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Libya Libya
Name: Libya
Region: North Africa / Maghreb region
Capital: Tripoli
Official language: Arabic
Area: 1,759,541 km2
Borders
Population: 5,670,688 (2006 census)
Currency: Dinar (LYD)
Internet TLD: .ly | Calling code: 218
Government: Provisional parliamentary republic
- President - Mohamed el-Magariaf
- Prime Minister - Abdurrahim El-Keib
- Legislature - General National Congress
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- Wednesday 27 March 2013
March 27, 2013 (LONDON) - Sudan is the seventh worst country in the world for sexual violence in conflict according to a report by global risk analysis firm, Maplecroft which rated neighbouring South Sudan as an "extreme high risk" (...)
- Wednesday 13 February 2013
February 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of livestock, Fisheries and Pastures Faisal Hassan Ibrahim reported Tuesday that the country’s livestock exports jumped by 96.6% in 2012. FILE - Cows are seen before they are (...)
- Saturday 19 March 2011
March 18, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The African Union (AU) panel tasked with seeking a peaceful solution to the crisis in Libya is set to meet in Mauritania on Saturday as prospects for military airstrikes became all but certain. U.S. (...)
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, has cautioned against Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African diversity and called for the (...)
- Thursday 12 August 2010
August 11, 2010 (WASHINGTON) — A Libyan human right group headed by the son of Muammar Gaddafi has issued a statement last week calling for prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes in Darfur "irrespective of their positions" in what (...)
- Sunday 13 March 2011
March 12, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said that people cannot draw comparisons between the situation in Libya and that of Darfur which lies in Western Sudan. Arab League Secretary General Amr (...)
- Saturday 30 May 2009
May 29, 2009 (SABRATA, Libya) - Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi appealed to the Presidents of Chad and Sudan on Friday to settle their differences and end the current tension between the two neighboring countries. Libyan leader Moamer (...)
- Monday 14 February 2005
El-Bashir
NEW YORK, Feb 12, 2005 (UPI) — Parade magazine’s yearly list of the planet’s 10 worst living dictators has named Sudan’s Omar Bashir as the head of world’s most ignominious class.
Although last year Bashir ranked a mere seventh (...)
- Friday 11 March 2011
March 10, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Friday expressed "deep concern" at the events in Libya as observers raised questions on the body’s slow and reserved response to the crisis in the North (...)
- Tuesday 25 August 2009
August 24, 2009 (TRIPOLI) — The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today said that he would support the independence of South Sudan if its citizens decide so in the 2011 referendum but warned that it will become a "very weak state." Libyan (...)
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