However, when you have local politicians with foreign agendas and loyalties, it makes it difficult to unite around one shared goal.” “In a country like Libya, achieving security and political stability requires the unity of the different major political players. “The main problem that stands against Libya’s stability is foreign interference and the existence of foreign forces and mercenaries fighting on its soil,” Dalia Al-Aqidi, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., told Arab News. By sponsoring their preferred side in the conflict, experts say external actors have periodically added fuel to the fire. Thus, just as Libya seemed to be making progress toward peace and stability, it again risks sliding into civil war, with fierce clashes breaking out between rival factions in the capital Tripoli.įoreign involvement is arguably the main reason why Libya has been unable to move on and establish a unified, stable administration. The provisional body, established to replace two rival administrations that had long fought each other, is supposed to carry the country into national elections scheduled for December 24.
21, Libya’s eastern-based parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the country’s Government of National Unity, which was installed earlier this year. A decade on from the protests that led to his downfall, the oil-rich country is wracked by political instability, violence, economic chaos, and, since last year, an explosion in COVID-19 infections. DUBAI: Since dictator Muammar Gaddafi was toppled from power in 2011, Libya has been mired in chaos.
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