A/HRC/40/46 situation deteriorated further amid the breakdown of public services, including regular water and power cuts. 9. In August, the Libyan National Army consolidated its control over eastern Libya, including most of the city of Derna, following weeks of fierce fighting that erupted in May. 1 In June, the Libyan National Army countered an offensive by armed groups to seize control of the oil crescent area. Throughout 2018, it also continued to increase its presence in southern Libya. 10. In 2018, groups pledging allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out several deadly attacks in Tripoli and other regions, including Ajdabiya, Jufra, Kufra and Zliten. On 2 May, such groups claimed responsibility for an attack on the High National Election Commission headquarters in Tripoli which left at least 12 men and 1 woman dead and 6 others injured. On 10 September, two people died and six were injured in another complex attack on the Tripoli headquarters of the National Oil Corporation. 11. After over a year of relative calm in Tripoli, fierce fighting broke out on 26 August when armed groups from outside the capital vied to wrest control from powerful Tripolibased armed groups and increase pressure on the Presidency Council. A ceasefire agreement between parties to the conflict, reached under the auspices of UNSMIL on 4 September and supplemented by a consolidation agreement on 9 September, brought a temporary lull in the fighting, which subsided once more at the end of September when a reconciliation agreement was reached between Tripoli-based and Tarhuna-based armed groups. 12. The violence confirmed the fragility of the Presidency Council and the urgent need for the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of armed groups. On 16 September, the Presidency Council established a committee mandated to propose measures to secure the capital and transfer control of critical infrastructure and other strategic locations from armed groups to national police, army and other security institutions. 13. OHCHR, through the UNSMIL Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Division, continued to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in Libya, including through a presence in Tripoli and occasional missions to other parts of the country. UNSMIL/OHCHR engaged in regular dialogue with the authorities, armed groups, civil society and other stakeholders in Libya. Despite challenges due to the unpredictable security environment, restricted access to certain parts of Libya and political polarization, UNSMIL continued its efforts to provide technical support and capacity-building to key government institutions and civil society organizations in Tripoli or Tunis. 14. The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons conducted a visit to Libya between 25 and 31 January 2018. In her report (A/HRC/38/39/Add.2), presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-eighth session, she expressed concerns about the absence of protection mechanisms and durable solutions and about impunity for human rights violations committed against internally displaced persons. She commended the Government’s political will to address their situation, calling for the development of a comprehensive legal and policy road map in line with international law and standards to protect and assist them. Little progress has been made in addressing her recommendations. The Government has yet to agree to the requests for visits made in 2018 by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in line with Libya’s standing invitation to all special procedures of the Council. 1 The city had previously been controlled by the Derna Mujahidin Shura Council, a coalition of Islamist-leaning armed groups who, in 2015, ousted groups that had pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 3