Factional warfare in Libya is pushing it
“very close to the point of no return”, the United Nations special envoy
to the country has said as efforts to bring about a ceasefire and
political dialogue bear little progress, Al Jazeera reports.
“I
think this country is running out of time. The danger for the country
is that in the past weeks we are getting very close to the point of no
return,” Bernadino Leon told reporters on Tuesday.
Leon
launched an initiative to bring together the warring sides for a
dialogue and ceasefire last month, but fighting worsened in the past two
weeks in Benghazi as well as in western Libya.
The North African country
has had two governments and parliaments since a militia group from the
western city of Misrata seized the capital Tripoli in August, setting up
its own cabinet and assembly.
The
internationally recognised government of Prime Minister Abdullah
al-Thinni had to move 1,000 kilometres to the east where the elected
House of Representatives is also now working, effectively splitting the
desert nation.
UN-brokered talks
suffer from the absence of armed factions from Misrata or a rival
militia from the western city of Zintan that battled Misrata forces in
Tripoli for more than a month over the summer before being forced out of
the capital.
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