UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations special envoy to Libya on Monday said he was “angry” at foreign interference in the war-torn country, saying Libyans have “suffered enough”. Asked about Turkey’s decision to deploy troops in Libya to support the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, Salame answered that the “country is suffering too much from foreign interferences in different ways”. “There are enough mercenaries in Libya, so stop sending mercenaries, as it is the case right now,” he said, estimating the number of foreign fighters in the country to be in the “hundreds, probably thousands”. “Get out of the Libya nightmare,” said Salame, reminding members of an arms embargo on the country since 2011, when an uprising toppled longtime strongman Moamer Kadhafi. “Libya is not only a geopolitical story, it is also a human story.

Source: Libya Today January 06, 2020 22:41 UTC