Since , the North African country, a major oil producer, has been divided between two governments, one in the east and another in the west, each backed by a vast array of militias.
In April , Khalifa Haftar, a renegade military commander allied with the eastern government, launched an offensive to seize the capital, Tripoli. His campaign failed after 14 months of fighting and last October, the UN convinced both parties to sign a ceasefire agreement and embark on a political dialogue. In lieu of a list dominated by familiar faces, including Bashagha, known for his anti-corruption rhetoric, a combination of relatively obscure names prevailed.
A brief look at their past itineraries helps avoid oversimplifications. Because he is a strategic backer of his first cousin and brother-in-law Abd al-Hamid, Ali matters. A geography teacher by trade, he was mayor of Misrata in the s. Over the years, his efficacy as a shrewd administrator earned him a special proximity to the then-Libyan autocrat. The latter, in , made him the head of the Organisation for Development of Administrative Centres ODAC , a state-owned entity overseeing infrastructure development across the North African country.
The result was exceptional prosperity. His responsibilities may have included overseeing the kickbacks and other under-the-radar schemes associated with them, although no hard proof exists.
In those times of plenty that preceded the popular revolt against Gaddafi, the Dbeibahs also built a business connection with an architect by the name of Nadia Rifaat, married to another architect from Tripoli: Fayez al-Serraj, the current UN -recognized president and prime minister of Libya. In that capacity, she commissioned much construction work from the Dbeibahs.
During the same busy decade, Muammar Gaddafi, in a bid to present his son Saif al-Islam as a potential successor, let him project the image of a modern and tolerant reformer.
Qatar has harboured and propped up Sallabi since ; he now spends part of his time in Istanbul. When the February uprisings erupted, Ali Dbeibah was abroad and hesitated for a few weeks as to which side to join. The proclaimed thinking was to incentivise the Turks into sticking with Gaddafi by accelerating payments on existing contracts. During a long, harrowing siege at the hands of loyalist forces, the city received aid from Qatar in the form of weapons and humanitarian supplies shipped via the eastern city of Benghazi and coordinated by Sallabi.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is wanted by an international court for war crimes and is rarely seen in public archive photo. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
View original tweet on Twitter. You may also be interested in:. Who is Saif al-Islam Gaddafi? The Gaddafi family tree A quick guide to Libya. The voting took place under the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum to choose the three-person Presidency Council for the interim government during a five-day meeting spearheaded by the UN Support Mission in Libya.
As none of the lists reached this threshold in the first round, a second-round was held to vote on the two lists which obtain the highest number of votes in the first round. Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of Gaddafi in
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