Libya has been mired in chaos and repeated rounds of conflict since a Nato-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. UN’s top Libya envoy Stephanie Williams on Saturday said: “Riots and acts of vandalism” were “totally unacceptable”. Earlier this week, the UN-mediated talks in Geneva aimed at breaking the deadlock between rival Libyan institutions failed to resolve key differences. But voting never took place due to several contentious candidacies and deep disagreements over the polls’ legal basis between the rival power centres in east and west. In Tripoli, hundreds came out to demand elections, fresh political leadership and an end to the chronic power cuts.

Source: Libya Today July 03, 2022 02:23 UTC