Libya’s United Nations-backed government launched a new peace initiative this week. The country has been riven by divisions since a revolution in 2011 toppled its longtime dictator Muammar al–Qaddafi. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Jonathan Winer (@JonathanMaWiner), a scholar at the Middle East Institute and former United States Special Envoy for Libya during the Obama administration.
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