Rory O'KeeffeJul 16, 201915 min readThe St Valentine’s Day Charade: Khalifa Haftar, the cause of and main actor in, Libya’s second civilIn April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he...
Rory O'KeeffeJun 27, 201920 min readThe United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other intThe United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...
Rory O'KeeffeMar 30, 201833 min readOpen Arms? Closing borders and refusing to talk is handing Europe to the far-RightThe – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding...
Rory O'KeeffeNov 24, 20173 min readFrance's sanctions plan against Libya (and the plan's manifest problems)France has threatened sanctions against the Libyan ‘government’ after French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the sale of men into...