Day: October 8, 2026

Al-Salhin Abdulnabi Al-Obeidi is now the new speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, replacing Aguila Saleh after more than 12 years in the post. His election marks a change at the top of Libya’s eastern-based parliament, but Al-Obeidi is not a newcomer to the institution or to the political networks around it. The civil engineer…

Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives has removed Aguila Saleh from the position he held for more than a decade, ending one of the longest periods of continuity in the country’s divided political system. Lawmakers elected Al-Salhin Abdul Nabi Al-Obeidi as the new speaker after a series of contentious sessions that exposed growing disagreements over how…