Nov 19, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
September’s ending of the nine-month long blockade of the country oil sector infrastructure by Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), and the National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) subsequent lifting of force majeure, has seen oil production rebound...
Nov 2, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) was launched last week with virtual talks in preparation for the start of in-person negotiations in Tunis on 9 November. Its objectives are a final political settlement to the current conflict covering issues such as:...
Oct 12, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
While Libya’s armed conflict has currently subsided — with the informal ceasefire around Sirte still holding — the propaganda and disinformation war continue to intensify. The use of disinformation on social media to demonise political opponents, and residents from...
Sep 28, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Three Libyan oil export terminals — Hariga, Brega, and Zueitina — resumed operations last week as part of an agreement, that was not officially sanctioned by the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), between the GNA’s Deputy Prime Minister...
Sep 14, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Despite the ongoing summer power cuts and the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, the ultra-conservative Madkhali Salafist groups have maintained and even expanded their campaign against Sufi believers and their holy sites in those areas of eastern Libya under the control...
Aug 25, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
On 21 August, following weeks of intense international pressure, Prime Minister Fayez Serraj of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the eastern-based House of Representatives (HoR), simultaneously proclaimed...
