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The town of Tawergha, as our teams found on a recent visit, has been completely levelled. Stabilisation in Libya is about more than elections and withdrawal of foreign fighters (Photo: Norwegian Refugee Council)

What's missing from agenda for Berlin's Libya conference?

On Wednesday (23 June), world leaders will gather in Berlin, co-hosted by Germany and the United Nations, with the newly-formed Libyan Government of National Unity, to take stock of commitments to advance peace efforts in a country that has been mired by instability for more than a decade.

With the country poised to hold its first national elections in seven years this December, there is an eagerness to move towards what Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister, has called the "sustaina...

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The town of Tawergha, as our teams found on a recent visit, has been completely levelled. Stabilisation in Libya is about more than elections and withdrawal of foreign fighters (Photo: Norwegian Refugee Council)

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Dax Bennett Roque is country director in Libya for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

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