Egypt & North Africa

King Mohammed VI has called for a new wave of reforms to shift the economy toward private-sector leadership and high-value manufacturing.

The battle for Sirte in 2011 was the last major fight of Libya's revolution. It ended with Muammar Gadhafi's death, and left a city in ruins and a country without a plan.

In June 2011 France acknowledged airdropping weapons to rebels in Libya's western mountains, raising questions about the limits of the UN mandate.

Muammar Gadhafi was captured alive near Sirte on 20 October 2011 and died within hours. How he died became the subject of competing accounts.

Western media called him a madman; others remembered an anti-colonial strongman. The way the world described Gadhafi's fall said as much about the observers as about Libya.