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London to step up pressure on Russian and Turkish paramilitary outfits to withdraw from Libya

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AFRICA

Security, Moscow's way into Africa

Russia's influence on the continent is spreading in step with rising instability in many African countries and tensions between France and many of its former colonies. This trend is bolstered by the presence of the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group close to Vladimir Putin. Its mercenaries have intervened in Libya and Mozambique and are now offering their services in West and Central Africa. Driven by the Kremlin, Russia's security breakthrough in Africa is also backed by the defence ministry, serving Moscow's geopolitical interests, and paving the way for Russia to move into other fields on the continent. [...]

The British Foreign Office is planning to organise a major conference on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of armed groups active in Libya. [...] (207 words)

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Diplomacy

UNSMIL chief Jan Kubis seeks security affairs deputy

The UN mission's new number two will oversee the disarmament and reintegration of militia forces as well as security sector reform, two crucial processes that for now are going nowhere. [...]

LIBYA 31/05/2021

Draghi and Macron aim to stop migrants reaching Mediterranean

The two leaders will present a common migration strategy at the next European Council meeting. It will focus on transit countries, notably Tunisia, Libya and the Sahel states. [...]

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron on May 18, 2021 in Paris. © Blondet Eliot/Abaca Press/Reuters

LIBYA Defence Business 27/05/2021

EU delegation returns to Tripoli with no permanent security provider

The European Union has not yet picked a company to provide security for its representation in Libya over the long term. It has however awarded temporary contracts to the French company GEOS, the Maltese firm Sentinel Atlas and Septimius Security, an Irish-Libyan outfit. [...]

LIBYA Business 27/05/2021

Expertise France resumes service in Libya and tends to its local networks

Relocated to Tunis in 2014, the Libya branch of Expertise France, the French technical cooperation agency, is seeking to piece back together its networks in the country. [...]

LIBYA Diplomacy 10/05/2021

Brussels and Ankara tussle over Libyan coastguard

The European Union wants to strengthen its training of the Libyan coastguard, which has been somewhat neglected in recent years, and to stop Turkey using its links with Tripoli to increase migratory pressure on the continent's doorstep. [...]

Migrants are seen on the deck of a Libyan Coast Guard's ship in Tripoli, Libya, on 29 April 29 2021. © Hamza Turkia/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

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