by Client Client | May 26, 2022 | Libyan actors
Reports have emerged that Ali Kanna, a Tuareg military commander, is attempting to build an anti-Libyan National Army (LNA) armed group to remove the LNA from the Fezzan. On 26 May, a new group called the ‘Armed People’s Force’ was created, nominally under the...
by Client Client | May 26, 2022 | International actors
On 26 May, the UN Security Council (UNSC) held a briefing on Libya where the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, expressed concern that ‘the protracted political impasse is having an increasingly negative impact on...
by Client Client | May 25, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 25 May, the Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Muhammed al-Menfi, issued a decision (PC Resolution No. 588 of 2022) reinstating the Commander of the Nawasi Brigade Mustafa Qaddour, in his position of Deputy Head of the Libyan Intelligence Service (LIS) for...
by Client Client | May 23, 2022 | International actors
On 23 May, a two-day workshop began on ‘International Ways to Support the Disarmament, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) Programme for Libya and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya’ in Toledo, Spain. The workshop was attended by the Government of National...
by Client Client | May 21, 2022 | International actors
On 21 May, France was reported to be making plans to hold a conference centred on proposing a new federalist mechanism for power-sharing in Libya based on the country’s three historical regions of Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. Former National Transitional...
by Client Client | May 21, 2022 | International actors
On 21 May, the UAE hosted the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister, Abdul Hameed Dabaiba, and the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, for two separate meetings with the President of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, at the...
by Client Client | May 21, 2022 | Libyan actors
On 21 May, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister, Abdul Hameed Dabaiba, issued a directive to the 166 Brigade suspending their operations in the al-Shuwayrif area (located between Tripoli and Sebha in the South) and instructing their members to return...
by Client Client | May 19, 2022 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 19 May, the External Security Agency near Souq al-Jumaa and al-Fatteh was reportedly raided by militias affiliated to the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC) in addition to militias linked to Mohammed Bahroun (aka ‘al-Far’, the ‘Mouse’). During the raid,...
by Client Client | May 18, 2022 | Libyan actors
On the evening of 18 May, a large convoy affiliated to Juwaili headed to al-Swani in southern Tripoli from a base in al-Aziziyah. The 444 Brigade and potentially the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) reportedly mobilised towards Salah al-Din in response. Elements of the...
by Client Client | May 18, 2022 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 18 May, the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) 106 Brigade reportedly raided a camp in Wadi Otbh (approximately 50km north-west of Murzuq), arresting a number of suspected terrorists. Initial reports suggest the suspected terrorists were affiliated to Al-Qaeda.
