Libya’s Future: Uncertain, Despite a Political Agreement

Libya’s Future: Uncertain, Despite a Political Agreement

Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Journal Title: Middle East Policy
Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Publication Year: 2016

The signing of the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) in December 2015 and the subsequent establishment in March 2016 of a Government of National Accord (GNA), led by technocrat Fayez al-Sarraj, have raised hopes. Perhaps a two-year conflict that has divided the country between two rival parliaments and governments, each allied with armed actors, will finally be brought to an end and Libya's stalled transition resumed.