Death on October 20, 2011, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi held Libya with an iron fist, composing with an ethnic, religious and ideological mosaic.
The collapse of his regime created ten years of instability marked by two civil wars.
For six months, the United Nations has been banking on the new government formed in February to restore peace and give new economic impetus to the country.
What have been the main stages of the conflict since the death of Gaddafi?
The country which was one of the richest in Africa entered, after the death of Colonel Gaddafi and the first civil war, in ten years of great instability.
On October 23, 2011, three days after his death, the rebels proclaimed victory in Benghazi (East).
But a division is gradually settling between the east and the west of the country, with in 2014 the partition into two rival parliaments.
The hope of a single assembly that could create a constitution failed, leading to the second civil war.
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In the east, the government of Tobruk, then recognized by the international community, launched offensives
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