Libya has won the right to host the 20th session of the Council of African Ministers of the Environment (AMCEN) in the summer of 2025 and to chair the council for two years, the interim national unity government announced on Wednesday on the sidelines of its participation in the COP29 climate summit in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

The government said on its Facebook page that this success came as a result of relentless efforts by the Ministry of Environment, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through the Department of African Affairs and the Libyan embassies in Azerbaijan and Kenya, which resulted in breaking the deadlock in the selection of the host country, beating out other candidates.