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UN’s Libya envoy resigns citing no hope for political progress

Libya is still riven by conflict and civil war over a decade after the 2011 overthrow of longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi [File: Esam Omran al-Fetori/Reuters]

The UN’s special envoy for Libya says he is his resigning as the world body cannot successfully support the country’s political transition when its leaders put their own interests above finding a solution.

“I tendered my resignation to the secretary-general,” Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily told reporters on Tuesday after briefing the Security Council on the situation in the North African country.

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