Members of Libya's Presidential Council reached Tripoli today, defying opposition attempts to keep them out of the city as they prepare the ground for a U.N.-backed unity government whose ministers they nominated. Seven members of the Council including Fayez Seraj, its head and the new government's prime minister, arrived by boat from Tunisia at Tripoli's Abusita naval amid tight security, a Reuters reporter witnessed. A separate self-declared government also based in Tripoli and armed groups that back it have warned the Council and the unity government not to travel to the capital. Tripoli's airspace was closed for several hours on Sunday and Monday, a move the Council said was designed to prevent it from reaching Libya. Seraj told Reuters that the council members had travelled in a Libyan navy vessel from the Tunisian port of Sfax, a 12-hour journey. "There are challenges ahead of us, including uniting Libyans and healing divisions," he said after arriving. "Young people are the ones we must bet on for Libya's future." The unity government emerged from a U.N.-mediated deal signed in December aimed at ending the country's political impasse, resolving its armed conflict and...
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