“Sudanese traffickers call me and we agree on a place to receive the passengers, which is also where we wrap up the buying and selling process,” said M.F. “Then I sell the migrants to other people who then sell them again at a point close to the coast. This process continues until the migrants reach […]

Former Minister of Interior from 2001 – 20123 and current Ambassador to Bahrain, Fawzi Abdulal says the growing influence of al-Qaeda and Jihadist Islamic currents in Libya is undeniable. He highlights that the recent aductions of Tunisian diplomats and the Ambassador to Jordan could only have been orchestrated by highly organized terrorist groups. Former Minister […]

Every day Naeemah worriedly says goodbye to her son Muhammad al-Qabaili, who goes to school in fear. Muhammad attends al-Somood (resistance) school in al-Zwaitina city, 140 kilometers northwest of Benghazi. The dilapidated school building, as Naeemah has heard many residents of this city speculate, will not hold up until the end of the academic year. […]

In the second part of Correspondents’ interview with al-Saddik al-Sour, head investigator for Libya’s prosecutor general, he spoke about ongoing investigations related to the president of the General National Congress as well as maintaining an element of surprise in the upcoming trials of Mummar Gadaffi’s sons Saif al-Islam and al-Saadi. Did the office of the […]

The list of unresolved cases sitting in the Attorney General’s office is growing alarmingly long with some cases going back many years. And Attorney General Abdulqader Radwan’s recent release of three armed men accused of high-jacking the Morning Glory oil tanker—before even standing trial—has brought on widespread criticism of Libya’s judicial system. The list of […]

Muhammad Mukhtar Mami was hoping to persuade his mother’s uncles to give his mother her share of her grandfather’s land—worth millions of dinars—in the Sayeda Zeinab area, 40 kilometers west of Tripoli. Muhammad Mukhtar Mami was hoping to persuade his mother’s uncles to give his mother her share of her grandfather’s land—worth millions of dinars—in […]

It was two o’clock in the morning when 28-year-old A.S. finally reached his home in Fuhwaihat, west of Benghazi, out of breath and with rattled nerves. He managed to get away from a car that had been chasing him and whose passengers had been shooting at him. It was not the first time A.S. has […]

Twenty-four year-old Mohammad Ziyab is one of 200,000 Syrian refugees in Libya according to UNCHR estimates. Most of them enter the country without visas and are treated as illegal migrants, detained and handed over to competent bodies only to be deported again.  Ziyab’s account of reaching Libya traces a long and tragic journey that has […]

Caricatures or perceived caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed have always proven incendiary— leading to outrage, protests, some of which turn deadly, to the issuance of fatwas.  The case is no different in Libya, where Ali Tekbali and Fathi Saqr of the Libyan National Party (LNP) were accused of blasphemy and abuse of Islam back in […]

Bazyma Oasis, also known as the Healing Oasis, lies in southeastern Libya, in the heart of the desert. In its midst is a lake and a mountain covered with palm trees often called the Palm Mountain. The oasis has long attracted tourists but its residents have also experienced a turbulent history, with two main periods […]