Libya

November 2008 | Ratings Update

Rioting and fighting has spread from southern Libya to the second city of Benghazi, and has so far left 11 people dead, according to reports in London-based Al-Sharq al-Awsat. The newspaper claimed that fighting had initially broken out between the Tabu tribe and local security forces in an oasis town near Kufrah, in south-eastern Libya.

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