by Client Client | Feb 9, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 9 February, clashes broke out in Tajoura, east of Tripoli, between the al-Duraa militia (aka the Baqara Brigade named after its commander Bashir Khalaf Allah or ‘the cow’) and the Sabriyya militia. The clashes were reportedly prompted when a member of the Sabriyya...
by Client Client | Feb 7, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 7 and 8 February, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) and liaison committees from Libya, Sudan and Niger held a two-day meeting in Cairo chaired by UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily. On 8 February, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a...
by Client Client | Feb 5, 2023 | International actors
On 6 February, EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi attended the handover ceremony of the first of five EU-financed search and rescue vessels to the Libyan coastguard. The handover ceremony took place in Adria, Italy, in the presence of Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime...
by Client Client | Feb 5, 2023 | Libyan actors
On the evening of 5 February to the morning of 6 February, clashes broke out in Zawiyya between unidentified groups. At least two people were killed and four were injured. The clashes ceased following the intervention of the 103 Brigade.
by Client Client | Feb 3, 2023 | International actors
On 3 February, The Associated Press and the Wall Street Journal claimed that regional officials from Libya, Egypt, and Sudan have stated that the US is looking to increase its efforts to remove the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, from Libya and...
by Client Client | Feb 1, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 1 February, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister, Adul Hameed Dabaiba, and the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor, Sadiq al-Kabir met with the 162 Brigade and other armed forces aligned to the Commander of the West Coastal Military Region, Major...
by Client Client | Jan 31, 2023 | International actors
On 31 January, UN Special Envoy to Libya and the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, met with the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita, in Morocco where the two discussed events in Libya. Bourita reportedly offered...
by Client Client | Jan 28, 2023 | International actors
On 28 January, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, along with her Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Minister of Interior Matteo Biantidosi, arrived in Tripoli for several high level meetings. Meloni and her delegation met with the Government of National Unity...
by Client Client | Jan 28, 2023 | International actors
On 28 January, a statement from the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Al-Karama Military Operation Room surfaced online claiming that the LNA had received information that the UK Embassy in Tripoli is moving to assemble the militias of the Western Region under the...
by Client Client | Jan 27, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 27 January, photos circulated on social media of the Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy Libya, Leslie Ordeman, meeting with the Commander of the Warshefana 55 Battalion, Muammar al-Dawi. The image was not shared on official US Embassy pages and no details of the...
