Intel: US ambassador meets Libya's Hifter in Cairo
The US envoy is for pushing for cooperation with Libya's planned elections in December, State Department says.
US Ambassador Richard Norland met Wednesday with Libyan warlord Khalifa Hifter in Cairo in a continuing bid to help reunify the country after a decade of civil war.
Norland’s meeting with Hifter comes as preparations for Libya’s December parliamentary and presidential elections — which are to follow last year’s UN-backed cease-fire — are faltering.
Libya has been ravaged by intermittent civil war since the 2011 fall of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in an uprising backed by NATO and Arab Gulf governments.
The planned elections are the country’s first since a UN-backed ceasefire halted major fighting last year between Hifter’s forces and those aligned with internationally recognized government in Tripoli.
