While the world is counting the masks and deaths of the corona-virus, Libya, a country of Tamazgha, is in the throes of a horrific civil war that has been raging and raging for nine years.
While the Western intervention in 2011 has succeeded in putting an end to Gaddafi’s bloody dictatorship, it has broken all systems of power to rebuild a state based on the realities of Libyan society.
Arab-Islamic colonization has made Libya today a place where the objectives and actions of organizations claiming to be radical Islam, the main regional players (Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) and major powers, first and foremost Italy, France and Russia, are being confronted.
Ironically, the other three North African countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco), also colonies of Arab-Islamism, powerless, seem neither interested nor concerned by what is happening in their immediate neighbor.
Apart from the Amazigh fiber of Kabylia, which is concerned about the fate of the brotherly peoples of Nefusa and Imlulen, a total blackout is observed in the rest of the three countries. The patriotic Amazigh fiber, the only one capable of defending the territories of Tamazgha with dignity, is completely paralyzed by the Hallal Arab-Islamist colonization, making these countries easy playgrounds and prey for foreign invasions from all sides.
The Mediterranean, the crossroads between Asia, Europe and Africa, has always been a central base of rivalry and conflict, and a priority region in world politics.
Italy with ENI, France with Total and Russia with Rosnef have very important interests in the production and exploration of Libyan oil.
Given their short common history and the proximity of their coasts, Italy considers Libya as its preserve. Italy has a special relationship with the Libyan Islamists who in turn protect ENI’s installations. This proximity has even prompted British Petroleum’s pragmatism to sell its market share to ENI in the hope of relaunching exploration in this promising area.
The Russian company Rosneft signed a cooperation agreement in 2017 with the Libyan national oil company for investments in the hydrocarbon sector. Russia, with its muscular and winning intervention in Syria, has succeeded in installing its army in the Mediterranean.
The French company Total owns the Libyan company Marathon Oil Libya Limited. In addition to economic interests, France sees a vital interest for its security in Libya. Indeed, France, a victim of radical Islam with more than 300 dead, is spreading in the Sahel where Islamist jihadists are still swarming, threatening 93 million French-speaking inhabitants who populate the five countries bordering the Sahel strip: Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. The Libyan crisis has opened the door to the South, which has become the royal road through which arms and ammunition looted from Qaddafi’s depots, caught in fighting between militias or supplied by Turkey and Qatar via the port of Misrata, held by militias affiliated to the Islamists, are transported.
Turkish interference in the Libyan conflict with the signing of the two agreements on the delimitation of maritime borders and military cooperation at a meeting in Istanbul on 27 November between Turkish President Erdogan and Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of the Libyan government in Tripoli, has only added to the scale of the civil war. Unable to defend himself, Sarraj found no better way to protect him than to turn to the former Ottoman settler. Erdogan immediately jumped at the chance to expand his ramifications in Libya and set foot in North Africa, two centuries after his Janissaries left. This succession of developments marked the expansion of Turkey’s influence in the central Mediterranean towards Libya and triggered geopolitical transformations in the North African region.
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