Libya is still searching for stability a decade after the end of Muammar Gaddafi
The IndependentEfforts towards forming a united government in Libya are once again underway, on the tenth anniversary of the revolution which led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi amid declarations of a free and democratic future after four decades of dictatorship. “We only have a population of six million, all not just Sunnis, but Malikis: the communities get on with each other, people aren’t extremists, and we have oil,” Salwa Bugaighis, a lawyer and human rights campaigner told me in Benghazi in the early days of the revolt. One based in the east, backed by General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, and the other in the west – the capital, Tripoli – known as the Government of National Accord. The former officer in Gaddafi’s army was once seen as the emerging leader of Libya, thus following in the pattern of strongmen back in power in Arab Spring states, such as president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Egypt. Whether cultivating international support leads to the son of Muammar Gaddafi attempting to gain power remains to be seen: but the consequences of all that has unfolded from the 17 February revolution are still being played out in Libya.
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