Morocco edition, siel_2020

EU endorses Structured Dialogue recommendations, urges Libya to advance toward elections & institutional unity

The European Union and its Member State diplomatic missions in Libya expressed on June 11 support for the conclusions of the UN-facilitated Structured Dialogue process, describing the outcome as the product of a “Libyan-led and Libyan-owned” initiative. The EU urged all Libyan stakeholders to engage constructively with the recommendations, stressing that their implementation is essential […]

Libya: Foreign mercenaries recruited for Haftar by Security Company

Mercenaries linked to Frontier Services Group, a security company based in Iraq and UAE, have been fighting on the side of military commander Khalifa Haftar whose forces have launched an offensive to seize the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Under a secret deal, Frontier Service Group, run by American Businessman Erik Prince, had recently flown private […]

Congo-Rwanda talks collapse as conditions for M23 negotiations remain unresolved

Leaders from Congo and Rwanda canceled a much-anticipated meeting in Angola intended to ease the crisis caused by the M23 rebel insurgency. Observers had hoped these face-to-face talks would produce a breakthrough. Instead, the latest setback suggests that efforts to quell the nearly three-year conflict in eastern Congo continue to falter, leaving more than 1.9 […]