One is the political landscape of Southern Libya where Gen Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam has been stationed for several weeks...
It must keep a low profile due to the relatively good relations between Gen Khalifa Haftar and Kaka facilitated by Russian and Emirati mediation...
Rumaih and his union have also accused the clan loyal to General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi of trying to lock down the oil sector claiming they had stolen over 30% of oil production...
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Vol 65 No 25 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
The latter saw Russia's mercenary group Wagner train forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar who still control swathes of eastern Libya (AC Vol 63 No 2 Moscow guns for African gold)...
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If General Khalifa Haftar the warlord who backs the Benghazi government had wanted to close down the fields in the east and south he could have ordered and enforced it...
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After the rival Benghazi-based government of Osama Hammad backed militarily by the warlord Khalifa Haftar ordered a shutdown of eastern oilfields output dropped by more than half in the past week to about 450 000 barrels...
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In Libya UAE endorsed General Khalifa Haftar against a 'national unity' government backed by Qatar and Turkey...
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Aguila Saleh the speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) which supports the GNS and a close ally of Libyan National Army commander General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar has said that he would 'not oppose any meeting that would help end the crisis ' in reference to UN envoy Abdoulaye Bathily's call to hold a meeting for all Libyan parties...
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Tripoli sources urged caution regarding the credibility of the story about Wagner operatives being captured but confirm that there has been an influx of Tuareg fighters in the south alongside speculation that they would wish to exact revenge on the Wagner men in Libya operating in support of Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) militia...
The route from Chad into Darfur was established in June when it became clear that the UAE could not depend solely on its Libyan ally General Khalifa Haftar commander of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army...