The Benghazi City Council and the Benghazi Reconstruction Authority manage Libya's second-largest city and historic capital of Cyrenaica — overseeing urban reconstruction assessment after extensive conflict-era damage, operating the Port of Benghazi as the primary import gateway for eastern Libya, conserving the ancient Greek colonial site of Berenice within the urban footprint, and rehabilitating electricity substations, water mains, and road networks across the city's districts.
The seat for Benghazi on the Board of Mayors is open. Seat #1 is yours to take.
Landmark: Kathaoun Lighthouse & Benghazi Old Town.
The Benghazi Reconstruction Authority coordinates phased rebuilding across the city's most damaged districts — deploying structural engineers to assess hundreds of residential and commercial buildings for repair viability, managing rubble clearance, and sequencing utility restoration (electricity substations, water mains, sewerage networks) in coordination with international donor agencies, prioritising the city's dense old town residential core where traditional Ottoman-era and Italian colonial era buildings sit alongside completely destroyed blocks.
The Benghazi Port Authority manages the primary import corridor for all of eastern Libya — handling food, fuel, construction materials, and consumer goods for several million people across the Cyrenaica region — requiring port operations to maintain continuous crane maintenance, channel dredging, and customs processing capacity as the economic lifeline of eastern Libya, functioning through administrative transitions and periodic security challenges that have repeatedly tested the port's operational resilience.
How a term works
Take office and every day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Benghazi's own record on the Board of Mayors. You are not alone in office: message and chat with other mayors, form a council with friends, trade with nearby cities and send aid. Cities rise together: there is no losing city.