{"id":243897,"date":"2026-09-10T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-un-hails-libya-election-deal-as-security-council-urges-libyans-to-seize-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:23:00","slug":"libya-un-hails-libya-election-deal-as-security-council-urges-libyans-to-seize-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-un-hails-libya-election-deal-as-security-council-urges-libyans-to-seize-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: UN Hails Libya Election Deal As Security Council Urges Libyans to Seize the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/main.un.org\/securitycouncil\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN Security Council<\/a> has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya&#8217;s rival political blocs, calling it &#8220;an important step&#8221; towards the country&#8217;s first national elections in over a decade &#8211; while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Libya&#8217;s rival political camps have agreed on new rules for running the elections commission and holding a vote within two years<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The UN Security Council welcomed the deal and is urging all sides to follow through quickly<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609100002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The UN Security Council has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya&#8217;s rival political blocs, calling it &#8220;an important step&#8221; towards the country&#8217;s first national elections in over a decade &#8211; while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice. Key points Libya&#8217;s rival political camps have agreed on new rules for running the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6158,7012,3119,6952,4711,892,12598,14193,257,4586,7568,254,6810],"class_list":["post-243897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-deal","tag-election","tag-hails","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyans","tag-moment","tag-news","tag-security","tag-seize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243897","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=243897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}