It's a predicament for the eastern banks too which lent hundreds of millions to the 'parallel CBL' to fund the last eastern-based government and General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) militia...

Bashagha once the interior minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) is backed by the eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar which is why his government can't move into the capital Tripoli and take over the levers of power...

The Tripoli government supports the west on the conflict while the rival Fathi Bashagha administration is linked via General Khalifa Haftar to the Kremlin...

In Libya Wagner trained many of General Khalifa Haftar's fighters at the Jufra air base including Chadian and Sudanese rebels but Haftar failed militarily and could not conquer Tripoli (AC Vol 61 No 12 Haftar falls back)...

Also three of the most prominent presidential candidates – warlord General Khalifa Haftar current Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and Seif el Islam el Gadaffi son of the former dictator – are unacceptable to too many people with the means to prevent the polls (AC Vol 62 No 24 Everyone wants to be president)...

General Khalifa Haftar the head of the Libyan National Army militia that aspired but failed to conquer Tripoli with Russian Egyptian Saudi and Emirati arms and money for about two years threw his hat in the ring two days later on 16 November...

What support remains for the Gadaffi family is found in the southern part of the country but Sebha itself is largely controlled by the Libyan National Army (LNA) of General Khalifa Haftar who regards Seif el Islam as a serious threat...

The UAE's militantly anti-MB de facto ruler Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) championed aspiring strongman General Khalifa Haftar against the UN-backed government in Libya...

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...