Coronavirus in Libya: everything that could go wrong is going wrong

Disinfecting the streets in Libya

The UN’s latest report on the coronavirus situation in Libya makes grim reading. Just about everything that could go wrong is going wrong. None of it is helped by the ongoing conflict between the UN-backed Government of National Unity (GNA) in Tripoli and Field Marshall Haftar’s forces based in the east of the country, plus the existence of numerous lawless militias.