Having failed to become master of his country by the bullet with the collapse last year of his 14-month offensive against Tripoli eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar has opted for the ballot...
The elections roadmap carefully orchestrated by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) seems to be dissolving in the summer heat and meanwhile General Khalifa Haftar remains master of eastern Libya...
Although Moscow has been disappointed by the military failures of its elderly protégé and rogue general Khalifa Haftar in Libya (who had helped arm FACT and other rebel groups) it could emerge as a geopolitical winner in the region...
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Armed by erstwhile French ally in Libya warlord and rogue general Khalifa Haftar the FACT insurgents are heading south with about 300 to 400 armoured vehicles with several thousand fighters and heavy weaponry...
Not only are Libyans tired of the divisions and the economic and political chaos in which they have had to live they are now angry with those seen as responsible notably the Muslim Brotherhood and the eastern-based military leader General Khalifa Haftar...
That would put General Khalifa Haftar leader of the eastern-based forces in the firing line and would make him an unviable partner for the Russians...
That is a potential problem for General Khalifa Haftar leader of the eastern based forces...
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Manfi was expelled from Athens in December 2019 and it is unclear whether he will command support from the European Union's divided member states notably Greece and France who had been the main supporters of General Khalifa Haftar head of the eastern-based militia the Libyan National Army in the civil war...
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To much surprise neither eastern strongman General Khalifa Haftar nor Faiez el Serraj the head of the Government of National Accord in Tripoli are in the frame...
Sisi is aligned with the United Arab Emirates France and Russia in support of eastern Libyan forces led by General Khalifa Haftar (AC Vol 60 No 8 Whose chair is it anyway...