SKHIRAT, Morocco – Libya’s Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a UN-backed plan aimed at ending the conflict in the North African state.
One of the council’s members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of 13 ministers and five ministers of state had been sent to Libya’s eastern Parliament for approval. But in a sign of continuing divisions over how to bring together Libya’s warring factions, two of the council’s nine members refused for a second time to put their signatures to the proposed government, according to a document posted on the Presidential Council’s Facebook page.
The UN plan under which the unity government has been named was designed to help Libya stabilise and tackle a growing threat from Islamic State militants.
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