Oil production at several Libyan oilfields was halted on Tuesday after the rival government in the east announced on Monday a stop to all oil production and exports from OPEC’s African producer.

Libya’s internationally-unrecognised eastern-based government is shutting down oilfields in response to “attacks on the leadership and employees of the Central Bank of Libya”, its prime ...

Libya has had the full attention of the oil markets all week, with the Haftar clan of the east blocking oil production to gain leverage over a battle to control the Central Bank, which controls ...

BENGHAZI (Reuters) -Oilfields in eastern Libya that account for almost all the country's production will be closed and production and exports halted, the eastern-based administration said on ...

The United Nations Libya mission said late on Thursday it was concerned about reports of forces mobilizing in Tripoli and threats of force to resolve a crisis over control of the central bank.

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A British ‘danger tourist’ who travels to the world’s most dangerous countries spent a month in Libya and was held for seven hours at gunpoint at an army checkpoint. Daniel Pinto ...

The news out of Libya that tends to grab international attention often involves stark tragedy and disaster. If it’s not the harrowing civil war that has convulsed the oil-rich North Africa ...

Much of the focus in the oil market has been on the Middle East for months — but on Monday, attention was turning to North Africa, with reports that Libya’s eastern government had halted crude ...

Libya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of a militia leader and one of his aides pending an investigation into the killing of one of the country’s most notorious human traffickers ...

(Reuters) - Libya's latest oil shutdown has pushed up global energy prices. This explains the situation. HOW DID WE GET HERE? Since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi and ...

NOC subsidiary Waha Oil Company, however, said it planned to gradually reduce output and warned of a complete halt to Libya's production, citing unspecified "protests and pressures". Another ...