Oct 30 Michel Cousins

New SMS voter registration system planned

By Ajnadin Mustafa.Tripoli, 30 October 2015:The Libyan Higher National Elections Commission (HNEC) says it has successfully tested SmartElect, an open...

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Oct 15 Michel Cousins

CDA returns to Beida; the capital still an issue

By Saber Ayyub.The old Libyan Parliament building in Beida, now home to the CDATripoli, 15 October 2015:The Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA) is...

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Ghadames turns out not to be the final lap for the CDA
Oct 12 Nigel Ash

Ghadames turns out not to be the final lap for the CDA

By Libya Herald reporters. Tunis, 12 October 2015:It appears that the Constitutional Drafting Assembly is not going to hit its 20 October deadline to...

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Cyrenaica breakaway threat if new constitution not federal
Sep 30 Nigel Ash

Cyrenaica breakaway threat if new constitution not federal

By Ajnadin Mustafa.Tripoli, 30 September 2015:A Benghazi-based federalist group has threatened to boycott the referendum on the new constitution unles...

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CDA arrives for its meeting in Ghadames
Sep 14 Nigel Ash

CDA arrives for its meeting in Ghadames

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 14 September 2015:Members of the Constitutional Drafting Assembly arrived in Ghadames today on what is supposed to...

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Sep 12 Michel Cousins

Child rights must be safeguarded in new constitution says UNICEF

By Libya Herald staff.Tunis, 12 September 2015:In a meeting in Tunis with members of Libya’s Constitutional Drafting Assembly, UNICEF has called on it...

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Draft Constitution to be ready by 20 October: Tarhouni
Sep 6 Michel Cousins

Draft Constitution to be ready by 20 October: Tarhouni

By Libya Herald staff.Tunis, 6 September 2015:Libya’s draft constitution will be finalised and published before 20 October, Ali Tarhouni, the presiden...

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Sep 3 Michel Cousins

Constitutional Assembly says final work will be in Ghadames

By Libya Herald reporter.Tripoli, 3 September 2015:The Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA) has confirmed that it will move from Beida to Ghadames f...

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Aug 21 Nigel Ash

HoR pressed over its future

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 21 August 2015:The House of Representatives is coming under pressure from some civil society organisations to  give...

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Aug 20 Michel Cousins

Tebus and Tuareg members walk out of Constitution Drafting Assembly

By Mustafa Khalifa,Tripoli, 20 August 2015:In what is currently a rare act of collaboration, Tebus and Tuaregs have agreed to quit the Constitutional...

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