Libyans began voting in a poll designed to shake off the legacy of Muammar Gaddafi but which risks being hijacked by autonomy demands in the east.
Members of an elite Libyan unit, set up to rein in militia, are accused of kidnapping and severely beating one of the country’s foremost surgeons.
Seven months on from Muammar Gaddafi’s butchering in the ruins of Sirte, the fruits of liberal intervention in Libya are now cruelly clear.
Nicolas Sarkozy has rejected a renewed claim that Muammar Gaddafi agreed to donate up to €50-million to his last presidential campaign.
International monitors say conflicts, including the uprisings in the Arab world, last year forced 3.5-million people to flee within their country.
Stephen Goodson has been on the South African Reserve Bank’s board from 2003. He holds extremist views on Hitler’s Germany and Gaddafi’s Libya.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj was offered £1-million over the alleged UK involvement in his rendition by slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
The United Nations wants to know what SA mercenaries were doing helping Gaddafi during the civil war in Libya, but our government isn’t saying a word.
Rivalries, divided communities and plentiful weapons are convulsing Libya as the interim government struggles to impose its authority.
DNA taken from a coffin found in a mass grave in Libya may match that of South African photographer Anton Hammerl who was killed near Brega last year.
A lawyer from the International Criminal Court says Saif al-Islam, the son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been attacked in detention.
Fresh fighting has erupted in west Libya after two days of deadly clashes near the border with Tunisia but there are no reports of new casualties.
Assets worth more than €1-billion belonging to the late Muammar Gaddafi, his son and his intelligence chief have been seized in Italy in raids.
Damaging new claims have emerged about the funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign and his links with slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
Libyan chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil says he will defend national unity ‘with force’ if necessary after a faction declared autonomy for an eastern region.
The Gambian Supreme Court has ruled it should lift sanctions on Libya and return the country’s assets to the ruling National Transitional Council.
African leaders began talks on insecurity in the Sahel region at the first African Union meeting convened by Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi.
A year after Libya’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, its militias continue to hold influence with corruption, violence and anarchy.
Niger will not extradite al-Saadi Gaddafi even though the son of the slain Libyan leader violated his asylum conditions with "subversive" comments.
Russia has said that the UN Security Council resolution on Syrian violence did not suit Moscow and warned of a ‘scandal’ if it is brought to a vote.
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/ 3 February 2012
A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan.
Television channel e.tv has been fined R35 000 for airing violent footage of the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi without warning viewers.
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/ 1 February 2012
Muammar Gaddafi’s occupation of Tawergha and using it as a base to besiege and shell Misrata in last year’s civil war has left the town isolated.
Zimbabwean state media is reporting that President Robert Mugabe has condemned the continent-wide AU for recognising Libya’s NTC at a recent summit.
Reports say at least four people have been killed in clashes between besieged NTC forces and well-organised pro-Muammar Gaddafi fighters.
Libya says the International Criminal Court has accepted that Muammar Gaddafi’s son will be tried by Libyans, a claim the ICC has denied.
Libyan students protested in Benghazi after angry demonstrators lobbed grenades and stormed the offices of the ruling NTC — then its deputy resigned.
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/ 17 January 2012
African Union chairperson Jean Ping has announced Africa’s economic growth for 2011 has positive, with an average growth of between 5.5% and 6%.
Libya’s National Transitional Council has proposed a draft law for electing an assembly to draft the country’s new constitution.
An envoy from Libya’s new leaders has asked President Zuma for help in rebuilding the country in the wake of the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
A gun fight erupted in central Tripoli, killing four, as a group of former rebels from Libya’s third biggest city, Misrata, clashed with ex-fighters.