Polarization, Security Issues Could Spark Crisis in Libya

Deteriorating security and rising political polarization in Libya has left some analysts worrying that Libya may be on the verge of breakdown.  Their sense of pending crisis only worsened this week when more than a third of Libya’s fractious parliamentarians tabled a motion of no confidence in the country’s beleaguered Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.   The move against Zeidan, a former human rights lawyer, came just days after Libya’s national congress voted on December 23 to extend...

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