19.01.12 Libya Focus January issue: Table of contents

SPOTLIGHT

• Militias in control as chaos reigns: The NTC has made a series of gestures in response; Fretting about foreign intervention; There is a fear about what the US is planning in Libya

GOVERNANCE

• Draft election law criticised: These weaknesses are partly a consequence of the myriad competing factions; Traditionalism without parties; First tribe past the post; Feeble quota for women; Qadhafi collaborators excluded

POLITICS & SOCIETY

• Outsider wins army appointment: Al-Mangoush is not linked to any militia or political organisation
• Bringing the militias to heel? The police are doing little better than the army in the effort to recruit revolutionaries
• Salafists destroy more shrines: In a bid to deal with the problem the Ministry of Awqaf (Religious Affairs) in Benghazi issued a statement
• French national killed in Tripoli: Colonel Hugues de Samie was found dead in his apartment
• AQIM slips through porous borders: Reports are growing of alcohol and drugs being
  smuggled into the country

ENERGY INDUSTRY

• Oil sector outpaces others: This is all the more remarkable as operations have been restored without significant assistance
• NOC needs to find its place: Subsidiaries and JVs take stock; International participation
• Mixed messages on contract reviews: But the most recent statement by Oil Minister Abdulrahman Ben Yezza is encouraging
• Multiple allegations in corruption report: Companies forced to reduce activity; Oil marketing faults exposed

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

• Holding back on major contracts: The administrative capacity of the new government departments is highly inhibited
• Business news in brief: Jihad tax lifted; Switzerland and Lebanon trade bans lifted.