GENEVA — Libya's warring parties have returned to negotiations aimed at salvaging a fragile cease-fire in the North African country after they had suspended talks earlier this week, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday. The current truce was brokered by Russia and Turkey on Jan. 12. And while their representatives were in Geneva, forces of military commander Khalifa Hifter stepped up their attacks on the Libyan capital on Tuesday with shelling of the port. The country's National Oil Company said then that the strikes hit close to a highly explosive liquefied petroleum gas tanker moored there. Tuesdays' strikes appeared to be the first such attack on the port since Hifter's forces began their siege of the city almost a year ago.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 20, 2020 20:15 UTC