Posted on 09/26/2015 4:08:27 AM PDT by fella
The UN wants the two governments to merge and then use their combined forces to deal with ISIL and other groups threatening the economy (especially oil shipments) and the country in general. The UN is unlikely to completely give up on Libya if the deadline is ignored and the two rival governments know it. The main motivation the two governments have to merge is the growing likelihood that there will soon be mass starvation even more chaos, death and people fleeing the country. That’s because only about 20 percent of the normal (pre-2011 revolution) oil shipments are being made. Libya is running out of cash and options. The violence since 2011 has left over 32,000 dead and over a third of the population has fled the country,
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