Ninety-five Libyan citizens have been arrested by South African authorities on suspicion of having received illegal military training in the country, Libyan channel The Libya Observer reported on July 27.
South African police reportedly carried out an early morning raid on a suspected military camp located on a farm in White River in the northern province of Mpumalanga.
Police said they found military tents, licensed firearms and other military equipment. They added that the operation to arrest the Libyans and close the camp began two days ago.
National police spokeswoman Atlanda Mate said the Libyans claimed they came to the country on study visas to train as security guards, but a police investigation showed they were receiving military training.
The Libyan Provisional Government of National Unity categorically denies any involvement or connection with Libyan citizens detained in South Africa.
In turn, Libya’s alternative government in the east of the country has promised to provide the detained Libyans with all necessary legal support.
Recall that the last large-scale military operations in Libya ceased in the summer of 2020. On 23 October 2020, a ceasefire agreement was signed in Geneva between the Libyan National Army (LNA) under the command of Khalifa Haftar and the forces of the Government of National Unity (GNU). The agreement provided for the holding of unified elections in the country on 24 December 2021, the creation of a single interim government for this period, the creation of a unified army and the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
As a result of the Geneva forum, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah became head of Libya’s Provisional Government of National Unity, but he failed to organize the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections, scheduled for December 24, 2021, and broke his promise not to run for Libya’s presidency.
The Libyan parliament withdrew its vote of confidence in Dbeibah’s government and elected a new Prime Minister of Libya. But despite this and the expiration of his powers and the expiration of the Geneva agreement, on the basis of which the Provisional Government of National Unity of Libya was formed, Dbeibah refuses to leave the post of prime minister and, with the support of armed groups loyal to him, continues to occupy the country’s capital, the city of Tripoli.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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