World leaders bolster troubled Libya ahead of key election

The long-awaited vote, nonetheless, nonetheless faces challenges, together with unresolved points over election legal guidelines and occasional infighting amongst armed teams. Different obstacles embrace the deep rift that is still between the nation’s east and west and the presence of 1000’s of overseas fighters and troops. The U.N. has estimated that there have been a minimum of 20,000 overseas fighters and mercenaries in Libya over the previous few years, together with Russians, Syrians, Turkish, Sudanese, and Chadians.