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Libya

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Cash, tents and a secret vault: Nicolas Sarkozy’s Libya trial

    Former French president awaits verdict in corruption case linked to the late Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    The illicit oil trade that is keeping Libya divided

    Heavily subsidised fuels are being smuggled out of the country and sold abroad, helping sustain its rival political factions

    Montage of oil storage tanks, a Libyan flag and a map showing Libya
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Giorgia Meloni
    Meloni under investigation by Rome prosecutors over release of Libyan warlord

    Italian PM says prosecutors are probing her government’s decision to return Osama Elmasry Njeem to Libya

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    National Archives
    UK government lobbied Libya for arms deal with BAE Systems

    Links between Gaddafi and Blair in 2004 revealed by newly released letter

    Tony Blair meets Muammer Gaddafi in March 2004
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Libya restarts oil production after political crisis

    Resumption following factional power struggle helps allay concerns over potential disruption from Middle East conflict

    Oil storage tanks in Zawiyah, Libya
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Crude hits year low on speculation Libyan output will resume

    Brent drops 5% on global oversupply concerns

    Crude oil storage tanks in Libya
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Interview
    Libya central bank governor flees divided country over fear for his life

    Sadiq al-Kabir the focus of high-stakes power struggle that has shut down most of the country’s oil production

    Sadiq al-Kabir is seated on a black leather couch and gesturing with his hands during an interview. He is wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and patterned tie. Behind him is a window with a view of greenery and a red bus outside.
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Oil
    Oil prices jump on reports of Libyan production shutdown

    Political wrangling sends crude 3% higher

    An oil terminal in Libya
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Borderlands
    How Europe is paying other countries to police its borders

    Under pressure from the far right ahead of this year’s elections, the EU is turning to draconian tactics to curb migration

    A montage of two images - a map of the African and European countries surrounding the Mediterranean, and a pickup truck crammed with people driving through the Sahara
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    Warlord’s iron grip on eastern Libya survives flood outrage

    Khalifa Haftar brooks no dissent and is expected to enjoy reconstruction ‘bonanza’

    People sit among the rubble in Derna, Libya, following a deadly flash flood
  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Libya’s flood disaster was partly man-made

    Western governments should focus on supporting efforts to stabilise the country

    A survivor sits on the rubble of a destroyed building in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on September 18
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘Brothers to the rescue’: Devastated Libyans search for survivors and answers

    A week after Storm Daniel, residents of Derna are still reeling from the destruction

    Fire and rescue brigades search for survivors: authorities have not communicated an official death toll as the scale of the disaster complicates the rescue mission
  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    ExplainerNatural disasters
    Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

    An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘All should resign’: Derna disaster unleashes wave of anger in Libya

    Citizens vent at officials who ignored warnings while the authorities look to absolve themselves of blame

    People walk past damaged houses in Derna, Libya,
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Libya flood victims buried in mass graves as anger builds over failed defences

    At least 5,500 people killed by disaster that devastated eastern city of Derna

    A digger stands next to the grave. The bodies are contained in white coverings
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    More than 5,000 bodies recovered in Libya flood disaster

    Death toll expected to rise after Storm Daniel devastates eastern city

    Men walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by flooding in Derna, eastern Libya
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Libya’s divisions exposed in city laid waste by floods

    Recovery and rebuilding efforts hampered by country’s chaotic and fractured politics

    An overturned car among rubble next to a damaged building following a storm in Derna, Libya on September 12 2023
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Natural disasters
    10,000 missing as floods hit Libya after Storm Daniel

    Large parts of coastal city of Derna swept away after dams burst

    A man in flood-hit Derna
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Middle East & North Africa
    Libya flooding leaves hundreds feared dead

    Storm Daniel crosses Mediterranean to strike north African coast, with reports of dam bursts causing devastation in city of Derna

    Vehicles piled up along a coastal road in Derna, Libya
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Libya government in crisis after Israel says the countries held ‘historic’ talks

    High-level meeting prompts suspension of Tripoli’s foreign minister and unrest in pro-Palestinian nation

    Protesters in Tripoli burn a shirt showing Libyan foreign minister Najla Mangoush and her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Clashes erupt between rival militias in Libya’s capital

    Violence shatters months of calm and closes Tripoli’s only functioning airport

    Smoke rises following clashes between rival armed groups in Tripoli on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    EU immigration
    Tunisia accused of dumping migrants on Libya border

    Hundreds said to be trapped in desert with no food or water while EU tries to stem flow

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    Libyan state oil chief stresses support across divided country

    National Oil Corporation chair outlines plans to increase investment and lift production to 2mn b/d

    Farhat Bengdara, chairman of the National Oil Co of Libya
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Missing uranium ore in Libya raises nuclear security fears

    Militia group later claims to have recovered the barrels of uranium after worries they had been stolen

    The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Terrorism
    US takes custody of man charged with making Lockerbie bomb

    Former Libyan intelligence officer to face court 34 years after attack over Scotland killed 270 people

    The cockpit section of Pan Am 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988
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