The U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, will leave her post on Sunday, July 31, announced the United Nations on Friday. “As you know, we do have a functioning UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The short extension was as a result of Russian objections who insist that a new UNSMIL head is chosen before it agrees to a longer extension. This led the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to appoint Stephanie Williams as his Special Representative in the meanwhile. The lack of an UNSMIL head has left a vacuum which analysts say has contributed to the current Libyan political and military crisis.

Source: Libya Today July 30, 2022 10:41 UTC