On Sunday, Libyan Prime Minister, Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba assigned several plots of land to the embassies of Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
The area intended for diplomatic offices is located east of Tripoli’s Mitiga International Airport.
This involves 30 thousand square meters for Qatar, and a 40 thousand square meter property in the municipality of Tajoura for the Emirati Embassy. The location details of the Turkish and US embassies have not been published.
According to the same source, the government is coordinating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to allocate land for other foreign embassies.
Libya is politically torn between Fathi Bashagha, who was elected by the Libyan Parliament to lead the country in February, and Dbaiba, who refuses to relinquish power.
Tensions have been rising for months in Libya as the two Prime Ministers vie for power; raising fears of renewed conflict two years after a landmark truce.
Notably, fighting between armed groups took place on the western outskirts of Tripoli late last week. As forces aligned with Dbaiba further consolidated their control over the capital.
The clashes, along with a major pro-Dbaiba group taking over a military headquarters in southern Tripoli, come a week after Libya’s biggest bout of warfare for two years. As several rival factions battled in and around the capital, killing 32 people.
Following last week’s fighting, both Bashagha and Dbaiba visited Turkey.
The United Nations has been pushing the rival parties to organise elections to resolve the legitimacy crisis.