Libya Takes Another Step Towards All-Out Civil War Amid Oil ‘Boom’

Libya Takes Another Step Towards All-Out Civil War Amid Oil ‘Boom’

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What was marketed as a fragile return to order in Libya has, once again, been exposed as a mirage. On May 12, Tripoli plunged into chaos following the reported killing of Abdul Ghani al-Kikli (aka “Gheniwa”), the commander who runs the powerful SSA (Stability Support Apparatus), one of Libya’s many militias whose patronage is necessary for either of the two clans that control the country’s east and west in a bitter rivalry.  The gunfire and shelling that started to tear through Tripoli on Monday wasn’t simply…

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