In recent years the Gulf state has interfered in regional politics and wars backing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka 'Hemeti' in Sudan as well as Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar (AC Vol 64 No 15 Hemeti's grand plan is stalemated)...

Militias linked to the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) and its erstwhile rivals in the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar have taken over national border control and are working with European Union forces in the region...

The mercenaries remain the backbone of Gen Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) militia even though the number of Russians has dwindled from around 2 500 to just a few hundred centred on the Kharouba air base east of Benghazi...

And the two men and their military forces have worked together in Sudan and in Libya where the RSF supplied at least 1 000 fighters in support of the rogue general and self-styled commander of the Libya National Army Khalifa Haftar...

Eastern Libya's General Khalifa Haftar does business with Hemeti who lent him several hundred fighters in May 2020...

Other reports including the Wall Street Journal cite shipments of materiel from Libya's rebel commander General Khalifa Haftar to Hemeti...

Significantly there has been no pushback from eastern-based militia leader General Khalifa Haftar nor from the speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who usually never misses an opportunity to criticise Dubaiba...

William Burns director of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency has been trying to convince Egypt to pressure General Khalifa Haftar leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) militia to disband and send away not only his Wagner operatives but Chadian and Sudanese fighters who make up a substantial part of the LNA...