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Articles of the author Kamel Abdallah
Reconciliation and the Libyan elections
As diplomatic efforts continue to salvage the Libyan elections scheduled for December, the authorities in Tripoli this week announced the release of Saadi Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Ahmed Ramadan, former Libyan dictator's (...)

07 - 09 - 2021
Libya's alternatives
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) remains unable to agree on a constitutional basis for holding legislative and presidential elections — slated for 24 December, according to the roadmap the forum agreed on in Tunisia in November 2020. The (...)

17 - 08 - 2021
Libya in Italy
A new round of Libyan negotiations on the presidential and parliamentary electoral law which began in Rome on Monday is scheduled to conclude on Thursday. The negotiations started with the participation of a committee made up of the House of (...)

27 - 07 - 2021
Libyan agreement postponed
The UN-sponsored Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) has failed to reach an agreement on the constitutional basis for holding legislative and presidential elections in Libya, despite the five-day extension of the deadline. The UN Support Mission (...)

06 - 07 - 2021
A difficult consensus
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) reconvened at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday to discuss "consensus formulas". These target pending differences on the Constitutional Basis for the general elections scheduled to be held on 24 (...)

29 - 06 - 2021
Back to Berlin on Libya
The first conference, convened in January 2020, aimed to promote a ceasefire in the conflict over Tripoli and forge a roadmap to enable the creation of a new interim executive to manage the country until parliamentary and presidential elections were (...)

15 - 06 - 2021
The road to Libyan elections
The path to national elections in Libya in December is far from as smooth as international stakeholders would like. Among the most crucial hurdles are the 2021 national budget, the constitutional principles that will serve as the basis for the (...)

25 - 05 - 2021
The EU race to Tripoli
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 (...)

06 - 04 - 2021
New Libyan government starts work
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 (...)

16 - 03 - 2021
Libya's government in waiting
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 (...)

10 - 03 - 2021
New Libyan government in the making
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 (...)

16 - 02 - 2021
Breakthrough in Libya
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 (...)

09 - 02 - 2021
Movements on the Libyan executive
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 (...)

19 - 01 - 2021
Cairo and Tripoli reconnect
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 (...)

05 - 01 - 2021
War and peace in Libya
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 (...)

20 - 12 - 2020
Understandings but no guarantees
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 (...)

01 - 12 - 2020
Differences persist
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 (...)

17 - 11 - 2020
Libya roadmap challenges
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 (...)

10 - 11 - 2020
Libya ceasefire breakthrough
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 (...)

27 - 10 - 2020
Libya talks get complex
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 (...)

13 - 10 - 2020
Berlin Process relaunches in Libya
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 (...)

06 - 10 - 2020
Complications in the Libya process
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 (...)

22 - 09 - 2020
Can final Libya negotiations be relaunched?
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 (...)

15 - 09 - 2020
Tripoli rifts emerge
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 (...)

01 - 09 - 2020
Libya ceasefire progress?
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 (...)

18 - 08 - 2020
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