Libya Pledges to Lift Oil Blockades, but Putin’s Foot Soldiers May Be Monkey Wrench
Hundreds of mercenaries with the Russian paramilitary body that is widely believed to be the de facto private army of President Putin, the Wagner Group, are operating in Libya.

The oilfield blockades that have dogged Libya, causing the OPEC member’s crude oil exports to fall, are soon to end — if the country’s oil point man is to be believed. The new chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation, Farhat Bengdara, was quoted in the Financial Times as saying he expects there to be “good news about this next week,” but the web of competing strategic interests in the North African country may prove tough to untangle in such a short time frame.
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