[8] From that point, Gaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years until the Libyan Civil War which led to his death and the ousting of his government.Egypt won independence after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

[12]Nasser pursued a non-aligned policy during the Cold War and accepted aid from the USSR, notably with the Aswan High Dam project.

However, after the Yom Kippur War of 1973 Egypt adopted a pro-western stance in exchange for the return of Sinai with its oil fields, and for massive injections of aid.

[14] Gaddafi provided valuable assistance to emerging post-colonial African nations, but also supported terrorist attacks on western countries and Israel.

[15] Isolated and vulnerable after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by US forces in 2003, Gaddafi executed a volte-face, renouncing support of terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction.

[3] After Gaddafi seized power in 1969, he quickly began to use oil revenue to build up the Libyan armed forces, purchasing Mirage III jets and other equipment from France.

Many of the fighters were quietly transferred to Egypt where Egyptian pilots were training in preparation for a fresh strike against Israel to recover territory lost in the 1967 Six-Day War.

[17] In subsequent negotiations to reach a lasting agreement with Israel and to recover the Sinai, Egypt under Sadat moved decisively towards the western side in the Cold War, a policy change that was seen as a betrayal by many Arab states including Libya.

[1][18] Following the October War, Sadat inaugurated a policy of accommodation with the Israeli government, which included going to the peace conference convened in Geneva in December 1973, along with US and Soviet representatives.

[23] In November 1991, while on a visit to Egypt for talks with President Hosni Mubarak, Gaddafi denied charges that his country was involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Gaddafi criticized Egyptian efforts to promote economic relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and said that Egypt was not doing enough to support removal of sanctions against Libya.

[27] In July 2000, both Libya and Egypt agreed to work with the Atlanta-based Carter Center to help mediate between Sudan and Uganda over accusations about support for rebel movements in these countries.

[28] A dispute flared up in January 2004 over Egyptian press criticism of Libya's refusal to stop efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, leading to travel restrictions between the countries.

[32] In October 2006 the Egyptian and Libyan foreign ministers meeting in Cairo gave their support to the Sudanese government over their dispute with the United Nations over peacekeeping forces in Darfur.

[35] In October 2000, Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan signed agreements for monitoring and managing groundwater in the Nubian Sandstone / Northwestern Sahara Aquifer Systems.

[39] In July 2008 Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi met in Tripoli to discuss ways of promoting Egyptian-Libyan relations, especially in oil, gas and investment sector.

[43] In June 1997 during a visit to Libya by president Hosni Mubarak of Egypt the two countries agreed in principle to a plan to link the Egyptian and Libyan gas grids.

[46] In January 2009 Libya announced further investment plans for the Egyptian refining industry, now the largest in Africa with the capacity to process 726,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

[48] In June 2009 the Egyptian firm Taqa Arabia, a unit of Citadel Capital, won a €118m bid to develop a gas distribution grid in Libya to supply nearly 370,000 households.

The Egyptian state, longer established and more developed, sponsored much of this migration, having found that it could cater to the educational and bureaucratic staffing needs of its newly independent neighbor to the west.

Recently there has been a growing trade in looted coins, statues and other artifacts found by Libyans who sell them to Egyptian middlemen for eventual sale to rich American and European collectors.

[61] Egypt welcomed the announcement of the Government of National Unity, and shortly afterwards in February 2021, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh visited Cairo and met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who voiced his support for the new government and expressed Egypt's "readiness to provide its expertise and experience in serving the Libyan people, in a way that contributes to putting Libya on the right track.

"[62] In July 2021, The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed al-Menfi was invited to attend the inauguration of a major Egyptian Navy base on the Mediterranean with President Sisi.

Both factions in Libya, which often have conflicting interests, united in condemnation of Egypt's move, highlighting the decree's violation of international law and Libyan sovereignty.

According to The Washington Institute, the reconciliation between Egypt and Turkey could have significant implications for Libya's political landscape, offering a path toward resolving the country's longstanding internal divisions.