The spokesman for the Libyan Army’s Sirte-Jufra Operations Room, Abdelhadi Drah said one mercenary fighter from Sudanese Janjaweed – fighting for Khalifa Haftar – was killed Friday in Sirte by the residents.

An unexploded ordnances on Friday killed one person and wounded another in the city of Tarhouna southeast of Tripoli, a source from the city has confirmed.

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When Colonel Naji al-Garabli pushes the detonator, dirt, smoke and sand punch up into the air. A stomach-rattling boom shakes the ground.

At least 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries are in Libya causing a “serious crisis” as weapons continue pouring into the war-ravaged North African nation, a United Nations official warned on Wednesday.

The legal counsel of the Sudanese nationals scammed by UAE firm “Black Shield”, Omar Al-Abed, said Tuesday they were preparing to file lawsuits with regional and international courts against ten persons from the UAE, Sudan and Libya over human trafficking.

The US Department of Defence has indicated that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner mercenaries operating in Libya. The Pentagon report could have a serious impact on Washington’s relations with the Gulf State.

The Defense Department’s inspector general found that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner Group mercenaries—just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars worth of arms.

Libya’s security sector has become virtually unrecognizable from what it was a decade ago owing to the transformations brought about since the 2011 revolution. This evolution has implications on any attempts to usher in short-term and interim security arrangements as well as longer-term security sector reform (SSR) efforts.

Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and the Sudanese Janjaweed forc es are still flooding into the city of Sirte to bolster the forces of Haftar, the Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation said Wednesday.