Sticky questions for lorry drivers
Jun 1 Nigel Ash

Sticky questions for lorry drivers

By Ashraf Abdul WahabThe lorries with the suspect sugarTripoli, 1 June 2013:Four large trucks laden with hundreds of sacks of sugar, thought to be unf...

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Zliten English teachers learn new classroom approach
Feb 2 thomwestcott

Zliten English teachers learn new classroom approach

By Tom Westcott.Tripoli, 2 February 2013:Nearly a hundred Zliten teachers have learnt new English language teaching skills on a course run by a volunt...

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Dec 29 tomlittle

Twenty Somalis killed in accident on Khoms-Zliten road

Tripoli, 29 December 2012:Twenty Somali migrants were killed early this morning and another 55 injured as they were being smuggled from Ajdabiya into...

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Mahmoud Jibril calls for dialogue with radical Islamists
Sep 26 George Grant

Mahmoud Jibril calls for dialogue with radical Islamists

By George Grant.Tripoli, 26 September:Mahmoud Jibril has said that Libya’s transition to democracy cannot succeed without an all-embracing dialogue th...

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Saudis send medical aid to Zliten
Sep 9 Michel Cousins

Saudis send medical aid to Zliten

Tripoli, 9 September:Saudi Arabia has sent medical supplies to Zliten. The shipment arrived at Tripoli airport on Friday accompanied by a delegation f...

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Salafists target historic madrassa in central Tripoli
Aug 29 George Grant

Salafists target historic madrassa in central Tripoli

Tripoli, 29 August:Salafists have destroyed almost 30 graves at an historic madrassa in central Tripoli, in the latest spate of religiously-motivated...

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Aug 28 George Grant

Interior Minister withdraws resignation

Tripoli, 28 August:The minister said he withdrew his resignation after it became clear it would "further complicate security".Interior Minister Fawzi...

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The Zliten clashes and Shrine destruction
Aug 26 Michel Cousins

The Zliten clashes and Shrine destruction

By Umar Khan. Tripoli, 26 August: The tanks at the checkpoints set up right after Tripoli were enough to give away that something was wrong — as ind...

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Another Sufi mosque attacked
Aug 25 Michel Cousins

Another Sufi mosque attacked

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 25 August:Another mosque has been vandalised by Salafists. The Sidi Sha’ab Mosque opposite the Mahari Radisson Blu hotel over...

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Massive damage to major sufi shrine follows fatal Zliten clashes
Aug 24 Michel Cousins

Massive damage to major sufi shrine follows fatal Zliten clashes

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 24 August:One of Libya’s most important Sufi shrines, that of the Sidi Abdul-Salam Al-Asmar Al-Fituri in Zliten, has been mas...

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