Omar Zniber, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office in Geneva, stressed in his speech on behalf of a group of 40 countries that support the Kingdom’s sovereignty over its southern provinces, today, Tuesday, during the work of the second day of the sixty-third session of the UN Human Rights Council, the need to protect the interaction of states with the Human Rights Council and with the High Commissioner for Human Rights from any political exploitation.
In statements reported by the Moroccan “Hespress” website, the Moroccan diplomat explained that the Sahara issue “is a political dispute addressed by the Security Council, which confirms that true autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty can be the most realistic and workable outcome.” Zniber continued, explaining: “Accordingly, the group supports the implementation of Security Council Resolution No. 2797 adopted on October 31, 2025, which aims to revive the political process, by organizing negotiations that include the four parties specified in it, on the basis of the Moroccan autonomy initiative, with the aim of reaching a final political solution acceptable to all parties to this conflict.”
Tensions are escalating between the head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Muhammad al-Manfi, and the head of the interim “national unity” government, Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba, so that the formal alliance produced by the “Geneva Political Dialogue Forum” in 2021 turns into a situation approaching a clash. With the emergence of the “American initiative,” which some believe has reshuffled the cards and reshaped the balance of influence, in conjunction with the understandings of the “4+4” committee, the partnership between the two sides in Tripoli has entered its deepest crisis, amid new political arrangements that may lead to the formation of an authority that excludes exile from the “next equation.”
Ali Al-Takbali, a member of the Libyan House of Representatives, believes that the relationship prevailing in the current scene is “governed more by interests than by a real political alliance.” He told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Geneva Forum “formed the current executive authority; But now there is an international trend, with American support, to form a new authority that brings together the most prominent forces in the east and west of the country.”
In turn, the director of the “Sadiq” Research Center, Anas Al-Qamati, said that Al-Manfi and Al-Dabaiba’s partnership “was imposed by political necessity,” and described their relationship as one of “the most complex relationships in Libya, even if it was dominated by apparent consensus.” Al-Qamati attributed the roots of the dispute to “a wide disparity in powers between them,” noting that the American initiative and the recent UN agreement made Al-Manfi the only party demanding his departure.
For his part, Jalal Harchaoui, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, highlighted “the imbalance of power between the two men,” noting that Dabaiba’s affiliation to the city of Misrata provided him with support from armed brigades and the ability to move financial resources, which made the balance of power clearly tilt in favor of the prime minister.
The United Nations and Libyan human rights activists condemned the storming of the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration’s service center in the capital, Tripoli, and demanded that the attackers against its employees be investigated and closed. The United Nations said, on Monday evening, that it “strongly condemns the repeated incidents that occurred at the headquarters of the service center,” stressing its commitment to cooperate with the Libyan authorities.
Citizens affiliated with the movement that rejects the “settlement of immigrants” stormed the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tripoli, expelled its employees and closed it by building a cement wall. Ahmed Abdel Hakim Hamza, head of the National Institution for Human Rights in Libya, called on the Attorney General to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of the raid, which he described as “criminal,” and to prosecute those involved and bring them to justice.
