Activists from different regions of Libya called for Saturday protest marches to demand dropping all political bodies in Libya, the central governor of Libya, and all directors appointed through quotas. The activities gave the regions of Tripoli, Benghazi and Sabha the freedom to choose the method of assembly, provided that it be at the same…
Category: AFRICA
Water Poverty and the Growing Conflict Between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
Julian Vigo The Ethiopian government made a strategic decision to control most of the Nile River that flows into Egypt and Sudan. “The GERD will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant when it comes into full operation.” The satellite images are frightening. Prior to this summer’s’s filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), countries downstream from Ethiopia…
Al-Saraj’s Resignation Will Escalate Disputes Between GNA Officials and Militias of Tripoli and Misrata
A failed government that relied on extremists and militias to consolidate its power Tripoli – The Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, announced, on Wednesday, his desire to hand over his duties by the end of October, in a move likely to increase political ambiguity in Tripoli and even internal…
LNA Operation in Sebha Was a Painful Blow to ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood
The security operation carried out by the Libyan National Army in the city of Sebha represented a painful blow to the ISIS terrorist organization by eliminating one of its most prominent emirs in North Africa and dismantling his cell. It also perplexed Muslim Brotherhood politicians and the media as they do not consider ISIS a…
International Consultations on Libya See a Breakthrough
Suzan El Ghitani Libyan politician Said Rashwan confirmed that the consultations that took place in Morocco, Egypt and Switzerland began to break the political deadlock that dominates the Libyan scene, adding in an interview with the Africa News Portal that there are direct relations and contacts between the Libyan parties that were previously missing. To…
Prime Minister of Eastern Libya’s Government Resigns While Fayez al-Saraj Clings to Power
Libyan youth block a road with burning tires in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Benghazi on September 12, 2020 Abdullah al-Thinni’s government in eastern Libya resigned, responding to the calls of protesters who took to the streets of Benghazi, al-Bayda, Tobruk, Shahat, al-Marj, and the marginalized areas of the south, while the government of Fayez…
UNSMIL Condemns al-Marj Security Directorate for Resisting “Peaceful” Arsonists
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a baffling statement on the attack on the Security Directorate in the city of al-Marj and the attempted arson in which it tacitly supported the attack, describing the attackers, one of whom was killed, as “peaceful demonstrators”. In a statement issued Sunday evening, it wrote: “UNSMIL…
“Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories”: Remembering Amílcar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral Study Group Amílcar Cabral (center) with members of the Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC). Working people across the world are struggling against the economic domination and exploitation, which has been greatly intensified amid COVID-19 pandemic. On the 96 anniversary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral, we examine…
Militia Control of the CBL and GNA Has Caused Libya’s Financial Chaos
The Speaker of the House of Representative (HoR), Chancellor Aguila Saleh warned in a statement on Friday, of the difficult phase that Libya is going through and the external and internal agendas aimed, as he put it, to perpetuate the chaos in the country and plunder its wealth. Chancellor Aguila Saleh added that Libya is…
Libya: Militias, Multiple Tracks, Foreign Meddling, Prevent Progress in Dialogues
The United States and Russia entered the Libyan-Libyan dialogue by opening parallel paths to the Moroccan Bouznika path, in an effort to break through the political blockage deepened by dissonant regional and international agendas, and the complexity of the proliferation of arms, militias, mercenaries, and the direct Turkish military presence in western Libya. The multiplicity…
Sudan’s Roadmap to Peace
Peoples Dispatch Representatives of the Sudanese transitional government and rebel groups in the coalition Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) sign their initials on the roadmap agreed for the implementation of the peace agreement. (Photo: Radio Dabanga/social media) The roadmap for the peace agreement between Sudan’s transitional government and rebel groups was signed on September 7. However,…
Israel and the UAE Hope to Turn Yemen’s Remote Islands into an Intel Gathering Hub
Ahmed Abdulkareem In the wake of the recent normalization of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August, it is becoming increasingly clear that Tel Aviv is set to take on an increasingly active role in the war on Yemen, a war that the UAE – together with Saudi Arabia – launched over six…
