{"id":202172,"date":"2025-07-11T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-un-urges-restraint-as-military-buildup-threatens-renewed-violence-in-tripoli\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:34:29","slug":"libya-un-urges-restraint-as-military-buildup-threatens-renewed-violence-in-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-un-urges-restraint-as-military-buildup-threatens-renewed-violence-in-tripoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: UN Urges Restraint As Military Buildup Threatens Renewed Violence in Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">With Libya once again teetering on the brink of violence, the United Nations has issued an urgent appeal for calm amid rising military tensions in and around the capital, Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/unsmil.unmissions.org\/unsmil-urges-immediate-de-escalation-tripoli%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> late on Wednesday (local time), the UN Support Mission in Libya (<a href=\"https:\/\/unsmil.unmissions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNSMIL<\/a>) expressed deep concern over continued reports of armed group mobilisation in densely populated areas, urging all parties to refrain from the use of force and inflammatory rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;<strong>The Mission strongly urges all parties to avoid any&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100100.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>With Libya once again teetering on the brink of violence, the United Nations has issued an urgent appeal for calm amid rising military tensions in and around the capital, Tripoli. In a statement late on Wednesday (local time), the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed deep concern over continued reports of armed group mobilisation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591543:99e1b5a358d9683c8751763976b8fcae:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,20015,4711,892,3318,257,6391,11095,254,10413,897,6810,2148],"class_list":["post-202172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buildup","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-renewed","tag-restraint","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-tripoli","tag-urges","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591543:99e1b5a358d9683c8751763976b8fcae:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202172","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=202172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}