{"id":222880,"date":"2026-02-05T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-african-union-condemns-killing-of-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-calls-for-calm-and-accountability-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:00","slug":"libya-african-union-condemns-killing-of-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-calls-for-calm-and-accountability-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-african-union-condemns-killing-of-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-calls-for-calm-and-accountability-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: African Union Condemns Killing of Sa\u00eff Al-Islam Gaddafi, Calls for Calm and Accountability in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed deep concern following reports of the killing of Libyan political figure Sa\u00eff al-Islam Gaddafi on 3 February 2026 in Zintan City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement issued by the African Union, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf strongly condemned the violent act, warning that it risks further destabilizing Libya at a time when the country is striving toward a credible and inclusive political transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">He described the killing as a serious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050149.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 Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed deep concern following reports of the killing of Libyan political figure Sa\u00eff al-Islam Gaddafi on 3 February 2026 in Zintan City. In a statement issued by the African Union, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf strongly condemned the violent act, warning that it risks further destabilizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222881,"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":[13948,258,256,4380,10621,6137,9553,7610,8263,7805,4711,892,257,10837,254,6156],"class_list":["post-222880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-alislam","tag-calls","tag-calm","tag-condemns","tag-gaddafi","tag-killing","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-saif","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"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\/222880","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=222880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}