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Libya pursued closer ties with North African neighbors and sought to expand its influence in Africa through financial assistance and participation in the African Union. During its civil war, the rebel National Transitional Council called for foreign aid and recognized governments provided some support. After the conflict, frozen Libyan assets abroad were urged to be released to help with democratic transition given Libya's large oil reserves.

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Libya pursued closer ties with North African neighbors and sought to expand its influence in Africa through financial assistance and participation in the African Union. During its civil war, the rebel National Transitional Council called for foreign aid and recognized governments provided some support. After the conflict, frozen Libyan assets abroad were urged to be released to help with democratic transition given Libya's large oil reserves.

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Libya

Libya pursued closer bilateral ties with North African neighbors Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, and greater Africa. It has sought to develop its relations with Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to Libyan involvement in several internal African disputes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Mauritania, Somalia, Central African Republic, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Libya has also sought to expand its influence in Africa through financial assistance, granting aid donations to impoverished neighbors such as Niger and oil subsidies to Zimbabwe, and through participation in the African Union. Libyan rebels needed NATOS military might to bring Muammar Qaddafis rule to the brink of collapse. About $50 billion in cash abroad means they can do without foreign aid to rebuild the country after a six-month conflict. As the rebels hunt Qaddafi and his remaining followers in the capital, world leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel are urging the release of frozen Libyan assets abroad to help in the transition to democracy. Those assets and Africas largest oil reserves set Libya apart from neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, which sought outside financial aid after popular revolts ousted their leaders this year. The NTC has also called on the international community to render assistance to its efforts to dislodge Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the ruler of Libya since 1969, and his loyalists. Officials have asked for medical supplies, money,and weapons, among other forms of foreign aid. During the Libyan civil war, it was rumoured that Egypt had sent Unit 777, a special forces division, to clandestinely aid Libyan revolutionaries on the eastern front. These reports were never confirmed, but established an early narrative that the post-revolutionary government of Egypt was seeking to aid a revolution in neighbouring Libya as part of a North African solidarity effort. Egypt supported the Arab League's readmission of Libya under the NTC in August 2011, officially recognising the NTC on the same day, 22 August, as the pan-Arab organisation, headed by former Egyptian Foreign Minister Naril Elaraby, voted to do so. Turkey's reversal on the international military mission, as well as its decision to recognise the NTC in early July 2011, it gained considerably more influence with the ultimately victorious rebels. It also provided $300 million in aid to the NTC prior to the start of Ramadan, as well several fuel shipments via the Turkish Petroleum International Company. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolu visited Benghazi in late August, just as Tripoli was being taken by antiGaddafi forces. When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan visited Tripoli the following month, he received a rock star welcome from gratified Libyans. The Turkish Air Force also worked with the NTC to airdrop humanitarian aid to Waddan, and the Libyan South near Qatrun in midSeptember 2011, delivering at least 14 tons of food to the areas selected by Libyan and Turkish officials.

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