The following lists events that happened during
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
in
Libya.
Incumbents
*
Prime Minister:
Shukri Ghanem (until 5 March),
Baghdadi Mahmudi (starting 5 March)
Events
February
* February 8 -
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
and
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
sign the
Tripoli Agreement, proposed by Libya, ending the
Chadian-Sudanese conflict.
* February 17 - At least eleven protesters are killed in riots protesting the
Muhammad cartoons in
Tripoli outside the Italian consulate in
Benghazi
Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...
, Italian consulate set on fire.
May
* May 15 - The
United States State Department
The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...
announces it will re-establish diplomatic ties with Libya and remove it from its list of states that sponsor terrorism.
July
* July 29 -
Somali Premier
Ali Mohammed Ghedi alleges that Libya,
Egypt, and
Iran are supplying the
Islamic Courts Union with weaponry.
2000s in Libya
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