Sep 14, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Despite the ongoing summer power cuts and the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, the ultra-conservative Madkhali Salafist groups have maintained and even expanded their campaign against Sufi believers and their holy sites in those areas of eastern Libya under the control...
Aug 25, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
On 21 August, following weeks of intense international pressure, Prime Minister Fayez Serraj of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the eastern-based House of Representatives (HoR), simultaneously proclaimed...
Aug 3, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
The US Chargé d’Affaires to Libya, Joshua Harris, visited Misrata and Benghazi last week where he, respectively, held talks with the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and the self-styled Libyan Armed Army Forces (LAAF). This rare visit by...
Jul 13, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
Tensions over Libya between Turkey and both Egypt and France have dominated the headlines in recent weeks. All three of these countries are allies of the US and President Donald Trump enjoys particularly warm relations with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Jun 19, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
The Libyan Arab Armed Forces’ (LAAF) withdrawal from western Libya has redrawn the fault lines of Libya’s conflict. It has emboldened the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) which, with Turkish backing, will push hard to extend its area of...
Jun 15, 2020 | Libya, Menas Associates
The Arab League’s Assistant Secretary-General, Hossam Zaki, recently affirmed on Egyptian TV that Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) is the ‘accredited government for the Arab League, the African Union and the United Nations.’ This statement from a senior...
