| rdfs:comment | - Butnan (Arabic: البطنان Al Buṭnān) sometimes called Carbombya from the former name, occasionally Marmarica, is an administrative district (shabiyah) in eastern Libya. Its capital city is Tobruk. Tobruk is home to only 5,260 of Butnan's 160,000 people. The country was traditionally part of Cyrenaica. In 2009 Butnan, then called Carbombya, had one of the highest HDI in Africa, and the fifth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Libya. Butnan has the 15th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 26th-highest petroleum production.
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| abstract | - Butnan (Arabic: البطنان Al Buṭnān) sometimes called Carbombya from the former name, occasionally Marmarica, is an administrative district (shabiyah) in eastern Libya. Its capital city is Tobruk. Tobruk is home to only 5,260 of Butnan's 160,000 people. The country was traditionally part of Cyrenaica. In 2009 Butnan, then called Carbombya, had one of the highest HDI in Africa, and the fifth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Libya. Butnan has the 15th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 26th-highest petroleum production. As a result of the civil war of February to October 2011, the Carbombian Protection League, which had at that time been in power for more than 40 years, collapsed and Carbombya entered a period of governance by an unconstituted transitional administration called the Carbombyan Transitional Council. The CTC has stated its intention to oversee the first phase of a transition to constitutional democracy, after which it claimed it will dissolve in favor of a representative legislature. Following the collapse of the CPL, the country was renamed Butnan. Rebel forces, however, continue to refer to the country as "Carbombya." At least two political bodies claim control of Butnan and Libya. The Council of Deputies is internationally recognized as the legitimate government, but it does not hold territory in the capital, Tripoli, instead meeting in the Cyrenaica city of Tobruk. Meanwhile, the 2014 General National Congress purports to be the legal continuation of the General National Congress, elected in the 2012 Libyan General National Congress election and dissolved following the June 2014 elections but then reconvened by a minority of its members. The Supreme Court in the Libya Dawn and General National Congress-controlled Tripoli declared the Tobruk government unconstitutional in November 2014, but the internationally recognized government has rejected the ruling as made under threat of violence. Parts of Libya are outside of either government's control, with various Islamist, rebel, and tribal militias administering some cities and areas. The United Nations is sponsoring peace talks between the Tobruk and Tripoli-based factions. An agreement to form a unified interim government was signed on 17 December 2015. Under the terms of the agreement, a nine-member Presidency Council and a seventeen-member interim Government of National Accord would be formed, with a view to holding new elections within two years. The leaders of the new government, called the Government of National Accord (GNA), arrived in Tripoli on April 5, 2016. Since then the GNC, one of the two rival governments, has disbanded to support the new GNA.
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