PROTESTERS forced Libya’s largest oil field to suspend production on Sunday, the country’s state-run oil company admitted.
Local media reported that residents of the desert town of Ubari, about 590 miles south of the capital Tripoli, shut down the field to protest fuel shortages.
The protesters are also calling for rehabilitating infrastructure and repairing roads in the south-western region of Fezzan, one of the historic three provinces of Libya.
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE


