Guardian News published this video item, entitled “Libyan protesters storm and set fire to parliament building in Tobruk” – below is their description.
Protesters have stormed the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk, Libya. They are accusing the parliament of treason and stealing public funds, and broke into the building and set fire to parts of it as armed forces withdrew. Protests over chronic power cuts brought demonstrators onto the streets of several cities, as the demonstrators voice their anger at failures that have made life intolerable during the sweltering summer months.
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In This Story: Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.
The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. Parts of Libya are currently split between rival Tobruk and Tripoli-based governments, as well as various tribal and Islamist militias.
Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country’s official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.
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