There's also the "elephant in the room," notes Mohammed Ali Abdallah, special envoy to the U.S. for Libya’s Government of National Unity. What he's saying: In an interview with Axios, Abdallah acknowledged that Libya's recent history is littered with transitional governments that overstayed their mandates while failing to deliver. That leaves just one major external player that "actually benefits from an ongoing crisis in Libya," Abdallah says: Russia, whose interests are represented by mercenaries from the Wagner Group. Between the lines: The UN and Libya's own foreign minister have called on all foreign fighters to leave Libya. Abdallah notes that many senior officials in the Biden administration witnessed Libya's collapse while serving in Barack Obama's administration.

Source: Libya Today May 24, 2021 23:49 UTC