By Lansana Gberie
As Libya
crisis escalates, the UN and the AU search for solutions.
Perhaps no
major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis
in Libya .
For example, although the New York Times in September 2017
published a total of seven articles mentioning Libya , only one of them touched on
the violence ripping it apart. Even the Times’ gesture merely highlighted
the latest permutation of the US
government’s foreign military decisions.
The
article, by Eric Schmitt, cited the Pentagon’s Africa Command and stated that
the United States military had carried out a half-dozen “precision strikes” on
an Islamic State training camp in Libya, killing 17 militants in the first
American air strike in “the strife-torn North African nation” since Donald Trump
was inaugurated as president.