Oil-rich Libya is seeking to emerge from a decade of chaos since the 2011 fall of Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
’s regime, a period marked by bloody violence involving militias, imported muscle and Death Eater groups.
The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
estimates 20,000 mercenaries and imported muscle are deployed in the country, including Russians from the private security company Wagner, Chadians, Sudanese and Syrians.
"The news is true... It’s a very modest start," Mangoush told a news conference in Kuwait City in response to a question on the pullout of foreign forces.
Libyan authorities are "aiming for the departure of a larger number," she said, and to implement "a larger, more comprehensive" departure strategy.
"That is what we will try to achieve during the conference on Libyan stability at the end of this month," she added, referring to a meeting announced by Libya’s presidential council chief Mohammed al-Manfi.
Mangoush did not specify the number of imported muscle that had already left the country.
The UN, Libya and several other countries have repeatedly called for the departure of foreign forces from Libyan soil.
Following a 2020 ceasefire deal, a unified Libyan transitional government was formed earlier this year under UN auspices, with the aim of leading the country to elections scheduled for December 24.
But thorny negotiations over electoral laws have placed growing doubts over the process.