Mercenaries who withdrew outside of Sirte for a vote of confidence of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s government are back in the city, a Libyan official said on Saturday. Abdulhadi Dirah, the spokesman for the Sirte and Jufra Operation Department, told that the Wagner security company and Sudanese Janjaweed militia were taken 4 miles (6 kilometers) outside the city. However, 12 buses carrying militia forces returned to the al-Ghardabiya base in Sirte and were deployed to the headquarters of Al Calid. Dirah said that the
return of mercenaries meant a violation of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission agreement.
