In April, the Small Arms Survey published a briefing paper by Adam Hakan, titled ‘A Political Economy of Tripoli’s Abu Salim: The Rise of the Stability Support Apparatus as Hegemon’. The report looks at Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighbourhood as a ‘stronghold’ controlled by Abdelghani al-Kikli (better known as ‘Ghenewa’) and his Stability Support Apparatus (SSA). It further examines how Ghenewa’s methods have reshaped Abu Salim’s political economy, and how the hegemonic nature of this military consolidation has allowed the SSA to take on an outsized role in Libya’s broader political and economic spheres.
Read the full paper here.