Abstract
Since the late 1990s, Libya has been engaged in a process of settling its international disputes with the United States, the European Union and the United Nations in order to obtain the lifting of the embargo on the country. One of the conditions set before the lifting of international sanctions was the issue of transit migration of sub-Saharan Africans who crossed the Sahara and then the maritime straits to reach Europe illegally. However, the Euro-Mediterranean prism makes us lose sight of the importance of the migratory and commercial flows that increasingly link the two shores of the Sahara, but also Africa to the Asian commercial centres. The author attempts to grasp these invisible dynamics by proposing an overview of the Libyan capital, attentive to the changes observed within the urban fabric, while the public authorities are erasing all the visible links of Libya's Africanity, which was so prevalent during the 1990s, in order to transform Tripoli from a 'pariah' state capital into a showcase for a Libya on the way to reintegration into the international community.