Why is Libya split into two rival governments?
Libya has been split between rival governments in the east and west for around a decade.
The country was under foreign control for centuries until it gained independence in 1951 and came under the control of dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi in 1969.
He ruled autocratically until he was toppled and killed in 2011 – in a rebellion assisted by Western military intervention.
In 2014, renewed fighting broke out, with Libya split between two administrations – one based in the east, and one in the west in the capital Tripoli.
The two sides signed a ceasefire in 2020, but political rivalries continue.
In 2021, a Government of National Unity was formed in Tripoli with Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh as the internationally recognised prime minister, but the following year the eastern-based parliament formed a rival – and rather similarly named – Government of National Stability.
Source: BBC