{"id":4769,"date":"2014-08-11T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2014-08-11T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:39:23","slug":"is-libya-a-failed-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/is-libya-a-failed-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Libya a failed state?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected house of representatives which replaced the general national congress, has been holding sessions in the eastern city of Tobruk, far from the clashes in Libya&#8217;s two main cities, and has called for a unity government.<\/p>\n<p>Factions with Islamic agenda have rejected the sessions held in Tobruk as unconstitutional. Those factions were rejected in the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya&#8217;s fragile government has been unable to impose authority on groups of former rebels who refuse to disband and are allied with competing political factions battling for post-war dominance.<\/p>\n<p>A UN delegation held talks in Tripoli on Friday to try to broker a ceasefire between armed factions that have turned the Libyan capital and Benghazi into battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p>But can the UN alone secure a peace deal in Libya? Or is international intervention needed?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/insidestory\/2014\/08\/libya-failed-state-2014810142336360658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected house of representatives which replaced the general national congress, has been holding sessions in the eastern city of Tobruk, far from the clashes in Libya&#8217;s two main cities, and has called for a unity government. Factions with Islamic agenda have rejected the sessions held in Tobruk as unconstitutional. Those factions were rejected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,893,3525,3526,4711,892,2687,257,4694,254,897,3527],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benghazi","tag-failed-state","tag-islamic-agenda","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-un-delegation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}