On 6 May, Foreign Policy published an article by Nosmot Gbadamosi, titled ‘Can a U.S.-Brokered State Budget Help Unite Libya?'. Gbadamosi speaks to several analysts about the recent US-brokered agreement for the country’s first unified state budget, which they argue is more of a restricted spending agreement and is unlikely to prompt broader unification anytime soon. ‘This isn’t a government agreeing to a budget,” says Libya-Analysis managing director Rhiannon Smith. “This is two distinct political families agreeing that they’re going to limit their spending.”
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