They’re either Libyans or migrants but all of them have at least one thing in common: they’re black. It’s a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports ...

Libya has always been a dangerous transit point for migrants hoping to reach Europe, but the recent wave of racially driven violence signals a disturbing shift. Black migrants and refugees in ...

And as anti-Gadhafi forces solidify control over Libya, journalists and human rights advocates report attacks specifically aimed at black Libyans and migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. Michel ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries, the chairman of the African Union ...

Libya is home to a large minority of black Libyans, many of whom supported Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader, and some who fought on his side against the rebel uprising. But since Gaddafi’s ...

One of the men was a dark-skinned Libyan from the far south. Another, a 60-year-old named Othman, said he was born in Chad but had lived in Libya for 30 years and had been a Libyan citizen since 1991.

A horrific surge of violence has erupted across Western Libya, specifically targeting Black individuals regardless of their status as migrants, refugees, or even citizens. Between March 12 and 16 ...

political elites across the divide have worked together to carve up Libya's institutions—and their budgets—between themselves, as well as all manner of black-market fiefdoms. Bathily ...

JOHANNESBURG -- South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected secret military training camp Friday, and authorities said they were investigating whether there were ...

A masked doctor leans down into a black plastic body bag ... In a hospital car park in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, the final details of one of its many victims are being carefully checked ...

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Libya has Africa's most abundant hydrocarbon ... The exchange rate went up to 5.56 dinars to the US dollar from 4.48 -- while on the black market it jumped to 7.80 dinars to the US dollar from ...