30/03/2016
Head of UN-backed government sails to Libyan capital
TRIPOLI, Libya ? The head of a U.N.-brokered Libyan unity government arrived in the capital by sea Wednesday to set up a temporary seat of power in a naval base despite threats from competing factions, which prevented him from arriving by air. Western nations view the unity government as the best hope for ending Libya's chaos and uniting all factions against an increasingly powerful Islamic State affiliate, which has seized the central city of Sirte. But factions within two other rival Libyan governments, one of which is based in Tripoli, are opposed to the U.N.-backed body. Fayez Serraj sailed in from neighboring Tunisia aboard a Libyan vessel, according to the unity government's website,...
