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Libya
Dabaiba puts brakes on election process to consternation of West

Libyan prime minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba attending a conference on Libya on 12 November 2021. © Yoan Valat/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Following the official announcement of Khalifa Haftar and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's presidential bid, Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba appears to be increasingly in favour of pushing back the elections, a prospect that goes against promises made in Paris and has not gone down well in Western capitals. [...]

Published on 19.11.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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