Libya’s prime minster rejects foreign minister’s suspension

Row deepens as Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh dismisses president's decision to suspend Najla El-Mangoush

Libya's chronic political instability has been exposed, with the country's foreign minister, Najla El-Mangoush, suspended from office and banned from leaving the country by the president, only for the disciplinary action to be rejected by the prime minister.

The power struggle comes days before a major conference in Paris at which world powers hope to speed up the departure of foreign mercenaries and troops from Libya ahead of planned December presidential and parliamentary elections, which are hanging in the balance.