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Libya will elect an assembly on February 20 to draft a constitution intended to advance transition to democracy. The assembly will also attempt to break with the difficulties and political instability the country faces after the overthrow of Gaddafi more than two years ago

Gunmen attacked the Russian embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on October 2nd, hours after news came out of a Russian woman who had been arrested and accused of killing a Libyan senior military official.

Libya’s south-western region of Fezzan declared itself an autonomous federal province on September 27th. The move came a month after Cyrenaica, in eastern Libya, took a similar step.