by Client Client | May 20, 2025 | Libyan actors
The truce keeping the peace among Tripoli’s rival armed groups and their political backers has remained in place this week, with no major clashes or fighting. However, tensions remain high and there have been pockets of violence. On 20 May, the Joint Truce Committee...
by Client Client | May 20, 2025 | International actors
In a Senate hearing on 20 May, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, ‘No, there’s no deportation of Palestinians from Gaza to Libya. What we have talked to some nations is about voluntary moving.’ On 23 May, Rubio issued a statement to Judge Brian Murphy, a...
by Client Client | May 19, 2025 | Libyan actors
On 19 May, Lloyd’s List reported that since 13 May (when clashes intensified in Tripoli), there have been no vessels tracked arriving at Tripoli port. Several shipping companies have suspended operations due to the insecurity. The few ships that were berthed inside...
by Client Client | May 19, 2025 | International actors
The UN and a wide range of international actors have been calling for calm and seeking to facilitate mediation, with PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba holding a well-publicised meeting with several ambassadors presumably designed to show he still has international backing....
by Client Client | May 18, 2025 | Libyan actors
On 18 May, the situation in Tripoli was widely stable. A couple of streets, including the Coastal Road, Tripoli University Road and 2nd Ring Road were temporarily blocked by protesters during the day. After a couple of hours, the Tripoli Security Directorate announced...
by Client Client | May 17, 2025 | Libyan actors
The fighting in Tripoli has created a high death toll and a significant amount of damage to infrastructure and property, as well as increased theft and looting. There have also been discoveries of bodies and mass graves in previously Stability Support Agency...
by Client Client | May 17, 2025 | International actors
On 18 May, the Presidential Council (PC), as Commander-in-Chief, in cooperation with UNSMIL, formed a truce committee ‘building on the fragile peace reached last week’ and held its first meeting. The committee is headed by Libyan Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General...
by Client Client | May 17, 2025 | Libyan actors
Following the Friday protests, the situation in the capital calmed down to some degree, though anti Dabaiba tensions feeling remained high with a civil disobedience movement declared and various political moves initiated to remove him. On 17 May, the Souq al-Jumaa...
by Client Client | May 17, 2025 | Libyan actors
Late on 17 May, PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba made a televised speech to the Libyan people – his first such speech since the violence and instability began on 12 May – in which he outlined his rationale for moving against Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) commander Abdul...
by Client Client | May 16, 2025 | Libyan actors
There were widespread calls for mass demonstrations against the Abdul Hameed Dabaiba government on Friday evening (16 May), with pro-Dabaiba actors warning they were ‘suspicious’ while anti-Dabaiba figures gave their support to protestors. While the main protests were...
