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Libya Fast Facts Here’s some background information about Libya, an oil-rich country in North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt,Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan. About Libya Area: 1,759,540 square kilometers (slightly larger than Alaska) Population: 7,017,224 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 25.8 years Capital: Tripoli Ethnic groups: Berber and Arab 97%, other 3% (includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians and Tunisians) Religion: Sunni Muslim 96.6%, other is 3.4% Unemployment: 30% (2004 est.) Colonel Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya from 1969 to ...

By Ambassador Anil Trigunayat. 21 January 2021: A wasted decade is the story of Libya and apathy of an interventionist but irresponsible international community to put it mildly. Arab Spring that started in Tunisia also called “Jasmine Revolution’ left the failing and falling regimes in its wake. The hapless and more disgruntled people are trying to cope with fractured socio-economic fabric as political stability has become a distant goal. Libya faced the worst due to sheer negligence and lack of planning on the part of those countries that had engineered the UN Resolutions and invoked â...