Libya

'You get used to the gunfire' – filming the Libyan women's football team

· The Guardian

Denounced on TV, they train at secret locations watched by armed guards. We meet the woman from Hastings who made a fascinating film about Libya’s guttsiest football squad ‘Just what our country needs!” rails the imam…

Libya's women's football team banned from major tournament

· The Guardian

Sporting authorities cite Ramadan as reason for withdrawal after team forced to train in secret following threats from radicals Libya's international woman's football team, already under threat from religious…

Libya 2-1 Senegal | Africa Cup of Nations match report

· The Guardian

• Libya 2-1 Senegal Ihaab Boussefi's two goals were not enough to send Libya through to the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations despite a 2-1 win over Senegal on Sunday. Boussefi struck in the fifth and 84th…

Libya v Zambia – as it happened | Paul Doyle

· The Guardian

MBM abandoned due to waterlogged pitch, or something (it was actually technical issues, so sorry about that) Paul will be here from 3.50pm with team news. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from Jonathan Wilson on…

Equatorial Guinea v Libya – as it happened | Rob Bagchi

· The Guardian

Equatorial Guinea, the co-hosts, earned themselves a million dollar bonus by getting the Africa Cup of Nations off to a winning start with a 1-0 victory over Libya. Good evening all: The opening game of the 2012 Africa…

Unity is main goal of Libyan team in Africa Cup of Nations

· The Guardian

Players enter soccer tournament in a spirit of democracy, as host’s dictator, Teodoro Obiang, looks on How Muammar Gaddafi would have loved to be there. Libya's footballers kicked off Africa's biggest football…

Africa Cup of Nations: Libya team a symbol of hope for nation renewed | Jonathan Wilson

· The Guardian

Libya get the Cup of Nations underway on Saturday without their best player but with a team united by adversity Ask around and the consensus is that Libya's best player is the midfielder Tariq al-Taib. He has twice…

Libya: A donkey taunt, the Gaddafis and a fatal footballing rivalry

· The Guardian

With Benghazi liberated, the story of how the Libyan leader and his son Saadi destroyed the Al-Ahly club is finally emerging It's one thing for a football fan to call a player a donkey. But it's another altogether to…

Football: Ivory Coast 2 - 1 Libya

· The Guardian

Drogba 10, Toure 74; Ezwae 44 World Cup qualifiers Ivory Coast secured their place in the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup at the expense of Libya. Chelsea striker Didier Drogba gave the Ivorians a 10th-minute…

Egypt 3 - 0 Libya

· The Guardian

Tottenham striker Mido enjoyed a scoring start to his African Nations Cup campaign as Egypt beat 10-man Libya 3-0 in the opening game. The Spurs man opened the scoring and later missed a penalty as the host nation put…

Libya's explosive sporting cocktail

· The Guardian

In Tripoli, capital of Libya, they tell the joke about the taxi driver with a foreigner in the back of his cab. 'Listen,' whispers the driver. 'Do you want to go to a place where you can get a drink?" 'Yes,' says the…

Italy v Libya match ends in pitch battle

· The Guardian

A pre-season friendly football match between Libya and the Italian Serie A team Perugia degenerated into a gigantic brawl, doing little to mend relations between the two countries and even less for the tarnished…