Libya is still searching for stability a decade after the end of Muammar Gaddafi

A new interim government looking to create a path towards elections marks the latest attempt to unite a country beset by conflict, writes Kim Sengupta

Recent meetings in Geneva are a step forward (Reuters)

Efforts towards forming a united government in Libya are once again underway, on the tenth anniversary of the revolution which led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi amid declarations of a free and democratic future after four decades of dictatorship.

There have been several attempts since then to establish a national administration in the years of strife which followed – and it is not certain that this new one will last until the end of the year when elections are due to take place. But the move has supposedly accepted by the many rival factions.

Dozens of tribal elders, civic society activists, and academics met Mohammed Younes Menfi, the president of the interim administration, in Benghazi at the end of last week to start the process, which will continue with the setting up of a cabinet. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has been installed as interim prime minister.