The United States said the Russian military flew over Libya, with a dozen unidentifiable planes, in an attempt to provide air support to Russian mercenaries fighting in Tripoli. What happened shows an important escalation of the Russian military intervention in the Libyan civil war. The war has been raging in Libya since 2011, [...]
read more
The United Arab Emirates with a secret airlift supplies weapons to General Khalifa Haftar. The news leaked from a United Nations report. The war began in Libya in 2011, when a popular uprising supported by the West and its allies led to the death of the country's dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. Much of the east [...]
read more
(by Vanessa Tomassini) The prolonged conflict, the lack of hierarchy, the continuous entry of new forces into their ranks and the difficulty in replacing the losses on the field, are all factors that, although minimized or denied by those directly involved, are intensifying the tensions among the forces affiliated with the Government of National Accord (GNA). The afternoon […]
read more
On 9 March, French President Emmanuel Macron received Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) at the Elysée, for a meeting held secret, which had not even been included in the agenda. The newspaper "Le Monde" reports it. Sources close to the dossier let it be known that the visit of the Libyan general is part of the [...]
read more
(by Vanessa Tomassini, PRP Channel correspondent in Tunis) On Saturday we met the Mauritanian researcher El-Hussein el-Hallawi and the former spokesman of the Supreme Council of Tribes, Mohamed Umar Ahmed Musa, with whom we tried to analyze the possible scenarios in Libya, in light of the current crisis. Most experts and observers agree that, at [...]
read more
Al Serraj the day before the visit of the EU delegation (scheduled for January 7), headed by High Representative Borrel, warned: "Do not come to Libya, for security reasons, it is dangerous here". As Semprini points out in La Stampa, in reality, Fayez al Sarraj does not want any interference, he wants to continue with the agreement signed with Turkey by [...]
read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked, during a visit to Tunisia to allow Tunis, Algeria and Qatar to be part of the Berlin conference on the Libya dossier to be held on January 14-15, 2020. Erdogan added, in a joint press conference with Tunisian President Kais Saied, to be sure that Tunis [...]
read more
Al Serraj's armed forces arrested pilot Amer Al-Jagam after his plane was shot down in southern Al-Zawiya. As reported by The Libia Observer, the pilot reported that the mercenaries of the Russian group Wagner operate in coordination with the operations room of Tarhouna in ground operations (snipers) [...]
read more
The news is reported by all Libyan newspapers, from the Libyan Observer to the Libyan Address. Surprisingly, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj flew to Turkey to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the early afternoon. The main issue addressed was the agreement to send Turkish troops to help the Tripoli government. Only [...]
read more
The Egyptian press reported that General Khalifa Haftar announced “zero hour for the start of the decisive offensive on Tripoli. The Cyrenaica general even gave his men his final instructions: "do not touch private homes and properties". There are, however, four European countries, Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain that still hope to be able to find [...]
read more
The president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir #Putin has landed in Rome. The first appointment at the Vatican, for the audience with #Pope Francis. The parade of cars, reports ANSA, coming directly from Fiumicino, reached the Vatican through St. Peter's Square and the Arco delle Campane, to then reach the San Damaso courtyard. Here Putin and his [...]
read more
At Palazzo Chigi to meet the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte. The head of the Government of National Accord (Gna), Fayez al Sarraj. According to "La Repubblica", he will press for Sarraj to accept the truce that the United Nations has asked for at the beginning of the month of Ramadan. In the last few hours, however, the commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army [...]
read more
The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is concerned about the “risk that in the perspective of fighting the Islamic radicals, their transmigration to Tunisia and then also to Italy could be encouraged. A risk that we must all avert, I am trying to sensitize everyone ”. The problem is Libya where the Islamic State, taking advantage of the country's instability [...]
read more
Donald Trump, without consulting with the State Department, supported General Haftar, creating embarrassment also for Italy which found itself almost alone in supporting the Libyan contender Al Serraj, the only one legitimized by the international community. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from China had to review the Italian position: "Our position is not at [...]
read more
French President Emmanuel Macaron had a telephone conversation with President of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, to deny his country's ties to the current war in southern Tripoli, after several reports point to France precisely behind the Khalifa Haftar's war on Tripoli. Macron therefore called for an immediate stop to the fighting. [...]
read more
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from Vinitaly spoke of Libya: “We have been following the Libya dossier for some time and we are also following it in the last stages. It is an evolution that worries us and I must confess that it does not leave us completely surprised because obviously, following the evolution, we had grasped this possible evolution. We are certainly trying to [...]
read more
Today the Abu Dhabi summit between the premier of the Libyan National Agreement government, Fayez al Sarraj, the Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), and the president of the Libyan oil company National Oil Corporation (Noc) , Mustafa Sanallah. This was reported by the Italian news agency Nova. According to the television broadcaster "al Arabiya", with [...]
read more
Media close to General Kalifa Haftar reported a surprise visit by the deputy director of the Italian External Information and Security Agency (Aise), Giovanni Caravelli, which took place in Tripoli, in these particularly hot days. According to sources from the Libyan secret services, Caravelli arrived in the capital of Libya with a delegation defined as "high-level" of Italian intelligence on board [...]
read more
Members of the presidential council of the UN-backed government of national accord of Libya, Vice Premier Ahmed Maiteeq, and Vice-Presidents Fathi al Majbari and Abdel Salam Kajman, have issued a statement announcing the possible collapse of the executive led by the prime minister Fayez al Sarraj. This was reported by the Italian press agency [...]
read more
The head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sirraj, went to Malta today to discuss the issues relating to security and illegal immigration affecting the countries bordering the Mediterranean. Maltese newspapers reported the meeting between Al-Sirraj and the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat. The Lybian Observer reports it. Before meeting [...]
read more
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met with President Al Serraj in Tripoli, followed by the President of the High Council of State, Khaled Al Meshri. Then the Italian premier met with General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi. A mission through which to carry forward, with the work of diplomacy and intelligence, the plan proposed with the Conference [...]
read more
(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday the Council of Ministers decided to designate the new Italian ambassador to Tripoli, Giuseppe Maria Buccino Grimaldi while Giuseppe Perrone will take on the role of new ambassador to Theran. The Ambassador was recalled to Rome last summer following controversies with General Haftar over the statements on the Libyan elections [...]
read more
(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Italian government, as regards the “Libya dossier”, is reaping the fruits of the Washington agreements of last July 30 between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and American President Donald Trump. In the press conference organized at the end of the meeting, US President Donald Trump spoke of "strategic dialogue" with Italy, based on cooperation ranging from energy [...]
read more
(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The weakness of the French government, grappling with the "noisy" revolt of the yellow vests, is favoring some very interesting processes in Libya for the future sought stabilization. Italy in this delicate phase is moving in a really witty way trying to be more active with the interlocutors who have real influence in [...]
read more