The internationally recognized government’s interior minister, Imad Trabelsi, announced that, following protracted talks, a deal had been reached for regular forces to patrol Tripoli.
He informed the media that the only people stationed there would be criminal investigators, city officials, and emergency police.
The agreement follows several fatal conflicts that have occurred in the city in recent months.
Numerous armed factions that arose following Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow in 2011 have ravaged Libya.
A large portion of the nation has been lawless and anarchic ever since the long-standing dictator was killed after a series of armed uprisings that left a security void.
Currently, Libya is split between an administration in the east headed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar and an internationally recognized government in the west led by interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in Tripoli.
During a press conference, Mr. Trabelsi declared that the militia’s “place is in their headquarters” going forward and that the Libyan government “will use them only in exceptional circumstances for specific missions”.
He stated that other cities would follow after they left the capital and that there “will be no more checkpoints and no more armed groups” on the roads.
