Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive.
Two Swiss businessmen left the shelter of their country’s embassy in Tripoli on Monday after Libyan police had surrounded the building.
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/ 22 February 2010
Libyan police surrounded the Swiss embassy in Tripoli on Monday after issuing a deadline for Switzerland to hand over two nationals.
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/ 12 November 2009
Two Swiss businessmen prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year will be tried for tax evasion and visa irregularities, Libya said on Thursday.
Hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to authorities in Libya after releasing all the passengers on Wednesday, Libya’s aviation authority said.
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane that was forced to land in Libya released all passengers on Wednesday, a Libyan aviation authority official said.
Libya’s Parliament passed a -billion budget for 2008 aimed at giving Libyans a direct share in oil wealth after leader Moammar Gadaffi said economic development was too slow, state media reported on Tuesday. Many Libyans say they are still waiting to benefit from soaring oil revenues and rising foreign investment.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi urged a sweeping reform of government on Sunday, saying most of the Cabinet system should be dismantled as it had failed to manage the North Africa’s country’s windfall oil earnings. Gadaffi said that big projects were behind schedule and so ordinary people should themselves devise a new way of sharing out oil revenues.
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/ 21 January 2008
Libya will make no exceptions in its drive to expel illegal immigrants and any recruitment of foreign labour in future must be done through legal channels, an official said on Sunday. The oil-rich North African country said on Wednesday it had started deporting illegal immigrants, a community of up to two million, mostly men from poor African states.
Libya lifted death sentences on Tuesday against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV, paving the way for them to be freed after eight years in jail. The ruling, following a payment of -million each to 460 HIV victims’ families, fell short of freeing the medics.