Libya faces new regional security threat

Until now, analyses of Libyan security risk have focused on the large numbers of weapons in circulation and the central government’s inability to impose its authority on unruly local militias, some of which have extreme Islamist agendas. But, following the In Aménas attack in Algeria, Tripoli now also has to develop a strategy in partnership with neighbouring governments, including those in Tunis, Algiers and Cairo, to combat the emerging threat of regionally orchestrated Al-Qaeda attacks.