executive authority at the time Al-Ahram Weekly (...)
On 27 December a delegation of the Egyptian National Committee on Libya arrived in Tripoli. Delegation members met with officials from the Government of National Accord (GNA) and representatives of key players in western Libyan.
The goal was to (...)
This year was another year of major political, military, and economic ups and downs for Libya, starting with the onset of an eight-month blockade of oil facilities and the initiation of the Berlin Process for a comprehensive solution to the crisis (...)
By Monday, the two committees representing the Libyan parliament in Tobruk and the High Council of State (HCS) in Tripoli will have met for a second time in Morocco, at the end of a consultation meeting of 130 MPs in Tripoli and Tobruk in the (...)
Although the first round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) ended this week without an agreement over a new unified executive authority to oversee the transition to elections next year, the participants did agree on a roadmap that (...)
On Monday, Tunisia's President Kais Saied kicked off the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), bringing together 75 participants representing all segments of Libyan political and social society in a UN sponsored effort to end the years-long (...)
The two sides of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) signed a permanent ceasefire agreement in Geneva last Sunday, spurring hopes of reviving the stalled political process and ending years of civil war. As the international community welcomed (...)
Since early September, diplomatic talks on Libya gained momentum, which encouraged local rivals to return to the negotiating table under the auspices of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which sponsored at least five meetings between 6 (...)
On Monday, the UN relaunched the Berlin Process for a comprehensive settlement to the Libyan crisis, picking up efforts that began at a world summit on 19 January in the German capital. The Berlin track faltered due to developments on the ground in (...)
Many problems confront efforts towards a comprehensive settlement of the Libyan crisis, even though the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced it will restart the “Berlin Process” as soon as possible, and that with Germany it will sponsor a (...)
Last week, members of the Tubruk parliament and the Supreme State Council (SSC) in Tripoli met with a number of politicians in the Moroccan city of Bouznika and in the Swiss city of Montreux, under the auspices of the UN Support Mission in Libya (...)
Popular protests in the Libyan capital Tripoli and cities in western Libya last week were a manifestation of suppressed tensions within the Presidential Council and Government of National Accord (GNA). Quarrels burst into the open after simmering (...)
The US ceasefire plan for the Sirte-Jufra line appears to be gaining diplomatic traction among European powers to whom it is an opportunity to regain the initiative after Turkish influence in the West and Russian influence in the east eclipsed other (...)
The US is seeking a permanent ceasefire in Libya and is pushing towards demilitarising Sirte and Jufra in the centre of the African country, resuming oil production and improving governance to resume talks between the warring parties.
In the past (...)
US-sponsored negotiations to enable Libyan oil facilities to resume operations broke down last weekend according to a statement by the US Embassy in Tripoli on Sunday (12 July). Talks had begun several weeks earlier between the Government of (...)
Since the end of May, the battle lines between the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Sarraj and the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar west of Sirte and Al-Jufra in the centre of the country have (...)
On Monday, the Movement of Libyan Cities and Tribes (MLCT), which includes figures supporting the Libyan National Army (LNA), declared that the tribes have agreed to resume oil production. They also delegated the army leadership to communicate with (...)
East and West Libya remain divided since 2014, and the chasm is growing due to political stalemate and diplomatic initiatives that failed to reach a truce, halt the conflict and bring local forces back to the negotiating table and political dialogue (...)
Forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) are surrounding the city of Sirte in central Libya on the western flank since the beginning of June, after the city became a stronghold for the Libyan National Army (LNA) when it withdrew from areas (...)
The Cairo Declaration announced by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on Saturday triggered a variety of reactions from Libyan forces in the east, west and south. The declaration is a political initiative to revive interest in a political (...)
