20120117 AFP Africa saw good economic results in 2011 with average growth of between 5.5 percent and 6.0 percent, African Union (AU) Commission chairman Jean Ping said on a visit to Libya on Monday.
20120116 AFP Rival Libyan militias clashed on Sunday south of Tripoli, sources told AFP, raising fresh security concerns with the war-torn North African country still emerging from a bloody conflict.
20120111 AFP Libya has received roughly $20 billion in assets that were held overseas by Moamer Kadhafi's regime and frozen during the conflict that ousted him, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
2012017 AFP Libya must offer its still-armed revolutionary fighters a future beyond the gun, the country's former interim prime minister said Thursday, warning that failure could spell destabilizing violence.
20120105 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya risks sliding into civil war unless it brings under control the rival militias which filled the vacuum left by Muammar Gaddafi's downfall, the head of the interim administration said after an outbreak of violence in the capital.
20120105 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Tuesday named Yousef al-Manqoush, a retired general from the anti-Gaddafi bastion of Misrata, as head of the armed forces in the first significant move to build a new Libyan military.
20120104 AFP A former colonel in Moamer Kadhafi's military has been appointed as the new chief of staff of the Libyan army, two members of the country's ruling National Transitional Council told AFP on Tuesday.
20120103 AFP Ten percent of the seats in a proposed Libyan constituent assembly will be reserved for women, a draft electoral law published on Monday said, triggering harsh reaction from a human rights watchdog.
20120101 Reuters (Reuters) - A powerful Libyan militia leader warned Egypt Saturday he would use force to close its embassy and shut the border if the military rulers failed to cut off a Gaddafi-era state television station that has broadcast footage of his old speeches.
20111231 AFP Al-Qaeda has sent militants to Libya in a bid to recruit a fighting force after the fall of Moamer Kadhafi's regime, but the group has yet to gain a strong foothold there, US officials said Friday.
20111227 AFP Libya's former rebels, who battled the forces of dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi, are demanding greater representation in the National Transitional Council, a commander from Misrata said on Monday.
20111226 Reuters (Reuters) - Libya will include thousands of former rebels who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in its armed forces from January, the defense minister said on Sunday, testing the government's ability to get rebel leaders to cede command of their fighters.
20111226 AFP Libya's transitional government said on Sunday that it will next month begin registering fighters who helped to topple Moamer Kadhafi, hoping to integrate them within the security services.
20111225 AFP The surviving children of Libya's dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi are determined to destabilise the country, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday.
20111224 Reuters (Reuters) - U.N. experts are urging Libya to get rid of a large cache of "yellowcake" uranium because the warehouse where it is being kept is neither safe nor secure enough for long-term storage, the U.N. envoy to Libya said on Thursday.
20111220 Press TV Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has asked for a thorough investigation into the deaths of civilians during NATO's military intervention in Libya earlier this year.
20111219 Reuters (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank and a subsidiary on Friday, clearing the way for tens of billions of dollars they hold overseas to be unfrozen to ease an acute cash crisis.
20111219 Press TV Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ashour Bin Khayal has said his country will not allow the Israeli regime to open an embassy in the capital Tripoli.
