TRIPOLI, LIBYA - Libyans marked 10 years Wednesday since the start of the uprising that toppled longtime ruler Moamer Kadhafi, ending a long-lived dictatorship but throwing the country into a decade of violent lawlessness. Residents of Zawiya, near the capital Tripoli in the west, marched on the city center where dozens of rebel fighters were executed in 2011 after being surrounded by Kadhafi's forces. On the international level, many of the foreign forces whose intervention helped fuel the conflict of recent years remain in Libya. "The secretary general stressed the UN's support to Libya's elections, the monitoring of the ceasefire and the need for withdrawal of foreign forces," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Asked if the world body had noticed any start of a withdrawal of foreign forces, Dujarric said the UN was not aware of any pullout.

Source: Ethiopian News February 17, 2021 14:15 UTC