World Health Organisation says 47 have been killed and 181 wounded in the battle for Tripoli as Islamist militants kill three and kidnap another in Fuqaha
Military vehicles of Misrata forces, under the protection of Tripoli's forces, are seen near a military camp in Tripoli, Libya April 9, 2019. REUTERS/HANI AMARA
The eastern Libyan National Army forces of Khalifa Haftar — a former general in ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s army — seized the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier in 2019 before heading towards Tripoli earlier in April. Far south of Tripoli, IS claimed responsibility for attacking the town of Fuqaha, where residents said three people were killed and another kidnapped.
Libya’s potential slide into civil war threatens to disrupt oil supplies, boost migration across the Mediterranean to Europe and scupper UN plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in east and west.
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