Libya Lawmakers Approve First Unified Government Since 2014

  • Step could stabilize oil production in war-ravaged OPEC member
  • Government will lead the nation until elections in December
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Libyan lawmakers approved the country’s first unified government in about seven years, overcoming a major hurdle in a fragile political reconciliation that’s supposed to end almost a decade of conflict.

Lawmakers overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah’s proposed transitional administration during a third joint session of the North African nation’s two rival assemblies.