Candidates for Libya's first national election will have 18 days to campaign from June 18 until July 5 ahead of July 7 polls to choose a national assembly. During his 42-year rule Gaddafi banned elections calling them bourgeois and anti-democratic. The UN envoy for Libya said, ‘In a post-conflict situation it would be unrealistic to believe there would be no security problems, but I am encouraged that there were no serious security incidents around voter registration.’ However gun battles raged on Monday between fighters supporting the revolution and former Gaddafi loyalists, killing 60+ people. Elsewhere on Sunday troops imposed a ceasefire as fighting spilled into a seventh day. Other clashes this month centred on the southern city of Kufra and in the Nafusa mountain region west of the capital Tripoli. Libya has also witnessed a series of attacks on Western targets in recent weeks, mostly in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Pray: for fair and peaceful campaigning and elections that enable Libya to have the future God purposed for them. (Pr.11:3)

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