The agreement aimed at ending Libya's divisions struck in Tripoli on 30 August between officials of the internationally recognised government of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and representatives of Benghazi-based warlord Khalifa Haftar started life as an elite pact...
Boulos envisages a power-sharing deal between Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and Haftar with elections a secondary consideration...
Vol 67 No 17 |
- LIBYA
- CHINA
At the time a top Government of National Unity (GNU) trade delegation was in Beijing for cooperation talks led by two of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's closest political allies and advisers Economy and Trade Minister Suhail Boushiha and the Head of Tripoli's High Committee for Libyan-Chinese Cooperation and Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Abdulmajid Mlegta...
Beijing's commercial overtures risk rewarding both the Haftar clan and business interests around Tripoli Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba shoring up their respective empires and making them more resistant to cooperating and following a legitimate path to elections...
DISPATCHES
The power of the Haftar clan was further underscored on 20 August when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi welcomed Haftar and his sons LNA Chief of Staff Khaled Haftar and Qassem Haftar the director of the Libya Reconstruction and Development Fund for talks in Cairo just weeks after Sisi hosted Abdel Hamid Dubaiba the Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity...
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Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba has repeatedly complained about the flow of unmonitored Libyan funds channelled through irregular transactions and the black market from the Benghazi-based regime backed by Haftar to the RSF...
DISPATCHES
That could be because the settlement proposed by Massad Boulos United States President Donald J Trump's African envoy would install Saddam Haftar as head of a new presidential council while keeping Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in post prior to elections being held (AC Vol 67 No 9 A power-sharing deal – based on oil drones and secret cash)...
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But the terms of Washington's proposed settlement – which would install Saddam Haftar the son of the long-time Benghazi warlord and self-styled commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar as head of a new presidential council while keeping Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in post – has run into fierce resistance...
Libya has ramped up its oil output to around a million barrels per day while keeping a lid on outright civil war between Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli and warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar's forces based around Benghazi...
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Both Greece and Turkey are trying to exploit the rivalries between the GNU under Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) government in Eastern Libya which Haftar largely controls...
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...
