Power-sharing deal reached in Libya by rival parliaments

Politicians from Libya’s rival parliaments have reached a power-sharing agreement, shunning a UN-brokered deal aimed at ending the conflict.

Speaking at a press conference in Tunisia, the internationally recognised government’s representative Ibrahim Amash announced they struck a separate deal with the Islamist government to avoid the “foreign intervention” tainting the UN-sponsored agreement.

The UN deal was drafted by its former envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, who accepted a job last month from the United Arab Emirates, which backs one side of the conflict, casting doubts on the international body’s neutrality.