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The Court of Appeal in London has upheld a ruling on a property in the capital linked to the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The court sided with a US defense contractor in its bid to collect a £16 million award issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Libyan State. The dispute centers […]
Eight Tuareg rebel leaders have reportedly been killed by drone strikes on a town in Mali’s north that was carried out by the country’s military regime at a time when the Tuareg factions were discussing how to form a united military and political structure. “Several synchronized drone strikes martyred some Azawad leaders on 1 December […]
Seven years after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, Libya remains in turmoil, battered by infighting between heavily armed militias and a political crisis that has divided the country. The initial euphoria is a distant memory as little have changed since the fall of Gaddafi’s dictatorship. A 2015 UN-backed deal to set up the unity […]
France has confirmed that the Prime Minister-designate Fayez Serraj of the UN-backed Government of National Accord will be meeting, in Paris on Tuesday, with Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army, loyal to the Tobruk-based House of Representative. An official statement highlighted that the initiative is geared towards facilitating “a political agreement” between […]
The lack of an overall US strategy is complicating the U.S. military’s struggle to help bring stability to Africa where focus should be on adopting a cohesive policy regarding eastern and northern Africa, according to commander of the U.S. Special Operations Forces in Africa Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc. In an article titled “The Gray Zone […]
Sebastian Gorka, a White House Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, suggested partitioning Libya into three states during a meeting with a senior European Diplomat, the Guardian reported. Gorka was said to have drawn the map on a napkin based on the old Ottoman provinces of Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania in the north-west and […]
Libyan influential tribes have been deserting the UN-backed unity government to join the side of east-based army commander Khalifa Haftar, increasing therefore the influence of the self-style Field Marshal in the challenge-awash North African country, reports say. The influence of Russian mouth-piece in the Libyan crisis is becoming alarming in the West. The army commander […]
Set to strengthen its foothold in a Libya beset by chaos and instability, Russia threw its weight on Libya’s strongman Marshall Khalifa Haftar whose forces have made a blitzkrieg advance taking several oil fields and threatening to overtake the capital Tripoli from the UN-backed government. A US diplomat who requested not to be named told […]
The UN has issued a 60-page report harshly criticizing the Libyan justice system and denouncing the trial of senior officials of the Gadhafi era as “a missed opportunity for justice and for the Libyan people to have the chance to confront and reflect on the conduct of the former regime.” The report, issued by the […]
Libyan field Marshal Khalifa Haftar told French media Journal du Dimanche (JDD) Sunday he hoped President Donald Trumps would join President Vladimir Putin in supporting his army in the fight against terrorists in Libya. “If Russia and the United States come together in order to stamp out terrorism that can help us. We are going […]