Libya
Governmental Resources
- Libya
- Central Bank of Libya English
- Constitution of the State of Libya
- Constitution of Libya, 2011, with amendments through 2012. English translation. (via Constitute, Comparative Constitutions Project, Austin, Texas)
13 pages in PDF format - Constitution of Libya, 1969/1992 and Declaration of 1977
Axel Tschentscher, International Constitutional Law, Universität Bern (Switzerland)
- Constitution of Libya, 2011, with amendments through 2012. English translation. (via Constitute, Comparative Constitutions Project, Austin, Texas)
- Embassy of Libya in the United States (Washington, DC)
- State of Libya Arabic
--See also: Libya News Agency below
- United States
- Census Bureau: US-Libya Trade Balance, 1992–
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Washington, DC)
World Factbook: Libya (2024) - Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
U.S. Commercial Service (Washington, DC)
Search website for "Libya" to find relevant articles.
- Department of State
- Embassy of the United States in Libya, Tripoli
- Libya Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
--Search by country for years: 1996-1999 -and- 1999-2015 - Libya Country Report on International Religious Freedom: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
--Search by country for years: 2001-2015
--Plus: 1999 | 2000
- Energy Information Administration: Country Analysis Brief on Libya
- Library of Congress, Federal Research Division (Washington, DC)
NGO/IGO Resources
- African Development Bank Group (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Libya
AFDB project portfolio, regional map, development policy information, key facts, key documents, and latest news.
- Amnesty International on Libya (New York, NY)Recent human rights news and country analysis.
- Federation of American Scientists (Washington, DC)
Libya Special Weapons (2006) - Small Arms Survey: Security Assessment in North Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
- "...a multi-year project of the Small Arms Survey to support those engaged in building a more secure environment in North Africa and the Sahel-Sahara region (especially Libya and Mali)."
- "Perceptions, Vulnerabilities, and Prevention: Violent Extremism Threat Assessment in Selected Regions of the Southern Libyan Borderlands and North-Western Nigeria." (November 2022)
- "Who's Fighting Whom in Tripoli: How the 2019 Civil War is Transforming Libya's Military Landscape." (August 2019)
- All SAS Publications on "Libya"
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Libya (Tripoli, Libya)
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: ReliefWeb on Libya, 2022-2023 (Geneva, Switzerland)
--See especially: ReliefWeb Response on Library (September 2023) - United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) (New York, NY)
Middle East & North Africa
Search website for "Libya" to find relevant articles.
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Rome, Italy)
- FAO profile on Libya (2018)
- Aquastat: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2006)
Water resources and their significance in agriculture and rural development.
- FAO profile on Libya (2018)
General Resources
- Chatham House: "Libya's War Economy: Predation, Profiteering, and State Weakness," April 12, 2018. By Tim Eaton. (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK) 38 pages in PDF format
- The Green Book (Kitab al-akhdar)
By Muammar al-Qaddafi
Public Establishment for Publishing, Advertising and Distribution (Tripoli, Libya)
--via The Internet Archive, USA.
- International Crisis Group on Libya (Brussels, Belgium; Washington, DC)
- Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies: "Non-State Politics in Post-Qadhafi Libya." (2013) By René Lemarchand.. Working paper in African studies; no. 01-2013. 11 pages in PDF format
- Languages of Libya
From Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 20th edition.
SIL International (Dallas, TX)
- Lepcis Magna: The Roman Empire in Africa
Dr. Hafed Walda, Kings College London - Leptis Magna
Tore Kjeilen, Looklex Libya (Oslo, Norway) - Sadeq Institute: a research think-tank on public policy. (Tripoli, Libya)
- The Silphium Gatherer: a blog of Libyan arts, language, literature, and scholarship. (Dr. Adam Benkato, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Society for Libyan Studies (The British Academy, London, UK) Founded in 1969
- Temehu.com
Temehu Tourism Services (Tripoli, Libya)
Provides information about museums in Libya. - University of Benghazi (Benghazi, Libya)
Online News
- Afrik.com sur La Libye, 2023(Paris, France)
- Al Arabiya News Channel: Libya, 2023 (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
--Search: English front page -or- Arabic version
- Al Jazeera English on Libya (2023) (Doha, Qatar)
- Al Jazeera Opinion 2018-2019:
--Youssef Cherif: "How Far Can Haftar Get With His Tripoli Offensive?" April 8, 2019
--Guma al-Gamaty: "How Can Libya be Stabilised?" August 31, 2018 - "Orphans of Sahara" (January 2014): three-part Special Series on the Tuareg rebellions in the Sahara (Libya, Mali, Niger)
- Al Jazeera Opinion 2011:
--Nalia Abdurrahman: "Libya: Making Something Out of Nothing,"
(April 7)
--Mahmood Mamdani: "What does Gaddafi's fall mean for Africa," (Aug 30) -and- "Libya after the NATO invasion," (April 9)
--Larbi Sadiki: "Keeping Libyas promise after Gaddafi's death" (Oct 20) -and- "Libya's postponed democracy," (April 19)
- Al Jazeera Opinion 2018-2019:
- AllAfrica.Com News on Libya (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
Current news summaries on Libya in English or French from regional news services, the Pan African News Agency (PANA), and other sources. Warning: access to articles more than 30 days old requires a subscription.
- BBC News on Libya (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
- BBC Country Profile on Libya (2023)
- "Libya crisis: UN warns attacks on cilvilians may amount to war crimes," April 9, 2019 ...plus related news
- "Libya crisis: Rival governments commit to ceasefire," July 25, 2017
- BBC News on "Libya Crisis" (2012)
- The Guardian. (Online): Libya, 2023 (London)
- Jadaliyya on Libya 2023 (Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC)Commentary and analysis in English and in Arabic: "Jadaliyya is an independent Ezine produced by ASI, a network of writers associated with the Arab Studies Journal."
- Libya News Agency (Tripoli)
Official news site --in English-- from the Libyan government.
- Libya Our Home (2011) (Ibrahim Ighneiwa)
This site offers news headlines, briefs, and commentaries in English (and links to Arabic news) from a wide variety of sources; with an archive of briefs and opinions since 1997.
- RFI--Radio France International sur la Libye, 2023 (Paris)