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Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 12:30
Overview of the first day of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum at an undisclosed location, Switzerland. (UN via Reuters) Asharq Al-Awsat
UN sponsored talks produced a new interim government for Libya on Friday aimed at resolving a decade of chaos, division and violence by holding national elections later this year.
Mohammed al-Menfi, a former diplomat from Benghazi, will head a three-man presidency council, while Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, from the western city of Misrata, will head the government as prime minister.
Libya has been engulfed in chaos since a NATO-backed intervention ended Moammar al-Gaddafi’s rule in 2011 and has been split since 2014 between warring administrations in the west and east.
Sunday, 13 December, 2020 - 07:00
Speaker Aguila Saleh. (Reuters file photo) Cairo - Khalid Mahmoud
The east-based Libyan parliament renewed on Saturday its call on members to convene on Monday at the legislature’s constitutional headquarters in Benghazi.
The move is believed to be an attempt to thwart efforts to oust Speaker Aguila Saleh ahead of a parliament meeting scheduled for the city of Ghadames in the west.
The scheduling of the meeting in Ghadames had revealed divisions among the Benghazi parliament.
This is the second time in a week that the lawmakers are asked to meet in Benghazi. A meeting was convened last week, but the majority of members did not attend. They instead took part in a parliament meeting in Ghadames.