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· Politicians from rival administrations recently had the latest round of peace talks in Morocco
· This talk had taken place ahead of the major parleys between the two groups scheduled to take place on November 9.
It appears that peace is limping back to trouble -torn Libya. Politicians from rival administrations recently had the latest round of peace talks in Morocco. They met at the coastal town of Bouznika, south of Morocco’s capital Rabat. This talk had taken place ahead of the major parleys between the two groups scheduled to take place on November 9.
The parley are part of a permanent UN-backed ceasefire agreement signed in Switzerland last month between the two warring factions mediated by the United Nations to pave the way towards a political solution to the country’s endemic problems.
The oil rich Libya, which has the largest proven crude oil reserve in Africa, has been deeply affected by the internal dissensions and violence since the overthrow of the earlier dispensation of autocratic Moamer Kadhaf in 2011, a move backed by NATO. The meeting took place in the coastal town of Bouznika, south of Morocco’s capital Rabat, ahead of the meeting in Tunisia on November 9. It is likely to pave the way towards a political solution to the country’s ongoing c0onflict.
Libya, with Africa’s largest proven crude oil reserves, has been rocked by conflict for nearly a decade, since the overthrow and killing of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Armed groups divided between two administrations that have been bitterly-opposed to each other – were making life difficult for citizens. This has considerably affected the progress of the country. The two groups are the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in the capital Tripoli and a rival administration in the east backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar. The two groups have returned to the negotiating table in September in UN-supported talks. The negotiations were held in Morocco, Egypt and Switzerland. The agenda of the November 9 meeting to be held in Morocco is still not out, while the negotiators are pushing parallel efforts to broker peace, with the military section of talks taking place this week for the first time on Libyan soil.
