Now Khartoum faces a Saudi-Egyptian alliance strengthened by close ties between Cairo and Libya's anti-Islamist rebel general Khalifa Belqasim Haftar which would take care of the long desert border to the north (AC Vol 55 No 11 Chaos theory)...
Vol 55 No 12 |
- EGYPT
- LIBYA
- SUDAN
Cairo is also courting South Sudan while pressure on the NCP is growing from Libya as the anti-Islamist leader General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar sends troops to his deep south...
A group of senior officers led by General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar Chief of Staff under the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is drawing militias to its banner from across Libya in a bid to take control of the country (AC Vol 52 No 7 A family at war)...
On 26 May Libya's anti-Islamist rebel leader General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar said that after he had sorted things out at home he would turn to 'neighbours to the south' (see Feature Enter the General)...
Vol 52 No 7 |
- LIBYA
- AFRICA
Khalifa Belqasim Haftar was appointed Commander with Younis downgraded to Chief-of-Staff...
Abdoulgassim Khalifa Haftar...