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Libya mired in chaos 10 years after Arab Spring
A decade on, it is clear that the so-called Arab Spring revolts in Libya brought carnage rather than the longed-for freedom and progress, a fate rivalled only...
Since the 2011 Nato-backed uprising that toppled the veteran dictator, Libya has been riven by conflict, with multiple militias filling the power vacuum and civilian authorities struggling to impose their authority.
Libya has been torn between rival administrations and a myriad of militias since the Nato-backed overthrow and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Human Rights Watch this week raised the alarm over the fate of Tawergha, a town in northeast Libya that also sided with former dictator Muammar Gaddafi during the revolt.
Thursday’s development came just over a week after Sarkozy, 63, was told he was being formally treated as a suspect in the election campaign investigation.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who came under fire for giving Gaddafi a red-carpet reception in Paris in late 2007, said his problems began in March 2011 after he hosted Libyan rebels.
It is the second major investigation for Sarkozy, who also faced charges of illicit campaign spending overruns during his failed re-election bid in 2012.
Neither Nicolas Sarkozy nor his lawyers have commented publicly about the latest development in an inquiry that began five years ago.
South African authorities have not confirmed the attack on the man who invested more than $1 billion of Libyan oil money here.
The toll was one of the highest from a single attack since Libya slid into turmoil after the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Olusegun Obasanjo says if African leaders were more decisive there could have been an African solution to the leadership crisis Libya.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has left the town of Zintan where he had been held since 2011 after being freed by an armed group, according to one of his lawyers.
The Mail & Guardian is reporting that Zuma was in Gaddafi’s pocket & received funding from him.
Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people.
Saif al-Islam & 8 former govt officials were sentenced for war crimes committed during the 2011 revolution.
Militants claiming ties with Islamic State have taken responsibility for the attack.
Lawmakers gathered in a heavily guarded hotel in the eastern city of Tobruk after three weeks of fighting.
Without assistance the North African oil producer could become a failed state.
Officials say it was unclear what caused the explosion, which set off a fire.