U.N. sponsored talks produced a new interim government for Libya on Friday aimed at resolving a decade of chaos, division and violence by holding national elections later this year. Libyan family watch the elections to choose the new interim government on a TV screen at home in Tajoura suburb of Tripoli, Libya February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed Mohammed al-Menfi, a former diplomat from Benghazi, will head a three-man presidency council, while Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, from the western city of Misrata, will head the government as prime minister. Libya has been engulfed in chaos since a NATO-backed intervention ended Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule in 2011 and has been split since 2014 between warring administrations backed by foreign powers in the west and east. However, with many factions in the country afraid to surrender influence they already hold, and with foreign powers invested in local allies, the new government […]