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Mahmoud Jibril, former head of Libya’s 2011 revolution’s Executive Office and NFA head, dies of Coronavirus complications in Cairo hospital today

bySami Zaptia
April 6, 2020
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Mahmoud Jibril, former head of Libya’s 2011 revolution’s Executive Office and NFA head, dies of Coronavirus complications in Cairo hospital today

Mahmoud Jibril, Libya's first post-Qaddafi era head of government, died in Cairo today as a result of Coronavirus complications (Photo: NFA).

By Sami Zaptia.

Mahmoud Jibril, Libya’s first post-Qaddafi era head of government, died in Cairo today as a result of Coronavirus complications (Photo: NFA).

London, 5 April 2020:

Mahmoud Jibril, former head of Libya’s 2011 anti-Qaddafi revolution Executive Office and in 2014 head of the National Forces Alliance (NFA), died today in a Cairo Hospital from Coronavirus (Covid-19).

The NFA had announced on 26 March that Jibril had contracted the virus but was stable. He had had a heart condition.

The internationally recognized Libyan Prime Minister, Faiez Serraj, the head of Libya’s internationally recognized parliament (the House of Representatives), Ageela Saleh, and the head of the High State Council (HSC), Khaled Mishri, all paid their condolences.

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Born in Benghazi in 1952, he had received a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Cairo University in 1975, a master’s degree in political science from Pittsburgh University, Pennsylvania, USA in 1980, and a Ph.D. in strategic planning at the same university in 1984.

Jibril took over the Executive Office of the National Transitional Council (NTC) following the uprising against the Qaddafi regime in Libya’s 2011 17 February revolution – part of the region’s Arab Spring revolutions.

During the Qaddafi era, Jibril first headed Libya’s National Planning Council and then the Economic Development Board. He was associated with the so-called reformers at the time led by Saif-Al-Islam Qaddafi.

Jibril went on to lead the National Forces Alliance, a coalition of mostly ‘‘liberal’’ Libyan parties and NGOs, established in 2012 in the run-up to the country’s first post-Qaddafi democratic parliamentary elections to the General National Congress (GNC). Despite winning the most seats of any party (39 out of 80 seats in the seats reserved for parties), the NFA did not muster an overall majority in the GNC.

Analysts say Jibril and the NFA managed to somehow squander a historical opportunity to push Libya forward as it was outmanoeuvred by a combination of militias and Islamists. His detractors always held the fact that he was from the Wirfalla tribe and the fact that he had worked with the Qaddafi regime against him. His association with the Zintan militias later on also worked against him in the long run.

The NFA was transformed into a political party in February last year.

Tags: corona virus coronavirus Covid 19featuredGNC General National CongressMahmoud JibrilNFA National Forces AllianceNTC National Transitional CouncilQaddafi

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