On January 19, participants of the Berlin conference on Libya called on the United Nations to facilitate ceasefire talks. "In Berlin and in Moscow, Haftar did not sign the prepared and agreed communique. Alongside calls for a ceasefire, participants at the Berlin peace conference urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on those who would breach any truce agreement. After the ouster and assassination of then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country was plunged into political turmoil. Today, Libya is divided between two centers of power � an elected parliament in the country's east, supported by Haftar's LNA, and the UN-backed Tripoli-based GNA in the west.

Source: Libya Today January 28, 2020 09:11 UTC