Marzuq Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/marzuq/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Marzuq Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/marzuq/ 32 32 Drone strike kills at least 42 in southern Libya https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/drone-strike-kills-at-least-42-in-southern-libya/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/drone-strike-kills-at-least-42-in-southern-libya/ Libyan rebel leader Khalifa Haftar is being blamed for a drone strike that killed at least 42 people in the south of the country. The European Union has condemned the attack and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Khalifa Haftar’s so-called Libyan National Army launched a drone strike on a migrant centre […]

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]]> Libyan rebel leader Khalifa Haftar is being blamed for a drone strike that killed at least 42 people in the south of the country.

The European Union has condemned the attack and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

Khalifa Haftar’s so-called Libyan National Army launched a drone strike on a migrant centre in Tripoli in June that killed at least 44 people.

Yesterday’s target appears to have been a meeting of more than 200 local dignitaries in the  southern city of Marzuq.

Local authorities have appealed for humanitarian aid, saying the hospital is unable to cope with the more than 60 seriously injured people.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is being urged to withdraw his support for Haftar. 

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