Africa: As Haftar meets Sisi, GNA forces shoot down LNA fighter jet By Al Jazeera
General Khalifa Haftar, on the same day the renegade military leader held talks with Egypt’s president in Cairo.
In March 2016, GNA chief Fayez al-Sarraj arrived in Tripoli to set up a new government, but the Haftar-allied administration in the eastern city of Tobruk refused to recognise its authority. The situation remained “very tense” on Tripoli’s southern outskirts, Abdelwahed said, with the mass displacement constituting a “crisis” for authorities attempting to rehouse those forced to flee.The eruption of conflict has forced the UN to abandon its plans for a conference aimed at brokering an agreement to hold elections as part of a solution to the long-running crisis.
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