Cairo has reaffirmed its support for the Libyan National Army (LNA) in its fight to uproot terrorism in Libya and for its contribution to the drive to rebuild legitimacy and promote political solutions to the Libyan crisis that meet the hopes and (...)
Cairo has reaffirmed its support for the Libyan National Army (LNA) in its fight to uproot terrorism in Libya and for its contribution to the drive to rebuild legitimacy and promote political solutions to the Libyan crisis that meet the hopes and (...)
Libyan National Army (LNA) Command announced Sunday evening the end of the first phase of the operation launched by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar to “liberate the capital from the grip of terrorism”, as the LNA communique put it.
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Libyan National Army (LNA) Command announced Sunday evening the end of the first phase of the operation launched by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar to “liberate the capital from the grip of terrorism”, as the LNA communique put it.
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While international efforts to avert escalation in the military operation to secure control over Tripoli that Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the Benghazi based commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), launched 20 days ago remain feeble, the (...)
The international community remains divided as war clouds continue to darken over Tripoli with stakeholders holding their breath for something to give that will make it possible to kickstart a new political process to replace the moribund process (...)
After more than two weeks, violent fighting continues in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli between the Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar and troops of the internationally-recognised consensus government led by Fayez (...)
By Tuesday, five days since Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar launched a military operation to secure control over Tripoli, Government of National Accord (GNA) forces succeeded in establishing a security cordon around (...)
By Tuesday, five days since Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar launched a military operation to secure control over Tripoli, Government of National Accord (GNA) forces succeeded in establishing a security cordon around (...)
On Tuesday Algeria's Army Chief Ahmed Gazed Salah asked for the presidency to be vacated. “We must find a way out of this crisis immediately, within the constitution's framework,” he said. Accordingly the Upper House Chairman Abdel-Kader Bensalah is (...)
On Tuesday Algeria's Army Chief Ahmed Gazed Salah asked for the presidency to be vacated. “We must find a way out of this crisis immediately, within the constitution's framework,” he said. Accordingly the Upper House Chairman Abdel-Kader Bensalah is (...)
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) is working to hammer out a new formula for ending the Libyan crisis with the help of Western diplomats who have been holding intensive talks with Libyan political forces in order to rally them behind an (...)
Little insight was offered by the brief United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announcement of an agreement between Libyan National Army Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and Chairman of the Libyan Presidency Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, (...)
As Algerian President Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika submitted his candidacy papers at the country's Constitutional Council on Sunday, rival candidates announced their withdrawal from the presidential elections scheduled for April while demonstrators around (...)
In a “message to the nation” this week, Algerian President Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika announced his decision to retract his bid to seek a fifth term as president and to postpone the country's presidential elections that were to be held on 18 April.
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to seek a fifth term as president has triggered a wave of protests in the Algerian capital Algiers and elsewhere in the country, with some observers saying that the protests, which erupted on Friday (...)
On Sunday, this week, Libyans celebrated the eighth anniversary of the revolution that ousted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after more than four decades in power.
It took eight months of fierce battling between regime forces and Western-backed opposition (...)
On 16 January, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), launched a military campaign to bring the anarchic southwestern region, Fezzan, under control. Stretching across more than 550,000 square kilometres, or about (...)
Militia violence reared its head in Libya again last week in the southern outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while the Libyan National Army has launched a military campaign aimed to assert control over southern and central Libya.
The renewed (...)
Militia violence reared its head in Libya again last week in the southern outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while the Libyan National Army has launched a military campaign aimed to assert control over southern and central Libya. The renewed (...)
Tunisia has entered 2019 still shaken by the acrimony between its two largest political parties, the liberal Nidaa Tounes and the Islamist Ennahda, which have locked horns over a range of issues, including the handling of the economic straits which (...)
Tunisia has entered 2019 still shaken by the acrimony between its two largest political parties, the liberal Nidaa Tounes and the Islamist Ennahda, which have locked horns over a range of issues, including the handling of the economic straits which (...)
The Libyan House of Representatives, in the last week of November, passed two amendments to the August 2011 Constitutional Declaration, one to fortify the constitutional referendum law against legal challenge and the other to reshape the Presidency (...)
This week's major international conference in Palermo managed to nudge forward the UN-sponsored working plan for Libya which has been stymied in disputes since it was announced in September 2017.
Attended by key figures from eastern and western (...)
This week's major international conference in Palermo managed to nudge forward the UN-sponsored working plan for Libya which has been stymied in disputes since it was announced in September 2017.
Attended by key figures from eastern and western (...)
