Libya’s official Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni yesterday criticised the US, UK and EU for failing to supply arms to his forces as they battle those of a rival government.
The tough comments come a day after Libya's elected parliament, allied to Thinni, suspended its participation in UN-sponsored talks to try to end the power struggle between the two rival administrations and assemblies.
Thinni has been confined to a rump state in the east since a rival faction called Libya Dawn seized the capital Tripoli last year, reinstating an old assembly known as the GNC and setting up a rival government.
Thinni and the House of Representatives, also based in the east, enjoy the recognition of world powers but anti-Western sentiment has been building up. Many normal people demand military support in the power struggle with Tripoli, four years after the Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.