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Spotlight | Libya
US-backed push for national unity boosts Haftar dynasty

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Massad Boulos, US President Trump's Africa adviser in Antalya, Turkey, in April 2026.
Massad Boulos, US President Trump's Africa adviser in Antalya, Turkey, in April 2026. © Orhan Cicek/Anadolu via AFP
Massad Boulos, US President Trump's Africa adviser in Antalya, Turkey, in April 2026.
Massad Boulos, US President Trump's Africa adviser in Antalya, Turkey, in April 2026. © Orhan Cicek/Anadolu via AFP

Massad Boulos, the US president's Africa adviser, is working to an accelerated timetable to unveil a Libyan reunification agreement that would elevate Saddam Haftar while further marginalising an increasingly isolated Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.

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