2008 in Libya
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Incumbents
- President: Muammar al-Gaddafi
- Prime Minister: Baghdadi Mahmudi
Events
- April - Russia cancels $4.5 billion worth of Libya's foreign debt as part of a larger set of business deals including railways, weaponry, and oil.[1]
- August 26 - A Sun Air flight with 95 passengers is hijacked after taking off from Darfur and flown to the Kufra airbase in Libya.[2] The hijackers released the passengers a day later and the motives for the hijacking were personal and non-political, focused on being granted asylum in France or Libya.[3][4]
- August 30 - Italy signed a $5 billion deal for infrastructure investments in Libya, coupled with an apology for damage done to Libya from Italian colonization of the country.[5]
- November 21 - The U.S. appoints its first ambassador to Libya in 36 years, after Libya paid compensation to Pan Am Flight 103 victims' families.[6]
