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Freedom Vs Security: A Delicate Balancing Act

The Sousse Massacre has re-prompted the debate on safeguarding freedoms and duty of the state to guarantee security. Rached Ghanouchi called for a national dialogue conference in order to agree a strategy to fight terrorism; but cautioned, “the main guarantee...

/ June 28, 2015

Cautious Hope for an Agreement

On Sunday 28th June, the delegations of the Tripoli GNC and the Tobruk House of Representatives met for the first time face to face at the UN negotiating table in Morocco. Bernardino Leon hand the two parties to the conflict...

/ June 28, 2015

Amnesty instead of Transitional Justice to Boost Economy?

In the midst of the string of strikes, sit in and social unrest Tunisia has been experiencing in the last several weeks, a Tunisian court rejected a decree, passed in 2011 under Mouncef Merzouki, that confiscated the properties and assets...

/ June 10, 2015

Leon’s Political Agreement Draft meets Cautious Hope in Tripoli and Tobruk

A fourth round of Libyan political dialogue took place in Morocco on 8 June under the auspices of UNSMIL. Bernardino Leon presented the National General Congress (GNC, Tripoli) and House of Representatives (HoR, Tobruk) a fourth draft of UNMSIL’s proposed...

/ June 8, 2015

Daech (“Islamic State/ISIS”) Controls Sirte Airport

Last Thursday, Sirte Airport fell under the control of Daech after the withdrawal of the Tripoli government allied forces. Daech took advantage of the security vacuum in Libya, to increase its presence in some cities while the Tripoli and Tobruk...

/ May 30, 2015

Habib Essid’s First 100 Days Balance Sheet

The performance of Habib Essid’s government of its first one hundred days in office was the focus of Tunisian media, political and civil societies. The recent string of protests, strikes and unrest that hit several sectors and regions, especially in...

/ May 18, 2015

UN’s Oil-for-Food Scenario Haunts Tripoli and Tobruk

Last week marks the first anniversary of the launch of Khalifa Hafter’s Operation Dignity from Benghazi. Speaking on the occasion Hafter pledged again his determination to uproot “terrorist groups” from Libya. Critics of Hafter point to his failure to deliver...

/ May 18, 2015

Foreign Policy in Troubled Waters

Tunisian President Baji Caid Essebsi found himself compelled to intervene and correct the statements made by his foreign minister Tayeb Bekouche who spoke of the restoring relations with Damascus and accused Ankara of facilitating the passage of terrorists to Syria....

/ April 6, 2015