Libya PM names new cabinet after protests


Libya's Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur speaks at a news conference in Tripoli December 4, 2011. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's prime minister named 10 new ministers on Sunday to run the country for the next six months, days after he was forced to withdraw his previous cabinet in the face of protests.

The problem of forming a viable government in Libya underscores the huge challenges facing the major oil and gas exporter as it seeks to emerge from the civil war that toppled Muammar Gaddafi last year.

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