Libyan PM calls for security meeting over weapons

ADDIS ABABA - Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib called on Sunday for a regional security conference to tackle a proliferation of weapons by exiled supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa's Sahel region like Boko Haram and al-Qaida access to large weapons caches, said a UN report released on Thursday."(There is) still a real threat from some of the armed remnants of the former regime who escaped outside the country and still roam freely. This is a threat for us, for neighboring countries and our shared relations," Keib told African Union leaders in Addis Ababa."My country calls for a regional security conference in Libya of interior and defense ministers of neighboring countries," he told the summit, the first since Gaddafi's death last year.