The new UN-backed interim Libyan unity government was sworn in in the eastern city of Tobruk last night.
New Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and his three-member presidential council are tasked with organising elections in December this year that will end a decade of conflict and instability in Libya.
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the previous UN-backed government and rebel leader General Haftar’s forces have been vying for influence across the country, with the resulting power vacuum allowing conflict and crime to thrive.