Mohammed Takala, head of Libya's Tripoli-based High State Council, has said the country is getting closer to holding presidential elections, according to the Russian state news agency RIA.
Mohammed Takala
Mohammed Takala, head of Libya's Tripoli-based High State Council, has said the country is getting closer to holding presidential elections, according to the Russian state news agency RIA.
Efforts to bring together Libya's rival factions to hold an election have been the main focus of diplomacy for years, but there has been little progress towards a vote since a 2020 ceasefire that paused most major warfare.
The HSC has a say in major political matters under the terms of a 2015 political agreement and has been negotiating with Libya's main parliament, the internationally recognised House of Representatives, which is based in the east.
(Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Two arms brokers arranged illegal deals to supply ex-Soviet surface-to-air missile systems to South Sudan and fighter jets to Libya during its civil war, British prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.
On the first day of his visit to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV delivered a message of democratic hope to a regime that has spent decades ensuring such hope goes nowhere.
Pope Leo criticized violations of international law by 'neocolonial' world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during an Africa tour, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church.
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