{"id":205221,"date":"2025-08-22T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-security-council-urged-to-back-popular-yearning-for-national-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:07:39","slug":"libya-security-council-urged-to-back-popular-yearning-for-national-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-security-council-urged-to-back-popular-yearning-for-national-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Security Council Urged to Back Popular &#8216;Yearning&#8217; for National Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Recent elections in Libya are a sure sign of the people&#8217;s desire to choose their own representatives, the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative for the country said in the Security Council on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Hannah Tetteh, who also heads the UN Mission in Libya (<a href=\"https:\/\/unsmil.unmissions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNSMIL<\/a>), briefed ambassadors in the wake of municipal council elections last week and outlined a proposed roadmap to general elections, which should have been held way back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;<strong>The Libyan people look to this esteemed Council for&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220071.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent elections in Libya are a sure sign of the people&#8217;s desire to choose their own representatives, the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative for the country said in the Security Council on Thursday. Hannah Tetteh, who also heads the UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefed ambassadors in the wake of municipal council elections last week and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671235:6a3c86b396fd510f0d3972ab56a790a6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6158,821,4711,892,6687,257,11271,4586,254,6206,52176],"class_list":["post-205221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-elections","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-yearning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671235:6a3c86b396fd510f0d3972ab56a790a6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}