Cairo - Asharq Al-AwsatNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari recently warned that the chaos and spread of arms in Libya may negatively impact security in Africa as a whole. His remarks raised concerns among experts that the weapons smuggled into Libya, namely from Turkey, may fall in the wrong hands in Africa, especially terrorist groups. Some of these weapons may have already fallen in the hands of terrorist groups in neighboring countries, he added. The United Nations had previously estimated that some 29 million pieces of arms are possessed by militias and regular civilians in Libya. The majority of flights from Turkey to Libya have been made by airbuses that can carry as much as 37 tons in cargo, the report added.

Source: Libya Today January 12, 2021 07:30 UTC