Oct 31, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
Libya’s internationally recognised Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) recently announced that its 2020 Budget would probably be slightly less than LD48 billion (US$34 billion) and about US$200 million more than last year’s budget. The government is...
Oct 16, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
There is increased international concern that Islamic State (IS) could use the current security vacuum — caused by the US departure from northern Syria and subsequent confrontation between Kurdish forces and the Turkish military — to re-gain lost prestige in its...
Oct 1, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
There has been speculation that Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) alliance of militias have sought to mislead his opponents and the international community into thinking that Russia is providing more support for his Tripoli campaign than it...
Sep 19, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
US President Donald Trump’s decision to sack his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, could have significant consequences for the US posture toward Libya and Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in particular. Bolton has historically been one of Haftar’s most supportive...
Sep 4, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) and its allies attempted to re-take Gharyan — a city in north western Libya — in a new offensive on 26 August, although so far their opponents have been able to resist by relying on ground forces re-deployed from southern...
Aug 7, 2019 | Libya, Menas Associates
Ghassan Salame briefs UNSC on Libya’s current crisis There has been a drastic shift in the demeanour of UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé in the last few weeks. The stoic diplomat — who has survived terrorist attacks in Baghdad in 2003 and Beirut in 2005 — has...
