by Client Client | Jul 29, 2023 | Libyan actors
Late on 29 July, forces affiliated with Zintani commander Osama Juwaili set up earth berms and closed roads in the al-Aziziyya area around 40km south of Tripoli, temporarily restricting movement to and from Tripoli. In response, armed groups in Tripoli aligned with...
by Client Client | Jul 27, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 27 July, protests against Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba were held in Zawiyya. They were largely peaceful and called for the removal of Dabaiba and the GNU, the removal of UN Special Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily, and an end to...
by Client Client | Jul 26, 2023 | International actors
On 26 July, soldiers in Niger (which borders Libya to the south-west) announced a coup on national TV, saying they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions, and closed the nation’s borders. They also detained Niger President Mohamed Bazoum. The...
by Client Client | Jul 24, 2023 | International actors
On 24 July, Bathily and the the Ambassadors of Italy, Egypt, France, Germany, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom met with Haftar in Benghazi to discuss the preparations for the Security Working Group meeting which took place the following day. In his opening...
by Client Client | Jul 18, 2023 | International actors
On 18 July, Amnesty International highlighted that activist and professor of geography at the University of Benghazi Belkacem Eljard was kidnapped by armed men affiliated with the Internal Security Agency (ISA) from his home in Benghazi on 27 June. It called on the...
by Client Client | Jul 18, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 17 and 18 July, France hosted talks between the Government of National Unity (GNU) Chief of Staff Muhammed al-Haddad, and the Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Abdurrazeq al-Nadhouri, in the presence of the official members of the 5+5 Joint Military...
by Client Client | Jul 18, 2023 | Libyan actors
On the morning of 18 July, the Italian fishing boat ‘Orizzonte’ was machine-gunned about 94 nm north of Misrata (i.e. outside Libyan territorial waters) by a Libyan Coast Guard vessel. However, the crew of six remained unharmed. The shots were fired from aboard a...
by Client Client | Jul 17, 2023 | International actors
On 17 July, the Libyan-American Alliance (LAA) announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Russia’s Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar for their alleged involvement in war crimes committed against Libyan...
by Client Client | Jul 17, 2023 | International actors
On 17 – 18 July, France hosted in Paris a meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee, in the presence of senior representatives of UNSMIL and several ambassadors to Libya. The main aim is to sign an agreement to form a joint military force to secure the...
by Client Client | Jul 16, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 16 July, a brief but very fierce firefight took place between a 444 Brigade patrol and forces of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) 177th Battalion in an area to the west of Wadi al-Shatti, north of Adiri. 444 had reportedly opened fire after being stopped by...
