{"id":198410,"date":"2025-05-19T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-escalating-conflict-in-tripoli-exposes-the-realities-of-false-stability-and-international-neglect-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:06:47","slug":"libya-escalating-conflict-in-tripoli-exposes-the-realities-of-false-stability-and-international-neglect-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-escalating-conflict-in-tripoli-exposes-the-realities-of-false-stability-and-international-neglect-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Escalating Conflict in Tripoli Exposes the Realities of False Stability &#8211; and International Neglect in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The killing of Abdelghani al-Kikli, an armed group commander, has triggered internal conflicts over power and influence, shattering the relative calm that has prevailed since 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">On Monday night, images circulated of Abdelghani al-Kikli, a powerful armed group commander from Tripoli, lying dead. Kikli, known popularly as &#8216;Ghneiwa&#8217;, had travelled to the Tekbali military camp on Monday to meet with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/killing-libya-militia-leader-sparks-deadly-clashes-tripoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armed group commanders<\/a> allied with Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dabaiba. The details of what&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505190005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Abdelghani al-Kikli, an armed group commander, has triggered internal conflicts over power and influence, shattering the relative calm that has prevailed since 2020. On Monday night, images circulated of Abdelghani al-Kikli, a powerful armed group commander from Tripoli, lying dead. Kikli, known popularly as &#8216;Ghneiwa&#8217;, had travelled to the Tekbali military camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,2444,17987,10481,7556,4337,4711,892,5972,257,7114,254,9185,897],"class_list":["post-198410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conflict","tag-escalating","tag-exposes","tag-false","tag-international","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-neglect","tag-news","tag-realities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stability","tag-tripoli"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}