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Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, which used to be the Queen Mary library, for meetings or lectures and has your eye started wandering around the room? In doing so your gaze may have rested on the gold plated names etched in the base of the dome. These are the names of eight Greek and Roman philosophers and poets that lived in the ancient world, whose works are still read today. This week the focus is on Plato. A series by Special Collections Information Assistant Anne Marie McHarg.

Before the elections debacle in December last year, it was fairly evident that the prevailing interest among Libya’s political elite was sidelining the will of a plurality of Libyans who sought to choose their representatives in hotly contested polls. Since Muammar Qaddafi’s ouster in 2011, Libya has had at least nine governments and two civil wars but no presidential vote.

On the five-year anniversary of a series of accords signed between Libya and the EU, human rights organizations have come out denouncing the agreements. Amnesty International says that over 82,000 migrants have been returned to Libya to "hellish" conditions because of the deals.&...

Europeans can play a meaningful role in the reform of Libya’s security sector if they adopt a shared strategy and operational principles

Hawa Selim and her 23-year-old son, who is paralyzed, spent more than three months living outside the UN refugee agency's office in Tripoli, desperately asking for help that never came. Then police arrested them and brought them to a detention center. 

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Commanders affiliated with Libyas renegade General Khalifa Haftars forces instructed their subordinates to lay landmines in the vicinity of the capital, Tripoli, during the militias attack on t...

Asylum seekers in Libya speak of inhuman detention conditions after raids outside the UNHCR compound in Tripoli.

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two children from the same family were killed on Tuesday when a landmine exploded near their home in the Ain Zara area south of Tripoli

The order to shutter Al Mabani, a notorious jail set up in Libya to detain migrants bound for Europe, might be seen as progress. But it is also an indication of darker aspects of migrant detention.