US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 07 Apr 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 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo/ 32 32 US calls for an end to fighting in Libya https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/us-calls-for-an-end-to-fighting-in-libya/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/us-calls-for-an-end-to-fighting-in-libya/ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to end his advance on the capital Tripoli. At least 21 people have died in four days of fighting that include an airstrike by the rebel Libyan National Army. The tougher line from Washington follows a call for peace from United Nations Secretary […]

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]]> US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar to end his advance on the capital Tripoli.

At least 21 people have died in four days of fighting that include an airstrike by the rebel Libyan National Army.

The tougher line from Washington follows a call for peace from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres who was visiting Libya when rebels began their advance on Tripoli.

The dissidents are supported by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

However the tenuous government of Fayez Al Serraj, seeking to restore order in Libya that has been tearing itself apart since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gadaffi,  is supported by the UN.

There are fears that its fall will drive Libya back into becoming a source of illegal immigration and an extremist hotspot on Europe’s southern flank

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