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African Union to organise national reconciliation conference for Libya
FirstpostAddis Ababa, Ethiopia: The African Union is organising a national reconciliation conference for Libya, AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat told AFP on Sunday, the latest bid to restore stability to the conflict-wracked nation. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday issued a new call for the complete withdrawal of foreign fighters and mercenaries, and said elections were the only “credible pathway to legitimate, unified governance”. “The absence of elections worsens economic insecurity, heightens political instability, risks renewed conflict, and raises the spectre of partition.” Haftar used fighters from Chad, Sudan, Niger and Russia’s Wagner mercenary group in his failed attempts to take Tripoli between April 2019 and June 2020. The so-called “5+5” Joint Military Commission, which brings together representatives of both eastern and western Libya, has been working to guarantee the withdrawal of foreign fighters as part of a ceasefire signed in October 2020.
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