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)
Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the country in search of work or passage to Europe.
Human Rights Watch has accused an Abu Dhabi-based security company of recruiting Colombian private military contractors and deploying them to fight alongside Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) between 2024 and 2025, adding to what the rights group describes as a growing body of evidence of Emirati military support for the paramilitary group.
Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, restricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.
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