By RFPosted on 20-11-2019Modified on 20-11-2019 at 11:15
At the Dakar Forum for Peace and Security in Africa, there was much talk of Libya. The crisis in this country is at the origin of terrorism in the Sahel has moved Senegalese President Macky Sall. The African representatives present in Dakar assure that there will be no lasting solutions in the region without change in Tripoli.
Successive speakers at the Dakar forum took Libya as a leitmotiv , saying that until the Libyan problem is resolved, efforts in the Sahel will be in vain.
In this Sahelo-Sahelian band, Libya has become a non-state hammering the Congo-Brazzaville foreign minister, Jean-Claude Gakosso. " You have entire cities like Misrata, which is a big metropolis and is held by jihadists of all stripes, militias who hold the city and are heavily armed. And so, as long as there is anarchy in this country, of course, we should not expect the situation to improve in the Sahel and perhaps beyond. "
How to organize general elections?
" We, at the level of the African Union, have clearly indicated that we can not go to general elections in this country, without first reconciling the citizens of this country," continues Jean-Claude Gakosso . If we do not associate the Libyans, all we will do is build on sand. "
General elections in Libya had already been envisaged in August 2018, but Jean-Claude Gakosso confessed, to organize elections in a context of civil war, is a real challenge.
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