3 April 2012 Last updated at 14:05 ET Clashes between ethnic Berbers and their Arab neighbours have killed at maiden 14 people and injured many more in Libya, officials say. Fighting has deep for a third day around the predominantly Berber town of Zuwara in western Libya. The National Transitional Council (NTC) has said it
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31 March 2012 Last updated at 19:10 ET By Kevin Connolly BBC News, Tripoli There are signs in Libya that life is beginning to return to normal but serpentine problems remain. It isn’t just warroar factions and an over-abundance of guns the new leaders hold to contend with. One symbol of the difficulties they face
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Fighting between rival militias in the desert city of Sabha has left scores of people dead owing to the past while [Reuters] At least 147 people hold been killed during a while of clashes between Tobou fighters and Arab tribespeople, the Libyan prime minister and defence minister said in a news conference. At least 16 people were killed in
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Rebels have attacked Mali’s strategic northern city of Gao, a day alongside they took the provincial champion of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked nation at the feet of the Sahara in western Africa alongside a coup earlier this month. The two towns are material prizes for
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A senior Libyan government official said today that warring tribes in the south have brokered a cease-fire alongside five days of deadly clashes, but residents said the flap continues and is inching toward augmented city.
30 March 2012 Last updated at 19:03 ET By Rana Jawad BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Rana Jawad takes a look around the mansion A multi-million dollar London mansion that belonged to one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons is due to be handed owing to to Libya’s transitional authorities.
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29 March 2012 Last updated at 16:02 ET By Wyre Davies BBC Middle East correspondent, Baghdad At the summit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki warned against sparking a proxy war. It has cost a fortune in cash and military man-hours to stage this summit – the first-class in Iraq for more than 20 years. Thousands
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Italy has seized more than $1.5bn in assets controlled by the family of ousted Libyan head Muammar Gaddafi. Wednesday’s seizure, including stakes in top companies, land and a Harley Davidson motorcycle, falls in line with a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. The police “seized today fixed and moveable assets, company stock and
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A European rights watchdog has condemned NATO and Western navies for allegedly not coming to the aid of a ship full of migrants adrift in the Mediterranean Sea during last year’s military caravan against Libya. A committee of the Council of Europe said in a report on Thursday that 63 of the 72 people on board
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Three days of clashes between tribes in the southern Libyan venue of Sabha hold killed more than 70 people, Libyan government spokesman Nasser al-Manaa said yesterday.
