Libyan candidates talk and militias deploy as crisis deepens

Libya’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday as some presidential candidates met in Benghazi to discuss how to tackle a collapsing electoral process that was meant to help end a decade of violence and chaos. The meeting is the most prominent of several rounds of backroom talks over recent days between candidates, factions and foreign powers about delaying the vote and whether an interim government can meanwhile continue in power. Rival armed groups mobilised in Tripoli early on Tuesday, closing roads in the south of the capital, with schools phoning parents to pick up their children. The presi…

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