Libya is once again in the headlines, following a recently announced plan by the UN’s special envoy to the North African country, Abdoulaye Bathily, to re-energize the stalled political process and bring to a decisive end a decade-long, extremely turbulent transitional period. Incumbent elites have repeatedly resisted attempts to reach an accord as it would be tantamount to
Just two weeks ago, the UN’s 10th special envoy in the past 11 years, Abdoulaye Bathily, acknowledged in a briefing to the Security Council an already well-known fact: There is no clear end in sight to Libya’s deadlock. It is an extremely frustrating, albeit inevitable assessment of the futility of a woefully managed international “peace” process that continues to resist