ISS TODAY: Resurrected Haftar scuttles UN and AU Libyan peace efforts By Peter Fabricius Pfabric
The report of my death was an exaggeration.” That was Mark Twain speaking but it could have been Khalifa Haftar. One year after he was widely reported gravely ill or even dead, the Libyan general stands larger than life at the gates of Tripoli.
Haftar’s rapid westward sweep has even more forcefully underscored the already apparent futility of the UN and African Union diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat met Haftar in Benghazi just two days before he launched his attack. Haftar had “agreed to co-operate in the preparations of the African Union-led National Conference on Reconciliation to be held in Addis Ababa in July 2019,” Faki announced then.
Silvia Colombo, head of the Mediterranean and Middle East Programme at the Italian Institute for International Affairs, fears that Haftar is more likely to want to go for broke and conquer Tripoli. She believes he has very little political constituency or skill and so will probably bet his future purely on military victory.
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