Libya Minister Wounded In Attempted Assassination
- 13.02.2025, 9:29
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The politician was shot in the leg.
On 12 February, the Libyan capital Tripoli was the scene of an armed attack on the country's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Adel Juma. The Minister was reportedly injured and hospitalised.
Currently, Juma's health condition is stable, reports Reuters. In turn, the BBC specifies that Juma received a bullet wound in the leg. Security agencies ‘have launched an investigation to identify the circumstances of the incident and search for the perpetrators’, the newspaper quotes the statement of the country's government.
In particular, the national unity government strongly condemned the attack, during which, as it defined it, ‘an unknown group shot directly at the car of the Minister of State’ Adel Juma.
In addition to declaring an investigation ‘to track down those responsible,’ the government said that ‘no attempt that threatens the security and stability of the state will be tolerated.’
Juma has been with the government since March 2021 and is in charge of coordination between the country's prime minister's office and other Libyan ministries. This particular official is considered the closest adviser to the country's prime minister, Abdel Hamid al-Dbeiba.
Assassination attempts against officials are common in African Libya amid general political instability. In particular, last April, there were armed attacks on the home and office of Ibrahim Dbeiba, the prime minister's nephew and adviser.
And in 2021, the interior minister of the then government, Fathi Bashaga, miraculously survived an assassination attempt that, like Juma's, took place on a highway in Tripoli.
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