Libya

Libya has participated in the Own Africavision Song Contest 8 times since its debut in the first edition. It first took part in the first edition and has entered every edition since then.

Libya is one of four countries (alongside Djibouti, Mali and Mauritania) to have qualified for the final of every contest they have competed in, and is the only country that participated in every edition of the Own Africavision Song Contest to do so. Libya has a total of three top six placements. The only countries with the same amount of top six results are Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mauritania.

History
Libya made its debut in the Own Africavision Song Contest 1. The first ever performance by Libya: "Galbek ween" by Hassan El Shafei featuring Bahjat is also by far the most successful Libyan entry to date, receiving 132 points in the final and placing fifth. Having automatically qualified for the final, the song "Que sera, sera" by Romanian boys project Havana was internally selected as the Libyan entry for the second edition, Libya received only 77 points and placed 18th.

For the third edition Libyan broadcaster LRT organized its first public selection, titled Iihya (Revival), with the goal of showcasing the reviving Libyan music industry as well as to find a song that has potential to become a hit outside Libyan territory. Having received maximum points from four out of five televoting regions, Randall and Tinariwen with "Sastanàqqàm" was the winner and represented Libya, with which they finished 5th in the final receiving 148 points. Libya therefore achieved their second automatic qualification to the final in the fifth edition, during which LRT reverted to an internal selection picking the second season's winner of Arabic reality singing competition SuperStar Ayman Alatar to perform the song "Ya delaly". However they achieved their worst result to date – 24th with 43 points.

In the sixth edition, LRT once again opted to internally approach an established act which resulted in the selection of rapper Gashi, while his song was chosen through the second edition of Iihya with three candidate songs in contention. The winning song "Roses" managed to qualify Libya to the final and finished 14th with 95 points. A public submission process was introduced for the first time in order to find an entry for seventh edition, with the song "Nshdowny alyke" performed by Saleh Yasser featuring Basher Altarge finishing in 6th place with 141 points in the final, qualifying Libya to the final of the eighth edition. The Libyan entry for the eighth edition, "Must Be Ready" performed by British-Libyan singer Aya, once again came through open submission and placed 18th with 80 points in total.

Following Gambia and Zimbabwe's non-qualification in the eighth edition, Libya is currently the only country that participated in every edition of the Own Africavision Song Contest to have qualified for the final of every contest they have competed in. As a result, the contest has been extremely popular in the country and has consistently been the most watched show on Libyan television, with an average of 3 million viewers watching the shows every edition.

Draw History
The table below lists the positions in the running order Libya has been allocated to. In the vast majority of cases, the country has performed in the second half of the shows it has competed in.

Voting History
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12 points
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