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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" (...)
- Tuesday 22 February 2011
February 21, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations called on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo to investigate what he described as genocide and crimes against (...)
- Monday 14 May 2012
May 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has received a "large" transfer of cash from unspecified source which would soon cause a 50% jump in the value of the local currency against the U.S. dollar, officials in Khartoum said. A Sudanese man (...)
- Sunday 20 March 2011
March 19, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The African Union (AU) on Saturday criticized the launching of military operations by U.S. and European countries on Libya to enforce a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution adopted this week. (...)
- 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. (...)
- Monday 21 February 2011
February 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will not run for re-election in 2015, a senior official in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) said on Sunday. FILE - Sudan’s President Omer Hassan (...)
- 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 (...)
- Tuesday 21 June 2011
June 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan Foreign Minister Ali Karti has reiterated accusations that armed groups from his country’s western region of Darfur are fighting alongside the beleaguered regime of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi. (...)
- Sunday 26 July 2009
By Luk Kuth Dak
July 25, 2009 — You better believe, It is not an allegation that some African heads of states have been ‘ bullied’ by the Libyan tyrant Muammar al-Gaddafi, to pass the resolution of no co-operation with the International (...)
- Tuesday 24 February 2004
By Afaf el-Gueblaoui
TRIPOLI, Feb 24 (AFP) — Libya is to host a special summit of the African Union this week which caps efforts by Colonel Moamer Kadhafi to turn his policy sights on the world’s poorest continent after his estrangement (...)
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At the Mercy of the Sky, South Sudanese professionals 2013-05-23 08:02:35 By Suzanne Jambo May 22, 2013 - "I have nothing to hide and I walk away with my head high. There was absolutely no board meeting to discuss my issue. The reason given were unilateral spending (...)
National unity: a project for each and every South Sudanese 2013-05-21 14:23:01 By Jacob K. Lupai May 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old (...)
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