Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah addresses lawmakers during the first reunited parliamentarian session on March 9, 2021, in the coastal city of Sirte, east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
Libya's new Government of National Unity will struggle to unify the country after nearly seven years of civil war and as various Libyan stakeholders stoke divisions to protect their interests. The Libyan House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh's new government on March 10 in Sirte after three days of debate and several changes in Dbeibeh's Cabinet. The Tobruk branch of the House of Representatives gave its confidence to the GNU — something it never gave the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord — and GNA Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said after the approval that he was ready to hand over power to the new government. The GNU represents Libya's first unified government since August 2014. A major pillar of the U.N.
