Formerly a settlement of peoples as diverse as the Phoenicians, the Romans and the Turks, Libya was named after the Greek colonists in the second century before the Christian era. Phoenicians and Greeks arrived in the country in the 7th century...
From the 1970s onwards, Libya appeared frequently on international news because of the attitudes of its head of state, Muammar al Gaddafi, accused of supporting terrorism. Muslim country in which several Mediterranean cultures left their mark, Libya has most of its...
Democracy and rights Abbreviated as LBY, Libya has been in a state of war since 2011 with a difficult-to-understand number of actors involved. Many of them are abusing people. The UN is trying to drive a democratic process, but some stable...
