Mar 11 Michel Cousins

Salafist attempt to destroy Zliten shrine sparks country-wide anger

Tripoli, March 11: The attempt by Salafists on Friday to attack and destroy one of Libya’s most important Sufi shrines, in Zliten, has angered Libyans...

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Mar 10 Michel Cousins

UK court hands Saadi's London house to Libyan government

Tripoli, 10 March: The High Court in London on Friday ordered that the home of Saadi Qaddafi be handed over to the Libyan government. The judge said t...

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Mar 3 Michel Cousins

Canadian firm sued over links with Qaddafi family; Canadian ambassador's hudband drawn into the spreading scandal

Quebec City-based law firm Siskinds, Desmeules said on Friday that it was suing Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin for $250 million on behalf of clients over t...

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Mar 3 Michel Cousins

First move in UK to seize Qaddafi assets

by Nick Mathiason and Jack Serle,  Bureau of Investigative Journalism, London.The Qaddafis spent four decades plundering Libya amassing private jets,...

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Feb 27 Michel Cousins

"Don't go to Libya" Niger tells its citizens

The Niger government has warned it citizens not to travel to Libya.  It said on Sunday that because of rising tensions they might be targeted by Libya...

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Feb 24 Nigel Ash

US keeps emergency sanction powers another year

Washington is maintaining for a further year, the emergency power to impose sanctions on Libya, because of the threat to US interests from the Qaddafi...

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Feb 19 Nigel Ash

Editorial: Are they looking at the same Libya?

There has been something odd about much of the extensive coverage that the world’s media gave the first anniversary of the start of the Libyan uprisin...

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US imposes sanctions on Saadi supporter
Feb 15 Michel Cousins

US imposes sanctions on Saadi supporter

The US has imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Libyan man accused of supporting Saadi Qaddafi who last week boasted from his exile in Niger that he was...

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Feb 14 Michel Cousins

Clashes in Kufra continue on Tuesday

Heavy fighting continued in Kufra on Tuesday between members of the Tebu ethnic group and the Zway tribe despite a report from Libyan security sources...

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Fighting in Tripoli over Saadi's beach house
Feb 2 Michel Cousins

Fighting in Tripoli over Saadi's beach house

Forces from the Misrata and Zintan brigade fought an intensive machine gun battle in Tripoli on Wednesday. Initially reports said the fighting had sta...

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