Fighting broke out Tuesday in the capital of war-battered Libya between backers of two rival administrations, threatening renewed chaos in the oil-rich North African countryTripoli, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th May, 2022 ) :Fighting broke out Tuesday in the capital of war-battered Libya between backers of two rival administrations, threatening renewed chaos in the oil-rich North African country. Libya has been ruled by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, but he has been challenged by Fathi Bashagha, who was appointed as rival premier in February by the parliament in the country's eastern city of Tobruk. Violence flared after his press service announced "the arrival of the prime minister of the Libyan government, Mr Fathi Bashagha, accompanied by several ministers, in the capital Tripoli to begin his work there". In February, the parliament in Tobruk designated former interior minister Bashagha as prime minister. The creation of two governments echoes Libya's troubled period of rival administrations between 2014 and 2021, when the oil-rich nation was ripped apart by civil war.

Source: Libya Today May 17, 2022 09:36 UTC