Libya's political jostling is intensifying as the parliament prepares to announce a new prime minister despite the incumbent's refusal to step down https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-pm-says-he-will-defy-parliament-move-replace-him-2022-02-08, further undermining an already faltering U.N.-backed peace process. The manoeuvring comes after December's collapse of a planned election https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/why-libyas-election-has-collapsed-what-comes-next-2021-12-22 that was the centrepiece of the peace push, with rival factions now competing over control of government and what will happen next. ARMED FORCESIn Tripoli, Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah of the Government of National Unity (GNU) has pushed a populist policy of social and project spending during his year in office. His critics accuse him of corruption, which he denies, while rival factions and leaders who had initially supported the GNU have come to see him as a threat to their own standing. It would then task him with naming a new interim government, a process likely to involve lengthy horsetrading among rival factions for position.

Source: Libya Today February 09, 2022 17:17 UTC