The Libyan army announced on Monday that it had monitored the military movements of an armed convoy belonging to the retired general, Khalifa Haftar, near the Shweref area, southeast of Tripoli, in violation of the ceasefire agreement.

This came in a statement published by the Media Center for Operation Volcano Anger on its Twitter page.

The center said that yesterday evening, Monday, the movement of "armed vehicles belonging to the militia of war criminal Haftar, supported by Russian mercenaries, was monitored on their way east to Al-Shwerf."

The statement indicated that the armed convoy consisted of 62 armed vehicles, 3 trucks loaded with ammunition, and two mobile air defense systems (Pantsir S1) anti-artillery missiles on board the chassis of a German-made truck.

The statement considered that this move represents a contradiction to the 5 + 5 ceasefire agreement signed in Geneva at the end of last October.

These developments coincided with the decision of interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba to postpone a visit to the east of the country, which was scheduled for Monday.

Dabaiba spokesman Mohamed Hammouda said the visit was postponed, without giving details.

The division persists

The postponement highlights the continuing division between the two camps, one of which is based in the capital, Tripoli, in the west of the country, while the other is located in Benghazi, in the east.

On February 13, the Libyan army announced the monitoring of warplanes of Wagner mercenaries supporting Haftar, over the sky of the city of Al-Jufra (southeast of Tripoli).

This comes despite the United Nations announcement on October 23, 2020, that the two parties to the conflict in Libya reached a ceasefire agreement, within the discussions of the Joint Military Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, which stipulated the withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries from Libya within 3 months from that date.

The Libyan crisis is witnessing a breakthrough in the recent period after the parties managed to ratify a unified transitional authority whose government is headed by Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, and whose presidential council is headed by Muhammad al-Manfi, and it took over its duties on March 16.

However, Haftar's forces are accused of continuing the military build-up and violating the ceasefire agreement.