Ankara Saturday vowed to launch a probe into the smuggling of a shipment of arms to Libya, which is under UN arm embargo. The shipment was coming from Turkey. The discovery raised eyebrows in the oil-rich North African county and the UN mission in Libya called on the global body to investigate the shipment. Libya has been since 2011 under UN arm embargo following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi ousted in a NATO-backed revolution. UN experts have documented deliveries of weapons from destinations including Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates despite the ban on weapons imports, The New Arab reports.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 24, 2018 13:18 UTC