2023 in Libya

Events in Libya in 2023.

Incumbents

 * President: Mohamed al-Menfi
 * Prime Minister: Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh

Events

 * 15 February – Eleven people are killed and 73 others are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Libyan coast.
 * 19 February – The African Union announces the organization of a peace conference to address the instability in Libya.
 * 12 March – Thirty people are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants from Libya capsizes while crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
 * 16 March – The Libyan National Army says that it has found about two and a half tonnes of uranium ore contained in ten drums, near the border with Chad, that was reported missing by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
 * 25 April – April 2023 Libya migrant boat disasters
 * 11 July – Faraj Bumatari, a former finance minister, is reportedly kidnapped by the militia RADA after arriving at Mitiga airport.
 * 13 July – Production at Libya's El Feel, El Sharara and Plant 108 oilfields is down in a protest against the abduction of a former finance minister, Faraj Bumatari.
 * 16 July – Two out of three oilfields shut in protest over the arrest of a former finance minister, Faraj Bumatari, resume operations after former finance minister was released on Saturday afternoon. Plant 108 remain closed. The oilfields closure had cost the country the production of 340,000 barrels, said Libya’s Oil Minister Mohamed Aoun.
 * 16 August – The death toll from fighting in Tripoli between the 444 brigade and the Special Deterrence Force increases to 55 people, with 146 more injured. The fight ended yesterday after the release of a commander.
 * 20 August – Libya’s central bank announces its reunification after being split for nearly a decade due to the country’s long-running civil war that has resulted two rival administrations, in the east and the west.
 * 27 August – Many took to the streets in the country's western region to condemn any normalization with Israel after news spread that Foreign Minister Najla El Mangoush met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Italy last week. Protesters set fire to residence of Libyan Prime Minister Dbeibeh in Tripoli. Najla later resigned.
 * 28 August – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh dismisses Foreign Minister Najla El Mangoush after she meets her Israeli counterpart last week in Rome, Italy.
 * 10-11 September – Storm Daniel strikes eastern Libya, killing 200 people. 2,000 are feared drowned, mostly in Derna. The death toll from the floods caused by Storm Daniel in northeastern Libya increased to 5,200 people, with thousands more missing. The death toll later increases to 11,000 plus.
 * 16 December – December 2023 Libya migrant boat disaster: At least 61 migrants drown when their ship sinks off the coast of Libya after leaving Zuwarah.