Wednesday, 5 May, 2021 - 05:30
Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohammed al-Menfi meets with a Turkish delegation in Tripoli on Monday. Cairo – Khaled Mahmoud
Differences “as clear as day” have become apparent between Libyan Presidential Council, chaired by Mohammed al-Menfi, and the Government of National Unity (GNU), headed by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, over the future of relations with Turkey.
The differences emerged during a surprise visited carried out by a senior Turkish delegation to Tripoli this week, informed sources from the GNU told Asharq Al-Awsat. The delegation included Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
The sources said that Dbeibeh, Foreign Minister Najla al-Manqoush and Menfi are divided over how to deal with Turkey and persuade it to withdraw its Syrian mercenaries from Libya.
Tunisia is facing a constitutional crisis with political depth May 5, 2021 at 1:50 pm | Published in: Africa, Article, Opinion, Tunisia
Tunisians cast their vote at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Tunis, Tunisia on October 6, 2019 [Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency] May 5, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Tunisians and observers of their democratic experience are asking where the country is heading. Is there, they wonder, an implementable solution to the crisis involving the three major institutional heads: the head of state, the head of the government, and the parliamentary speaker?
The roles and responsibilities of the positions are detailed in the 2014 Tunisian Constitution. Questions need to be asked about them. Other issues are related to the overall political situation in the country and the activities of actors linked to parties and unions.
Libyan Foreign Minister Urges Turkey to Withdraw Fighters
” width=”820″>Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at the podium with Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Atiya Abdul Hafeez Al-Qatrani following their meeting in March. Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On Monday, the Foreign Minister of Libya, Najla al-Manqoush, called for the departure of all foreign forces and mercenaries from its soil as it looks forward to the elections that will take place later this year.
The foreign minister of Libya’s interim government specifically urged the nation of Turkey to implement UN Security Council resolutions which demand the return of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya after its protracted civil unrest.
April 30, 2021
Following the yearslong instability that has taken a heavy toll on the influx of Egyptian workers in Libya, their numbers are expected to exceed 2 million by 2024, sources in the overseas recruitment field in Egypt told Al-Monitor.
Hamdi Imam, chairman of the Division of Recruitment Companies at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of Globo Human Resource, a recruitment agency for overseas jobs, told Al-Monitor that Egyptian workers will take part in the reconstruction of Libya where the civil war has wreaked havoc for an entire decade.
Egypt and Libya agreed April 20 to allow Egyptian workers to return to the Libyan labor market. The agreement came during the visit of Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly to the Libyan capital Tripoli, accompanied by a delegation of 11 ministers.
April 28, 2021
The prime minister of Libya s Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, led a large delegation during Dbeibeh s visit to Turkey on April 12. The visiting officials took part in the first meeting of the recently formed High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council between the two countries.
At least five memoranda of understanding in economics, reconstructions, trade, and diplomacy were signed during the high-level talks in Ankara in another sign of the closeness of the two countries.
The size of the delegation and the commitments made by both sides provided a clear contrast with Dbeibeh s visit to the United Arab Emirates the previous week.