Now EU leaders are panicking about a spike in illegal crossings from eastern Libya for which they blame Russia's expanding operations and its alliance with key figures in rogue general Khalifa Haftar's regime in Benghazi eastern Libya...
The east and most of the south is controlled by the Benghazi-based warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar...
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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