7 years after Gaddafi's fall, Libya into total misery

But for many Libyans there is not much to celebrate in a rich oil country, but where basic services are still missing, while violence and divisions continue to reign, promoting uncertainty and despair, especially among young people. “ > I don't want to wait 42 years, like my father did with Muammar. I will not wait for my youth and my life to be stolen from me, I will jump into the sea with the immigrants, without turning my head back on”, Hamdi ends up in front of his clothing store.

The Consequences of Gaddafi's Fall

Gaddafi's decline in 2011 led to the dissolution of the security device, and today Libya has been destroyed by power wars fought in total impunity by many militant groups but also by dozens of tribes, which are a key component of Libyan society. Using anarchy, the Islamic State group (ISIS) took root in the country, occupying Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte for several months before being expelled in December 2016. Though weakened, Caliphus Abu Bakr el Baghdad are still in the wilderness and pose a constant threat.

Imigration

Meanwhile, the North African country has also become a centre for illegal immigration, where hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa, in an effort to cross the Mediterranean into Europe, are systematically exploited and tortured. On the political level, two authorities are fighting for power and no one has managed to bring a real order into the parts of the territory that he claims to control. The government of the National Agreement (GNA), issued by a UN-backed agreement at the end of 2015, is based in Tripoli. While a rival authority has moved to the eastern part of the country, mainly under the control of an army headed by General Khalifa Haftar.

Violence

Meanwhile, violence and lack of security have become the main problem for Libyans in their daily lives. Continued power outages and long lines in front of banks often lacking liquidity should be added. While the country's main source, the oil industry, hit hard by violence, tries to recover production levels achieved under Gaddafi, approximately 1.6 million barrels a day.

Democraticity - A Long, Wild Process

For Federica Saini Fasanottin, of the Brookings Institute in Washington, democratisation processes are as history tells us always long, fierce and very difficult. The creation of a nation can be a matter of decades, even centuries in some cases”, has been said of France Presse. Any attempt to restore order faces the controversy of a multiethnic armed groups whose alliances differ on the day's interests. And so armed groups prevented thousands of Taowargas (in the West) from returning to their homes, from which they had been deported in 2011 because they had supported the fallen regime.

Union Target

For the UN envoy, Ghassan Salaamé, to bring order to Libya “must first establish a legitimate state, accepted by all”. To achieve that goal, Salamé has scheduled presidential and legislative elections in 2018. But the road is still long, the UN envoy acknowledges.

However, some experts are skeptical about the success of these elections, and there are even those who believe they can further complicate the situation. Presented by his supporters as a homeland savior and accused by his opponents of seeking the restoration of the dictatorship, Haftar seeks to be proposed as the only option and still tries to vigorously extend his control over the expanded state. The Islamists' black cat, the strong man of Crenaica, supported by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, pushed by the international community in the end, announced that it would not oppose the election's development, but without specifying whether it will participate. / Source: Diariodelweb World.al