ArrowRight There’s plenty of blame to go around in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster in eastern Libya. “Between 2011 and 2014, there were already concerns about the state of Libyan infrastructure,” Mary Fitzgerald, a Libya expert at the Middle East Institute, told my colleagues. Political elites, whether in Tripoli or eastern Libya, haven’t prioritized the huge infrastructural challenges Libya faces.”Libya’s feuding factions and fractured polity laid the groundwork for the devastation that followed. Libyan social media “is already rife with criticism of European governments,” noted Tarek Megerisi of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “But for Libya’s political players … this is all just another episode in the struggle for money and power.”
