UN experts: Donald Trump ally, UAE firms violated Libya sanctions
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Last Updated: Feb 21, 2021, 12:21 PM IST
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American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, violated the U.N. arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emirates-based companies and their top managers during an operation to help a rebel military commander take the capital Tripoli, U.N. experts said.
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American security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, violated the U.N. arms embargo against Libya along with three United Arab Emirates-based companies and their top managers during an operation to help a rebel military commander take the capital Tripoli, U.N. experts said. In a key section of a report to the U.N. Security Council obtained Saturday by The Associated Press, the panel of experts outlined a well-funded private military company operation called Project Opus designed to provide m
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Libya mired in chaos 10 years after Arab spring Duration: 02:23 Oil-rich Libya has been mired in chaos since dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed in a popular uprising backed by a NATO air campaign a decade ago. Its UN-recognised government is based in Tripoli, while eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar supports a parallel administration based in the east. A myriad of militias is also vying for control. FRANCE 24 s Catherine Norris Trent reports from Tripoli.
Oil-rich Libya has been mired in chaos since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was ousted and killed in a popular uprising backed by a NATO air campaign a decade ago.
Libya has Africa's largest proven oil reserves and only seven million people, but a decade of bloody conflict has left its economy shattered and its population mired in poverty.