Who should have power over the capital, Tripoli. Where is now the so-called National samförståndsregeringen (GNA). It is the government that is recognised by the UN and the EU makes agreements about migranttrafiken with.
But the last few days, the warlord Khalifa Haftar ordered their troops to move closer to Tripoli. The 75-year-old Haftar is an experienced maktspelare who backed up the former envåldshärskaren Muammar Gaddafi when he took power in Libya in a coup in 1969. But at the end of the 1980s, Haftar fell out of favor with Qaddafi when he led an unsuccessful campaign against the neighboring country of Chad. Haftar fled to the united states, but returned to Libya when Qaddafi was overthrown in 2011.
Samförståndsregeringen to get the support of the united nations, however, not military – and of Turkey, Qatar and several regional militias, among them the islamists.
Khalifa Haftars ”Libyan National Army” have the support of, among others, Egypt, the United arab Emirates, Russia, and the clans and the militias.
It is unclear whether Haftar will to make reality of their threats to capture Tripoli. Most analysts believe that his maneuver is more of a threat in order to get a better negotiating position if there will be new UN-led talks between the rival factions.
Libya is a country where institutions such as banks, the distribution of goods and the legal system works bad or not at all, and it depends mainly on the conflict that lasted for over eight years now.
another reason for the difficult situation is that Libya had so little to build on after Qaddafi – he ran the country like a business 42 years and bet the most on the megalomaniac projects and to enrich his family.
