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Spotlight | Libya
French security companies target Benghazi

The closer links which have been forged recently between eastern Libyan strong man Khalifa Haftar and France (MC 1264) are opening up new prospects for French private security companies. It is for this reason that the French foreign ministry, headed [...]

Published on 26.10.2017 at 03:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Haftar meets Macron secretly in Paris

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Jean-Yves Le Drian with Federica Mogherini.

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Security Side protects French firms

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UNSMIL freezes its private sector security contracts

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Ghassan Salame set to leave UNSMIL

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Mohamed Barghouti wants to line the Ourfellas up behind Haftar

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Erys Group switches partners in Tripoli

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