Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha on Friday denied a U.N. claim that he made an armed entrance Tripoli on May 17. Rosemary A. DiCarlo, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, made claim during a speech before the U,N. “In the early hours of 17 May, Mr. Bashagha entered Tripoli, backed by armed groups,” DiCarlo told state members. “She falsely claimed that I entered Tripoli with armed convoys, which is not true,” he said via Twitter on Friday. He said Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli, a militia leader loyal to Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, was part of the effort to attack him after he entered Tripoli.

Source: Libya Today May 28, 2022 09:13 UTC