The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could sanction foreign actors supporting rival factions in Libya.
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Stephen Townsend, the commander of U.S. AFRICOM, arrived in Tripoli today, where he met with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and U.S. Special Envoy to Libya Richard Norland.
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Libyan bomb technicians took part in the “Raven’s Challenge”, which is an IED training exercise conducted by the U.S. AFRICOM at the Iowa National Guard Center.
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Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, requested an annual retainer of $2 million in exchange for recovering billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration, a report by Business Insider reveals.
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Libya needs to “move forward with the electoral framework to allow for Presidential and Parliamentary elections on December 24,” said Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Under Secretary of State, following a meeting with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush in New York yesterday.
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Richard Norland, the U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, commemorated on Saturday the September 11 attacks as well as the 2012 Benghazi attack, which led to the killing of former U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
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Former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashagha, signed late last month a new lobbying deal with the American firm BGR Group, which is worth 300,000 U.S. dollars in accumulated value, after his last contract with Brownstein Hyatt was abruptly terminated days after signing it for unknown reasons.
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“The whole world has a problem with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s candidacy for the presidential elections,” said Joey Hood, a U.S. State Department official, on Wednesday evening.
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The United States stated on Wednesday that it supports holding Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections as scheduled on December 24, after a leaked proposal, attributed to the American ambassador, drew controversy over suggesting election delay.
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Richard Norland, the U.S. Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, pitched the idea of involving the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Libya’s domestic financial affairs before the upcoming general elections, sources close to the Libyan National Army (LNA) told The Libya Update.
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