Context

• Recently Libya’s UN- recognised government accused rival military commander Khalifa Haftar of seeking to stage a new coup after he claimed to have a “mandate” from the people to govern the country and announces taking over Tripoli from the militias of Haftar.

About Tripoli

• Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya.
• It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay.