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Allegations are there that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a terror cell that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of the National Unity, GNU, to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country.

According to the report of Guardian, The Guardian, and Reuters news agency, Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army, LNA, has increasingly been seen by United States as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial, and political institutions.

But a round of drone attacks in August worsened the situation.

Electricity blackouts in the west of the country putting intense popular pressure on the GNU led by the Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.

I know there's been some recent moves to try to consolidate things under the National Oil Company, try to bring the central bank back into some kind of east-west merger in a sense.

But where do things stand? The LNA, the Libyan National Army under Haftar seems to control most of the oil fields, a lot of the terminals and exports.

export facilities on the coast are, I would assume, divided.

But where do things sort of stand in that arena?

The report also warned of the possibility that there could be up to 100 more such mass burial sites.

Mr Magango also said that Al-Qaniyat's integration into the former government of National Accord and later the Libyan National Army had also been a significant barrier to accountability and justice.

UN aid teams have reached a tentative agreement in Gaza for humanitarian pauses.

to allow 640,000 children to be vaccinated after the first outbreak of the virus in 25 years, the UN World Health Organization, WHO, said on Friday.

THE TALE OF TWO LIBYAS Okay, so technically, Libya is divided in two, but like all things in the Middle East and North Africa, there's an added layer of complexity that we have to account for.

In the West, there's the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, known as the Government of National Unity, and in the East, there's the breakaway faction under Haftar, based in the city of Tobruk, named, rather strategically, the Libyan National Army.

But each of those rival governments secures its legitimacy by relying on another faction.

The Triple E government relies on the High Council of State, basically a legislative body that's supposed to give legitimacy to the Triple E government, because in essence, the Triple E government functions as a dictatorship.

Take the two men at the head of the Libyan factions, Khalifa Haftar, of course, but also his rival, Abdul Hamid Dubeva.

Haftar's reputation is notorious internationally, and for good reason.

He and his Libyan national army have routinely engaged in atrocities, including severe torture of dissidents and enemy fighters, extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate attacks against civilians, the abuse and even enslavement of migrants who travel north through Libya to reach Europe.

DeBaber, meanwhile, has also been credibly accused of the routine use of torture and extrajudicial killings, as well as the exploitation, mistreatment, and starvation of migrants and the suspicious deaths of political opponents and journalists.