Italian Libya Italian Libya Italian Libya (; , ) was a colony of the Kingdom of Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya. Italian Libya was formed from the Italian colonies of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania that were taken by the Kingdom of Italy from the Ottoman Empire in 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912. The unified colony was established in 1934 by governor Italo Balbo, with Tripoli as the capital. The territory of Italian Libya was also called Italian North Africa ("Africa Settentrionale Italiana", or ASI), both before and after its unification. Since 1923, indigenous
Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa in the 2002 presidential election, and afterwards MIRIA President Mamadou Lamine Traoré was named Minister of National Education. MIRIA's Second National Conference, at which Traoré reiterated the party's support for Touré, opened on December 16, 2006. The party participated in the Alliance for Democracy and Progress, which backed Touré for re-election in the 2007 presidential election. Traoré died in July 2007. In the 1 July and 22 July 2007 parliamentary election, the party won two out of 160 seats. Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa The Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa () is