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Libya's parliament names new PM, sparking another challenge for unity government

Libya’s former interior minister Fathi Bashagha in Tunis, Tunisia, March 1, 2020. © Zoubeir Souissi, Reuters

Libya found itself with two prime ministers Thursday, after its parliament named a rival to replace the existing unity government’s chief Abdulhamid Dbeibah, threatening a new power struggle in the war-torn nation.

The House of Representatives, based in Libya’s east, “unanimously approved Fathi Bashagha to head the government,” the parliament’s spokesman Abdullah Bliheg said in a tweet.

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