The latest contract was filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act on 23 July – the same day Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Boulos met Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in Tripoli before travelling to Benghazi to meet General Khalifa Haftar the following day...

Anger with the Government of National Unity (GNU) of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba was already on the rise when one of the militia-infested capital's most powerful chiefs Abdel Ghani el Kikli (aka Ghneiwa) was shot dead during a meeting with the commander of the GNU's main military force 444 Brigade on 12 May...

But alliances started to change towards the end of last year when El Kabir who had consistently bankrolled the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) fell out with its Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dubaiba...

Still a UAE client Haftar had to come to terms behind the scenes with Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's government in Tripoli (AC Vol 63 No 16 Dubaiba woos UAE and Haftar with about-turn on oil)...

Another key militia is the State Support Authority (SSA) led by Abdel Ghani el Kikli which reports to Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba...

Yet capitalising on the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's crossing of the Rubicon in his short-lived march on Moscow on 24 June Libyan rumour-merchants claimed that Kharouba had been attacked with Turkish-made drones belonging to the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli headed by Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba...