ROME – Representatives from the city of Sabha, Libya, met in the Eternal City from Monday to Wednesday to work towards peace, with help from the community of Sant’Egidio.

 The Awlad Suleiman group and Tebu group of the city of Sabha -- the capital of Fezzan, a large, strategically important city in the south of Libya -- met to discuss peace arrangements around the community of Sant'Egidio.

 The two delegations, after a long and deep discussion, have underlined a declaration to re-establish a reciprocated trust and work together for peaceful harmony in Sabha, where, from the start of the crisis in Libya, there have been clashes and conflicts between the various groups of the population, causing a situation of great uncertainty and precarity.

 The delegates, thanking the Sant’Egidio community for their “long and constant work on the side of the people of the region of Fezzan”, have underlined their willingness to collaborate for the good of the community and encourage the dialogue for the resolution of all disagreements and discords.

 Sant’Egidio expresses their satisfaction with the agreement, regarding the city as the most important in the south of Libya, a key region for the peace of the whole of the country. The community has been involved in the cause for many years, working towards a solution for the Libyan crisis and in particular have had a prominent role in the stabilization of Fezzan.

 Some important steps were already being made in Nov. 2015 for the peace of Ubari, and, also with the help of Sant’Egidio, last June saw a humanitarian agreement which distributed medicine and sanitary materials to the seven principal hospitals in the south of Libya.  

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