Libyan interim PM delays trip to east amid strains on unity plan


  • World
  • Monday, 26 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: Libya's Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh attends a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia April 15, 2021. Yuri Kochetkov/Pool via REUTERS

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh will postpone a visit to the country's east that had been planned for Monday to demonstrate his unity government's progress in ending years of division between warring factions.

His spokesman Mohamed Hamouda said in a social media post that the visit had been postponed without giving details.

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