Donald Trumps ally Erik Prince violated arms embargo in Libya: UN report

Former US president Donald Trump’s ally
and private security contractor Erik Prince has violated a United Nations arms
embargo in Libya, AFP reported US media sources as saying with reference to a
report by UN investigators. The report, confidential in nature, pushed to the
UN Security Council and obtained by media sources, states that Prince had supplied
foreign mercenaries and weapons to Khalifa Haftar, a strongman in the country.

Haftar fought to overthrow the
UN-backed government in Libya in 2019.

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Prince, a former Navy SEAL and
brother to Trump’s education secretary Betsy Davos, drew significant clout and alongside,
quite a degree of enmity from various groups, with his contractors accused of
killing Iraqi civilians in 2007.

The four convicted for the crime were pardoned by Trump in 2020.

The recent $80 million operation that
the mercenaries and weapons were supplied for, aimed at wiping out commanders
in Libya who were against Haftar, including those who are European citizens.

In light of the reports, Prince now expectedly
lies exposed to United Nation sanctions and a travel ban.

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The oil-rich North African nation has
been torn by conflicts since long, which started primarily after the North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-based forces, in 2011, toppled and
assassinated the country’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

The country continues to be ruled by
two separate administrations due to a split, one in Tripoli  by Government of National Accord (GNA), and
another by a second administration based in the eastern parts of the country and
backed by Haftar.