In an article published on 3 May with Atlantic Council, Karim Mezran analyses the implication of General Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli. For Mezran, the future for Libya is likely to take the shape of a partition of a sort. He states:
After the battle sorts itself out there will be an opportunity for peace talks, but these must happen on a different level than the discussions that produced the Skhirat agreement of December 2015. The difference will consist in understanding the mutated situation on the ground and accepting that to obtain a degree of peace and stability the two parts of the country will have to be ruled according to the conditions that have evolved in the last few weeks.
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