A week of negotiations to arrange elections in Libya ended without a deal on Tuesday, the UN said.
Lawmakers from rival factions met in Egypt for talks on constitutional and legislative arrangements for elections.
Twelve deputies from Libya's eastern parliament and another 12 from the High Council of State, an advisory body in the capital Tripoli, took part in the discussions.
UN special adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams said the groups agreed to reconvene after Eid Al Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. The holiday falls in the first week of May.
The talks were held as Libya slips slowly back into the chaos and violence that prevailed for most of the past decade after a short-lived respite.
In February, the House of Representatives in the east named a new prime minister, former interior minister Fathi Bashagha, to lead an interim government.
MPs in the House said the mandate of interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who is in Tripoli, expired when an election scheduled for December failed to take place.
But Mr Dbeibah has rejected efforts to replace his administration and said he would only hand over power to an elected government.
With the two leaders sticking to their positions, signs of turmoil grew and there were reports of heavily armed militias in the west, including Tripoli.
Tribal leaders and protesters in the south also shut down oil centres, including Libya's largest oilfield, and called for Mr Dbeibah to step down.
The region is controlled by forces led from the east by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
The developments have raised fears that fighting could return to Libya after a period of relative calm since warring parties signed a UN-brokered ceasefire in 2020.
Libya’s descent into lawlessness began in 2011 when a popular uprising toppled longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
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hall of shame
SUNDERLAND 2002-03
No one has ended a Premier League season quite like Sunderland. They lost each of their final 15 games, taking no points after January. They ended up with 19 in total, sacking managers Peter Reid and Howard Wilkinson and losing 3-1 to Charlton when they scored three own goals in eight minutes.
SUNDERLAND 2005-06
Until Derby came along, Sunderland’s total of 15 points was the Premier League’s record low. They made it until May and their final home game before winning at the Stadium of Light while they lost a joint record 29 of their 38 league games.
HUDDERSFIELD 2018-19
Joined Derby as the only team to be relegated in March. No striker scored until January, while only two players got more assists than goalkeeper Jonas Lossl. The mid-season appointment Jan Siewert was to end his time as Huddersfield manager with a 5.3 per cent win rate.
ASTON VILLA 2015-16
Perhaps the most inexplicably bad season, considering they signed Idrissa Gueye and Adama Traore and still only got 17 points. Villa won their first league game, but none of the next 19. They ended an abominable campaign by taking one point from the last 39 available.
FULHAM 2018-19
Terrible in different ways. Fulham’s total of 26 points is not among the lowest ever but they contrived to get relegated after spending over £100 million (Dh457m) in the transfer market. Much of it went on defenders but they only kept two clean sheets in their first 33 games.
LA LIGA: Sporting Gijon, 13 points in 1997-98.
BUNDESLIGA: Tasmania Berlin, 10 points in 1965-66
