The UN envoy for Libya has called for immediate action to cut off arms flows to the warring sides in Libya, warning that the ongoing battle for Tripoli was “just the start of a long and bloody war”. “The violence on the outskirts of Tripoli is just the start of a long and bloody war on the southern shores of the c, imperiling the security of Libya’s immediate neighbours and the wider Mediterranean region,” Salame said. Without immediate measures to stop the flow of arms, “Libya will descend into civil war which could potentially lead to a Hobbesian all-against-all state of chaos or partition of the country”, he said. In recent weeks, Salame said there has been an average of five night-time raids on GNA positions by “unknown aircraft”. The UN Security Council has imposed an open-ended arms embargo on Libya in February of the same year.

Source: Libya Today May 22, 2019 11:23 UTC