The United Nations has spent over a decade in Libya doing one thing consistently: failing. It has failed to broker elections, failed to unify rival governments, and failed to prevent the country from becoming a playground for Russian mercenaries, Turkish proxies, and transnational criminal networks. Now it is failing in a new and particularly consequential way. This week, representatives of Libya’s Amazigh, Tuareg, and Tebu communities issued a formal declaration stating they have lost all confidence in the UN Support Mission in Libya, rejected the outputs of the so-called 4 4 committee, and threatened to boycott any elections held under the current framework. The UN’s response has been silence. That silence is not neutrality. It is a choice, and it is building the conditions for Libya’s next war.

The 4 4 committee is the UN’s latest attempt to break the deadlock between Libya’s two rival legislative bodies, the Tripoli-based High State Council and the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, which have failed to agree on a constitutional pathway to elections since 2021. The committee’s mandate is sweeping: it is tasked with drafting the legal and constitutional framework governing presidential candidacy conditions, electoral timing, and the composition of Libya’s national election commission. These are not procedural technicalities. They are the foundational rules that will determine........

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