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April 5, 2019

Rogue Libyan General Advances on Tripoli
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The United Nations Security Council has called an emergency meeting on
Libya, after a renegade army commander ordered his forces to advance on
the capital Tripoli. The advance by the Benghazi-based Libyan National
Army threatens to topple Libya's U.N.-backed government. The rebel force
is reportedly better armed and controls a town just 60 miles from the
capital. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres appealed Thursday for a
ceasefire.

Secretary-General António Guterres: "I want to make a very strong
appeal, an appeal for all military movements to stop, an appeal for
containment, calm, de-escalation, both military and political and verbal
de-escalation."

Libya has been plagued by factional fighting since a U.S.-led NATO
intervention in 2011 toppled longtime authoritarian leader Muammar
Gaddafi.


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