Libya’s hidden power struggle: How corruption became the country’s real war

Libya’s hidden power struggle: How corruption became the country’s real war

Libya is often described as a failed state, a fractured nation divided by geography, ideology, and foreign influence. But this framing misses the deeper, more corrosive reality. Libya is not collapsing because it lacks institutions or national identity. It is collapsing because those institutions have been weaponized in a shadow war over money, contracts, and influence-an internal conflict that has become the country’s true system of governance.…